New York Post
There’s no rest for the wicked.
A beloved painted bench – the crown jewel of a quirky gnome-themed garden in Queens embraced by locals for more than a decade – was bizarrely stolen from outside its owners’ home last week.
The iron art piece – inscribed with a quote from poet Charles Bukowski and dubbed “The Gnome Bench” by residents – was lifted from its 15-year-old resting spot in the wee hours of Sept. 1, said Long Island City homeowner and artist Christopher Carlson to The Post. 5
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“It became a weird thing of its own,” Carlson said of the bench, which he initially painted for “fun” – and watched it quickly become a treasured landmark of the neighborhood in its spot on 47th Road near 11th Street.
“The pre-school would pass, and they liked it, so I kept adding [gnomes] to it,”
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