For years, the “Trinity Root” sat in front of Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan. The work of art by sculptor Steve Tobin was a bronze cast of a remaining stump and root of a 70-year-old sycamore tree ...

Today the Pennsylvania-based sculptor Steve Tobin filed a $1.2-million lawsuit against New York City’s Trinity Church Parish. The suit comes after a long dispute over the church’s removal of Tobin’s ...