First, in 1970, the honor rolls were stolen — bronze plaques listing the 106 fallen World War I soldiers from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn. Then, in 2000, a thief swiped the allegorical bronze figure at the center of the memorial.

Thus the World War I monument, one of 122 across New York City’s five boroughs in the parks department’s collection, stood for years in Saratoga Park as a naked slab of granite.

But as the world commemorates the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War, the city did its part on Wednesday. The parks department unveiled a reconstructed monument based on historical photos, archives and fragments of the original.

At a ceremony to mark the rededication of the monument, relatives of the fallen soldiers, city officials, local historians and residents watched as the gold fabric was pulled away. Cheers went up amid applause and one attendee, Jenny Cooper Nathan, 57, who said her husband died in training in the Navy and who lives a block from the park, exclaimed, “It was empty for so long!”