[DOC] [TLE] The Library Lions | The New York Public Library [PAR]  [DOC] [TLE] The Library Lions | The New York Public Library [PAR] Later, they were known as Lady Astor and Lord Lenox (even though they are both male lions). During the 1930s, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia named them Patience and Fortitude, for the qualities he felt New Yorkers would need to survive the economic depression. [DOC] [TLE] The NYPL Lions: The Lives of Patience and Fortitude | Untapped ... [PAR] Mar 5, 2014 ... The NYPL Lions: The Lives of Patience and Fortitude ... At one point, Fortitude 
became temporarily female, so called Lady Astor and her brother, Lord Lenox. 
During the Great Depression, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia changed... [DOC] [TLE] Getting Reacquainted with the Library Lions, Patience and Fortitude ... [PAR] Mar 6, 2014 ... Some new bar called Patience and Fortitude might be angling for the ... Beaux 
Arts buildings in New York City, the New York Public Library. ... down  Mayor 
Fiorello LaGuardia changed their identities once and for all .... Which explains the 
brief closure and makeshift memorial that now sits outside the gate. [DOC] [TLE] The story behind New York's library lions | Ephemeral New York [PAR] May 16, 2011 ... They were called Leo Astor and Leo Lenox, after two NYPL ... the city, Mayor 
Fiorello LaGuardia declared them to be Patience and Fortitude. [DOC] [TLE] Secrets of the New York Public Library - July 21, 2016 - NewYork.com [PAR] Jul 21, 2016 ... Strolling up the grand steps of the New York Public Library's Main Branch on ... 
The noble lion statues, Patience and Fortitude, and the massive .... feistiest mayor
, Fiorello La Guardia, who gave the two felines the nicknames of... [DOC] [TLE] New York Library to Note Lions' 100th Birthday - The New York Times [PAR] Apr 21, 2011 ... In Honor of a Century of Patience and Fortitude. By ... The lions outside the New 
York Public Library on Fifth Avenue are turning 100. ... During the Depression, 
Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia renamed them for qualities he said... [DOC] [TLE] New York Public Library - Wikipedia [PAR] The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. 
With nearly 53 .... Patience and Fortitude, the "Library Lion" statues, in the 
snowstorm of ... Billings's plan called for a huge reading room on top of seven 
floors of .... The New York Public Library also links to outside resources, such as 
the Bureau... [DOC] [TLE] Carrre & Hastings, The New York Public Library | 19th century ... [PAR] Officially, the name of the library is The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox 
and Tilden Foundations. .... sculpture, beginning most famously with the lions 
reclining atop the steps outside. ... lions were nicknamed Patience and Fortitude (
above) by former New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia during the Great 
Depression. [DOC] [TLE] Bryant Park | Monuments [PAR] The New York Public Library building was designed by John Merven Carrre ... 
Sculptor Edward Clark Potter created the lions, which were carved in pink ... They 
were later nicknamed Patience and Fortitude by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. [DOC] [TLE] New York Architecture Images- New York Public Library [PAR] "Patience" and "Fortitude" : the "Library Lion" statues; New York Public ..... lions 
outside the library are Patience and Fortitude--nicknamed thus Mayor .... In the 
1930s they were nicknamed "Patience" and "Fortitude" by Mayor Fiorello 
LaGuardia... [DOC] [TLE] Patience and Fortitude: Scott Sherman on the Fight to Save the NYPL [PAR] Jun 26, 2015 ... In the 1930s, beloved populist New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia named 
the two lions that stand guard outside the Fifth Avenue... [DOC] [TLE] A couple of literary lions get a subtle sprucing up - latimes [PAR] Nov 19, 2004 ... A pair of famous New York faces recently underwent face-lifts and ... pink-marble 
lions positioned outside the New York Public Library for the last 93 years. ... lions 
with intriguing Mona Lisa-esque smiles were named Fortitude (on the north) and 
Patience (on the south)

Question: It was Mayor LaGuardia who nicknamed the lions outside the New York Public Library Patience & this
Answer: Fortitude