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The street is best known from the Bobby Womack song ''Across 110th Street'' and from the 1972 Movie Of The Same Title . A statue of , is 25 feet tall, and depicts the Muses—nine nude female Caryatids —supporting a grand piano and Duke Ellington on their heads. SUBWAY STATIONS The elevated IRT Ninth Avenue Line used to reach a great height at its 110th Street station and, according to Douglas (2004), was a popular site for suicide jumpers. In 1927, The New York Times reported that ''"the number of suicides from the 110th Street Station of the Sixth Avenue elevated is ruining the business of the merchants with shops below, according to merchants .... According to spokesperson there were eleven suicides from that station in the past year, and the effect has been such that potential customers prefer to walk a little farther rather than risk seeing a person hurtle from above."'' Today, there are four New York City Subway Stations at 110th Street (from west to east):
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