“Even with Independence Day and then Election Day fast approaching, the most presidential place in New York City at the moment just might be an unexpected one: the work space of the design and fabrication company StudioEIS on the fourth floor of an anonymous-looking building in Dumbo, Brooklyn. There, in one corner, is a nearly completed new sculpture of Abraham Lincoln standing with a horse. In another, a Thomas Jefferson statue bound for Monticello. And down a hallway, an early version of a sitting James Madison that will one day join a statue of his wife, Dolley Madison, and take up residence outside their historic home at Montpelier.”–CityRoom