Cuomo’s essential workers memorial being moved after backlash from Battery Park City

The “Circle of Heroes” design includes 19 red maple trees, which Cuomo has said symbolize essential workers including nurses, doctors, other health care workers, transit workers, police officers, EMTs and paramedics, firefighters, correction officers, store employees, National Guard members, government employees, building service workers, utility and communications workers, delivery drivers, teachers, sanitation workers, construction and manufacturing workers, food service workers and hospitality workers.