After almost a century in Central Park, a controversial monument honoring the doctor commonly billed as the "father of modern gynecology" will be relocated.

The city's 11-member Public Design Commission voted unanimously to move the statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, where he was buried in 1883. The city Parks Department said the statue will be removed on Tuesday morning.

The Sims statue has stood just outside Central Park on the corner of 5th Avenue and 103rd Street for 84 years. Originally erected in Bryant Park a year after his death in 1883, it was moved to its current spot across the street from the Academy of Medicine in 1934. Critics have called for the statue's removal because of how Sims made his breakthroughs: by conducting surgical experiments on enslaved black women without anesthesia.

The push to remove the statue gained steam in 2017, when Mayor de Blasio called for a review of the city's public monuments. The Sims statue was one of several reviewed by the mayor's commission, alongside the monument honoring Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle and the statue of Theodore Roosevelt at the American Museum of Natural History. When the review was completed earlier this year, the commission determined that most of the monuments just needed new plaques and signs to provide more historical context to the statues. The statue of Sims was the only one that was recommended for relocation.

The Parks Department says the spot won't stay vacant, as the agency is developing plans to commission a new monument to replace Sims. In the meantime, a temporary sign will be placed on the site.