A statue of former President Thomas Jefferson has been removed from New York City Hall after nearly two centuries, the New York Post  reports . As the nation’s third president, whose controversy stemmed from his rumored affair with an enslaved person, Jefferson’s 7-foot, 884-pound statue was hauled off by art handlers on Monday. Marshall Fine Arts, a storage facility located in Deer Park, New York, enlisted the help of workers who spent hours dismantling the statue from its pedestal and replaced the empty area with wooden boards and foam. The mayoral commission ousted the statue from its location due to Jefferson’s ownership of enslaved people during the 19th century. According to Smithsonian magazine, Jefferson owned over 600 enslaved people during his adulthood, but only freed two. Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NY), along with the commission members, voted back in October to relocate the figure as a "long-term loan" to the New York Historical Society, The Hill reports . The commission...