Statue of “Ragtime” Author E.L. Doctorow Arrives in New Rochelle
A new bronze statue of E.L. Doctorow was installed at Huguenot Park on Friday, echoing the bronze statue of Huguenot settler Jacob Leisler that has stood at the base of Broadview Avenue since 1913. Both that statue and Doctorow’s home on Broadview figure in his best-selling novel “Ragtime”, which became a film and an award-winning Broadway musical. The statue is the…