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Brooklynites, wave goodbye to the statue of Abraham Lincoln — it’s moving from its current spot in Prospect Park’s Concert Grove.

The city Parks Department said yesterday in the City Record that it intends to enter into a contract with the nonprofit Prospect Park Alliance to move the bronze, larger-than-life statue to Grand Army Plaza, where it originally stood after it was dedicated in 1869.

It was moved to Concert Grove in 1896.

The move is more than a year down the road — and is part of the ongoing restoration of the park, a spokesman for the Alliance said. Its exact location is yet to be determined.

The statue by Henry Kirke Brown shows Lincoln, wearing a cape and holding a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, with the inscription “Shall be forever free.”

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