Joseph Reginella (born 1971)[1] is a sculptor from Silver Lake, Staten Island.
Described by The New York Times as the "Banksy of monuments", he has created a number of sculptures memorializing fictional events, including when a giant octopus pulled the Staten Island Ferry into the Hudson River in 1962 and when a stampede of elephants crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in 1929.
[5] He designed the memorial to the September 11 attacks at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center.
[5] Since 2015, he has installed 6 sculptures in Battery Park that commemorate made-up historical incidents.
[4] The dates that the fictional events occurred at times to overlap with well known, real historical events; the Brooklyn Bridge elephant stampede occurred on the same day as the Wall Street crash of 1929.