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Senatorska ends at plac Bankowy , formerly plac Dzierzynskiego: the giant statue of its former namesake Felix Dzierzynski, the unloved Polish Bolshevik and founder of the NKVD, was removed in 1990 to public rejoicing. A rather more unassuming-in-size statue of Romantic poet Juliusz Slowacki is set to take its place. On the northeast corner of the square is a tall, silver-looking tower known locally as the Blue Skyscraper, or Blikitny Wiezowiec , that's long been a talking point: built on the former site of the Great Synagogue - and cursed, according to local legend, as a consequence - from its inception in the early 1970s, it took over twenty years to complete this lumbering Yugoslav-financed giant of a project, now the Sony building. The west edge of the increasingly smart-looking square is taken up by a palatial early-nineteenth-century complex designed by Antoni Corazzi, and originally housing Congress Kingdom-era government offices. This grand building has been the seat of the city's administrative authorities since the destruction of the original town hall in 1944. On the southwest corner of the square is the old National Bank building, until recently the official Museum of the Workers' Movement but now taken over by the Kolekcja I. Jana Pawla II .
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