Here it is! One gigantic list of NYC art in parks in all its glory.
To help you find the artworks, we have compiled as much information as we could, but, as you can see, it’s still incomplete. Some of this information might be out of date. But there’s only one way to find out…
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Artwork Name | Category | Description | Borough | Park Name | Location | dimen | materials | sculptor | architect | Web page | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chief Nimham Memorial | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Boulder-like form (cairn) bearing a plaque, on a low base | the Bronx | Van Cortlandt Park | 238th Street and Oneida Avenue | Total H: 6'6" W: 4' D: 4'; Plaque H: 1'6" W: 2' | Fieldstone conglomerate, bronze | https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/VanCortlandtPark/monuments/1120 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Freedom of the Human Spirit | Abstract | Group of two upright figures (heroic scale), one male,one female, supported by three swans in flight, attached to upright spikes, on a circular pedestal | Queens | Flushing Meadows / Corona Park | Court of States (Second Street) near United States Pavillion | Group H: 20' W" 9'10" D: 9'10"; Pedestal H: 2' 2 1/4" Diameter: 10'6" | Bronze, pink granite | Marshall Fredericks | https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/flushing-meadows-corona-park/monuments/554 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Bird Named Goldilocks | Hollowed out tree-stump form with a bird at a "fairy-sized table setting" in the hollow, placed at ground level, with information plaque in pavement in front of sculpture | Staten Island | Clove Lakes Park | Adjacent to the Stonehenge administration building | H: 20"; Overall circumference 38"; Interior depth 8" Plaque: 14" x 10" | Bronze (brown patina) | Ann Marie McDonnell | https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/clove-lakes-park/monuments/1913 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Athena | Allegorical | Standing figure (heroic scale) on pedestal | Queens | Athens Square Park | 30th Avenue between 29th & 30th Streets | Figure H: 7'9"; pedestal H: 4'6" L: 3'4" W: 3'4" (all approximate) | Figure--bronze; pedestal--green granite | Spiro Goggakis | Stamatios P. Lykos, AIA, ASLA | https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/athens-square/monuments/1920 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial | Portrait, Public Servant, Sculpture, Women | Figure (heroic scale) half-seated against a boulder, circular foot stone, earth pedestal encircled by a low wall, concentric pavement, two inscribed pavers, two plaques | Manhattan | Riverside Park | 72nd Street and Riverside Drive (Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Plaza) | Figure H: 7'11" W:2'8½" D: 1'3"; boulder H: 4'1" W: 3'9" D: 2'9"; earth pedestal diameter 37'6"; pavers diameter 4' (approximate); biography plaque H: 1' W: 1'5½"; donor plaque H: 1'10" W: 3'; figure weight: 721 pounds | Figure, lettering on pavers, plaques--bronze; boulder, foot stone--Belfast black granite; low wall and pavers--granite; concentric pavement--bluestone | Penelope Jencks (figure); Michael Middleton Dwyer (boulder and foot stone) | Bruce Kelly/David Varnell | https://www.nycgovparks.org/park-features/riverside-park/virtual-tour/eleanor-roosevelt-monument | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abe Stark Skating Rink | Politcal Figure | Plaque on interior wall | Brooklyn | Abe Stark Skating Rink | Beach W. 19th and Surf Avenue; Boardwalk, left entrance | Aluminum plate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abraham De Peyster | Politcal Figure, Public Servant | Seated figure (over life-size) with integral plinth, on pedestal | Manhattan | Hanover Square Park | North west path of park; Worth Street and Lafayette Street | Figure H: 7'4" W: 4' D: 4'5"; Pedestal H: 8' 11" W: 6'9" D: 7' | Bronze, porphyry granite (polished) | George Edwin Bissell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abraham Lincoln | US President | Standing figure (over life-size) with integral plinth on pedestal | Manhattan | Union Square Park | North end | Figure H: 8'; Pedestal H: 11½' W: 9½' D: 9½' | Bronze, Dix Island, ME granite | Henry Kirke Brown | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abraham Lincoln | US President, Animal: other | Standing figure (over life-size) on integral plinth on pedestal with wreaths and insignia of US Army and Navy at front and rear, and two eagles, one proper left and one proper right | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | Flower Garden | Figure H: 8'6" W: 3' 4" D: 3'4"; Pedestal H: 10'4" W: 7'6" D: 7'6"; Eagles H: 30"; Wreath Diameter: 30" | Figure, wreaths and eagles---bronze; Pedestal--two types of granite | Henry Kirke Brown | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abraham Lincoln | US President, Civil War, Animal: equestrian | Medium relief | Brooklyn | Grand Army Plaza | Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, west pier, inside archway | Bronze | Thomas Eakins; William Rudolph O'Donovan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut | Civil War, War Memorial, Allegorical | Standing figure (over life-size) with integral plinth, on pedestal with extended exedra wings; pedestal has bas-relief of sword in ocean waves; each wing has a life-size bas-relief of seated female figure | Manhattan | Madison Square Park | 25th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues | Figure H: 9'; Pedestal with exedra wings H: 9' W: 17'6" D: 9'6" | Bronze; Coopersberg (Pennyslvania) black granite | Augustus Saint-Gaudens | Stanford White | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Admiral George Dewey Memorial | Portrait, Sculpture, Soldier, War Memorial, Spanish-American War | Plaque with two relief medallions on plinth | Manhattan | Battery Park | Upper Promenade, southwest of Castle Clinton | Plaque H: 3'9" W: 2'8" D: 1"; Plinth H: 4' W: 3'4" D: 2'8" | Bronze, Barre granite (Presbry-Leland Company) | Daniel Chester French (replica medallions based on French's originals) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Adoption of the Constitution | Revolutionary War, Colonial, War Memorial | Plaque on boulder | the Bronx | Van Cortlandt Park | West side of spice garden, Van Cortlandt Mansion, Broadway and 259th Street | H: 8¼" W: 1' | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen | Allegorical, Artist | Portrait statue on pedestal with medallions | Manhattan | Central Park | 5th Avenue at 96th Street | H: 14'11" W: 5'3" D: 4'2" | Bronze, Danish granite | Albert B Thorvaldsen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alexander Lyman Holley | Scientist/Inventor | Bust on a high central stele joined by screens to shorter side steles at right and left, the whole on a plinth resting on a semi-circular step | Manhattan | Washington Square Park | 5th Avenue at Washington Place | Bust H: 3'6"; Central stele H: 9'; Total W: 10'3" D: 3'10" | Bronze, Indiana limestone | John Quincy Adams Ward | Thomas Hastings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alexander von Humboldt | Scientist/Inventor, Explorer | Bust (over life-size) on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | Central Park West and 77th Street | Bust H: 4'3"; overall H: 13' W: 6'10" D: 6' | Bronze, Westerly granite | Gustaf Blaeser | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alfred Lincoln Seligman Fountain | Animal: other | Bear on rock with faun sheltering below, and adjacent plaque | Manhattan | Morningside Park | 114th Street and Morningside Avenue, at the foot of the stairway | H: 8' | Bronze | Edgar Walter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Algernon Sidney Sullivan | Politcal Figure | Stele with fountain bases | the Bronx | Van Cortlandt Park | Boat House | H: 10'2" W: 4'3" D: 4'6" | Deer Island granite, bronze | Jonathan Scott Hartly | Frank E. Wallis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alice in Wonderland | Animal: other, Juvenile, Literary Character, Sculpture, Women | Group (heroic scale) | Manhattan | Central Park | 76th Street and 5th Avenue, near Conservatory Lake | Group H: 9'7" D: 14'6"; Plinth H: 1' Diameter: 34'; Esplanade Diameter: 67'; Seven bronze tablets each H: 1'9" W: 4' | Bronze, Chelmsford granite | José de Creeft | F. Texidor; designer--Hideo Sasaki | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
American Boy | Sculpture | Standing male figure with plaque mounted on front of pedestal | the Bronx | Pelham Bay Park | Bruckner Blvd, Eastchester, Hutchinson; Between track and tennis courts | Figure H: 15'; Plaque H: 2'1" W: 2'9" | Figure and pedestal--Indiana limestone; plaque--bronze | Louis Saint-Lanne | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
American Redout Marker | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Large boulder resting on several medium-sized boulders, supported by about a dozen small boulders | Manhattan | Fort Washington Park | Promontory north of George Washington Bridge, southwest of railroad trestle near 180th Street (cross at 181st Street Pedestrian Bridge and proceed south on greenway) | Boulders and concrete | Reginald Pelham Bolton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Andrew Haswell Green | Civic Leader | Memorial seat | Manhattan | Central Park | East Drive, opposite 104th Street | H: 4'11" W: 12'5" D: 2'7" | Tennessee pink marble | John V. & M.V. Van Pelt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Anna Atkins Heckscher | Women | Tablet | Manhattan | Central Park | Heckscher Playground; Recreation Building west side architrave | H: 12" W: 18" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Anthony R. Gaeta Memorial | Public Servant | Relief plaque mounted on face of slab | Staten Island | Anthony R. Gaeta Park | Wyona Avenue, Willow Road, East Blvd., Victory Blvd. | Plaque H: 1'6" at center and 1'3" at sides W: 2'6" | Plaque--bronze; slab--Canadian granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Antonin Dvorak | Composer/Musician, Portrait, Sculpture | Standing three-quarter figure on base, plaque on ground | Manhattan | Stuyvesant Park | Northeast corner | Figure H: 3'11¼" W: 2'10" D: 1'10"; Base H: 3'8½" W: 2'5" D: 1'11¼"; Total H: 7'8¾"; total weight: 2,700 pounds | Figure and plaque: bronze; base: Brazilian green granite (verde lavros) | Ivan Mestrovic | Jan Hird Pokorny | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Antonio Meucci Memorial | Scientist/Inventor | Stele on base | Brooklyn | Meucci Square | 86th Street, Avenue U, West 12th Street | H: 62" W: 52" D:40" Diameter: 52" | Granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Armillary Sphere | Sculpture | Armillary sphere and sundial on circular pedestal | Manhattan | Sutton Parks | Sphere Diameter: 2'6"; Pedestal Diameter: 1' | Bronze, cast stone | Albert Stewart | Ann Butter, Levine & Blumberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arthur Brisbane Monument | Sculpture, Civic Leader | Shaft with bench beside it (all one piece) with sunken bas-relief medallion above the bench | Manhattan | Central Park | Fifth Avenue at 101st Street | H: 8' W: 14'10" D: 2'10" | Swenson's pink granite | Richmond Barthe, 1901-1989 | Shreve, Lamb and Harmon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arthur Cunningham | Public Servant | Bust | Queens | Cunningham Park | Bust inside building near tennis courts. | Pedestal H: 8'6" W: 6' D: 2' | Bronze | Emil Siebern | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arthur Cunningham Flagstaff | Public Servant | Flagstaff base | Queens | Cunningham Park | Grand Central Parkway | H: 6'8" W: 4' D: 4' | Granite, bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bailey Fountain | Allegorical, Sculpture | Group of three standing figures (heroic scale) on pedestal adorned with three reclining figures (heroic scale), in basin with rockwork coping | Brooklyn | Grand Army Plaza | North side of Grand Army Plaza | H: 25' (approximate) | Figures and pedestal--bronze; Basin--stone; Basin coping--aglomerated rocks | Eugene F. Savage | Edgerton Swarthout; H. Craig Severance (advisor) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Baker Monument | Politcal Figure, Public Servant | Plinth and tablet | Staten Island | Across the street from Borough Hall; Stuyvesant Place and Hyatt Street | Granite and bronze | Albert Melnicker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Balto | Sculpture, Animal: other | Canine figure on integral plinth on boulder with relief tablet mounted on front | Manhattan | Central Park | The Dene, west of 5th Avenue and East 67th Street | Figure W: 4'6" D: 2'6"; tablet: H: 2'6¼" W: 5'; Total H: 9' | Figure--bronze; Tablet--slate; Natural boulder--Manhattan schist | Frederick George Richard Roth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bartel-Pritchard Circle Columns | Sculpture | Two columns on high square plinths, each topped by a tripod and bowl | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | Prospect Park West and Prospect Park Southwest | Columns and plinths--granite; tripods and bowls--bronze | Stanford White | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Battle of Harlem Heights Marker | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Plaque on plinth | Manhattan | Riverside Park | 121st Street and Riverside Drive; in grassy triangle south of Grant's Tomb | Plaque H: 1'6" W: 2'; Plinth H: 1'7½" W: 2'1½" | Bronze, granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Battle Pass Historic Marker | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Plaque mounted on boulder | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | West side of East Drive, north of entrance to Prospect Park Wildlife Center | H: 1'4¼" W: 2'5" | Bronze, granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bayard Rustin Plaque | Civic Leader, Labor | Tablet on base | Manhattan | First Avenue and E. 43rd Street | Bronze, granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bayside Civil War Boulder | Civil War, War Memorial | Boulder and plaque (missing) | Queens | Captain William C. Dermody Square | 216 Street and 48 Avenue | Boulder H: 5' W: 3' D: 4'; Plaque H: 1'8" W: 1'3" D: 3/8" | Granite, bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Beacon | 9/11 | Over-life size sculpture, symbolic speaking-trumpet, with interior lamp; on concrete plinth | Brooklyn | 69th Street Pier (American Veterans Memorial Pier), Bay Ridge | H: 25'; Circumference at base: 8' | Bronze | Robert Ressler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Beethoven Memorial | Composer/Musician | Bust on pedestal | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | Flower Garden | Bust H: 4'; Pedestal H: 9'6" W: 4' D: 3' | Bronze, white granite | Henry Baerer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Benito Juarez | Politcal Figure, Civic Leader | Full-size portrait sculpture on bronze base | Manhattan | Sixth Avenue near 42nd Street | H: 5'5" | Bronze | Moises Cabrera Orozco | Enrique Norten | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Benjamin Franklin | Revolutionary War, Scientist/Inventor | Standing figure (over life size) on integral plinth on pedestal | Manhattan | Printing House Square, in front of Pace University, Nassau Street between Spruce and Frankfort Streets | Figure H: 10'6"; Pedestal H: 11'6" W: 5'8" | Bronze, Millstone granite | Ernst Plassman | Fisher and Bird | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bethesda Fountain | Sculpture, Allegorical, Women | Fountain with two basins, upper basin surmounted by angel figure (heroic scale), four putti (life size) between upper and lower basins, in a circular pool | Manhattan | Central Park | Bethesda Terrace | H: 25'; Diameter of lower basin 15'; Diameter of pool 96' | Figures--bronze, Lower basin--blue stone; Pool--Westerly granite (polished) | Emma Stebbins | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson Mural | Composer/Musician | Mural, period street lamp, plaque | Manhattan | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson Playground | West 150th Street, west side of 7 Avenue | H: 15' W: 17 '; Plaque H: 1'4" W: 1'8" | Mural--aluminum panels (¼" thick, coated with Duranar Fluoropolymer); plaque--bronze | Brandon Adams (Landscape architect) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bird Flying Machine | Sculpture, Abstract, Animal: other | Figure on integral plinth | Manhattan | Central Park | Arsenal South Roof, southwest corner facing southwest turret | Figure H: 2'9" W: 4'; weight: 130 pounds | Bronze | Dolly Hellman Perutz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blazed and Willowbrook Roads Tablet | Colonial, Revolutionary War | Plaque on stele | Staten Island | Blazed and Willowbrook Roads and Victory Boulevard | Plaque H: 1'2" W: 1'4"; Stele H: 3'3" W: 2' D: 1'1" | Bronze, Barre granite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boar | Animal: other, Sculpture | Boar (life size) on pedestal with a basin | Manhattan | Sutton Parks | East 57th St & East River (east of Sutton Place) | Pedestal H: 2' W: 5'6" L: 6'10" | Boar--bronze; Pedestal--granite | Ann Butter, Levine & Blumberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowdoin Horse Trough I | Animal: equestrian | Rectangular horse trough with filling at either end and feed pipe at center | Queens | Flushing Park Center Plots | Northern Boulevard and Linden Place | H: 1'10" W: 4'2" D: 2'8" | Trough--(Deer Isle?) granite; Filling--concrete | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling Green Fence Plaque | Colonial | Plaque | Manhattan | Bowling Green | IRON FENCE, BOWLING GREEN; Broadway and Beaver Streets | H: 18" W: 23" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling Green Marker | Colonial | Plaque on plinth | Manhattan | Bowling Green | South side of Bowling Green Fountain | Marker H 8" W: 2'6" D: 3'1" | Bronze, Milford pink granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowne House Tablet | Colonial | Plaque | Queens | Weeping Beech Park | FLUSHING; Bowne St. and 37th Avenue and Fox Lane | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boy and Dog | Allegorical, Animal: other, Juvenile | Group of two figures (life size) | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | Prospect Park Zoo; inside Education Building | H: 3' (approximate) | Marble | Karl Mueller | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boy Scout's Tablet | Politcal Figure, US President | Tablet | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | Top of Long Meadow | Bronze | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brigadier General Winfield Scott Hancock | Civil War, War Memorial | Bust on pedestal | Manhattan | Hancock Park | Manhattan Avenue at 123rd Street | Total H: 7' | Bronze, Quincy granite (polished) | James Wilson Alexander MacDonald | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bronx River Soldier | Civil War, War Memorial | Standing figure (life size) on plinth on pedestal | the Bronx | Varian House Park | North of Valentine-Varian House | Figure--granite; Original pedestal--concrete; Replacement plinth and pedestal--granite | John Grignola | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brookland Ferry Landing | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Tablet on boulder | Brooklyn | Fulton Ferry Landing | H: 20" W: 30" D: ¾" Rosette D: 1 1/25" | Bronze | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Burnett Memorial Fountain | Sculpture, Literary Character, Juvenile | Standing girl figure and reclining boy figure on pedestal; tablet in pavement | Manhattan | Central Park | Southern end of Conservatory Garden | Group H: 6'5" W: 3'8" D: 1' 11''; Pedestal H: 2'11" W: 3'6" D: 1' 11" | Figures--bronze; Pedestal---Milford pink granite; Tablet--slate | Bessie (Onahotema) Potter Vonnoh | Aymar Embury II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cactus Couple | Sculpture | Two forms, one tall and one ball-shaped, on base supported by low box | Manhattan | Central Park | Arsenal South Roof, center of roof beside planter banquette | Tall form H: 4'6" Diameter: 8"; Ball-shaped form H: 1'6" Diameter: 8"; Weight: 1,700 pounds (approximate) | Forms--serpentine marble (nubs unpolished); Base--white marble (unpolished) and Formica; Box--wood | Thea Tewi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Captain Roald Amundsen Plaque | Explorer | Plaque on boulder | Staten Island | Captain Roald Amundsen Plaza | Amboy Road and Clarke Avenue | Plaque L: 5'10" W: 1'4"; Boulder H: 8' W: 4' D: 6' (approximate) | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Carl Schurz Memorial | Politcal Figure, Soldier, Philanthropy | Portrait statue and exedra | Manhattan | Morningside Park | Morningside Drive at 116th Street | see memo | Bronze, Black Diamond granite | Karl Bitter | Henry Bacon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Carolus Linnaeus | Scientist/Inventor | Balustraded bridge with tablet | the Bronx | Pelham Parkway | Pelham Parkway opposite Zoological Park entrance | H:1'6" W: 2' | Limestone, bronze | Tiffany Studios | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Charles B. Stover | Politcal Figure, Public Servant | Exedra | Manhattan | Central Park | Shakespeare Garden; top of "rock of ages" | H: 3'10" W: 20' D: 13' | Deer isle granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chester Alan Arthur | Sculpture, Politcal Figure, US President | Standing figure (heroic scale) on integral plinth on pedestal | Manhattan | Madison Square Park | Near northeast entrance, Madison Avenue and East 26th Street | Total H: 15'2"; Figure and integral plinth H: 9' W: 3'9" D: 5'4" ; Pedestal H: 9' W: 4'9" D: 6'4" (all approximate) | Bronze, Barre granite (polished) | George Edwin Bissell | James Brown Lord | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chidwick, Rt. Rev. Msgr. John P. | Sculpture, Religious Leader | Two tablets | Manhattan | Maine Monument, Columbus Circle, 59th Street and 8th Avenue | 1'1"h x 1'5"w | Bronze | Charles Keck | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Christopher Columbus | Explorer | Standing figure (over life size) on pedestal, on plinth | Queens | Columbus Square | Astoria Boulevard, Hoyt Avenue and 31st Street | Figure H: 7'6" W: 4' D: 4' | Figure--bronze; Pedestal and plinth--cast stone | Angelo Racioppi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Christopher Columbus | Explorer | Bust on plinth on pedestal supported by two-part base | the Bronx | D'Auria Murphy Triangle | East 183rd St, Crescent Ave, Adams Place | Bust and plinth H: 4'3" W: 4'4" D: 2'3"; Pedestal H: 5'7" W: 2'7" D: 2'3" | Bust and plinth--Carrara marble; Pedestal and base--granite | Attilio Piccirilli | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Christopher Columbus | Sculpture, Explorer | Standing figure on base, on plinth | Brooklyn | Columbus Park | In front of New York State Supreme Court Building, at Montague and Court Streets | Figure H: 7'; Pedestal H: 11' Diameter: 3'6"; Base H: 2'6" Diameter: 8'9"; Plinth H: 1' Diameter: 17'3" | Italian marble, limestone | Emma Stebbins | Aymar Embury II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Christopher Columbus | Sculpture, Explorer | Standing figure (over life size) on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | South end of Mall | Figure H: 7"; Pedestal H: 8' W: 8' D: 8' | Bronze, Rockport granite (polished) | Jeronimo Sunol | Napoleon Le Brun | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Christopher Columbus | Sculpture, Explorer | Standing figure (over life size) on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | South end of Mall | Figure H: 7"; Pedestal H: 8' W: 8' D: 8' | Bronze, Rockport granite (polished) | Jeronimo Sunol | Napoleon Le Brun | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Christopher Columbus | Sculpture, Explorer | Standing figure (over life size) on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | South end of Mall | Figure H: 7"; Pedestal H: 8' W: 8' D: 8' | Bronze, Rockport granite (polished) | Jeronimo Sunol | Napoleon Le Brun | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Christopher Columbus | Sculpture, Explorer | Standing figure (over life size) on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | South end of Mall | Figure H: 7"; Pedestal H: 8' W: 8' D: 8' | Bronze, Rockport granite (polished) | Jeronimo Sunol | Napoleon Le Brun | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Christopher Columbus Tablet | Explorer | Plaque on pedestal | Brooklyn | Columbus Park | In front of New York State Supreme Court Building, at Montague and Court Streets | H: 12" W: 36" D: ¼"d | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
City Employees War Memorial | Sculpture, War Memorial, Public Servant | Flagstaff supported by sleeve ornamented with leaves and ending in four medallions in relief and four standing eagles with outspread wings, on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | West of north end of Mall, opposite Naumberg Bandshell | Sleeve H: 4'11" W: 3'2" D: 3'2"; Pedestal H: 6'1" W: 7'6" D: 7'6" | Flagstaff--iron; Sleeve--bronze; Pedestal--Deer Isle granite | Georg John Lober | Otto Langman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Clark Street Park (Fort Stirling) | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Tablet on plinth | Brooklyn | Fort Stirling Sitting Area | Clark Street and Columbia Heights | H: 17 ½" W: 26¾" | Bronze, granite | Albert Winert | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coast Guard Memorial | Sculpture, Soldier, War Memorial, World War II | Group of three figures (heroic scale), integral plinth, on pedestal | Manhattan | Battery Park | Not presently accessible; under construction. | Group H: 8'10"; Pedestal H: 5'8" W: 5'3" D: 3'4" | Bronze, Deer Isle granite | Norman M. Thomas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Colonial Rose Garden Tablet | Colonial | Tablet on boulder | Staten Island | Conference House Park | Biddle house, Pittsville Ave. and Satterlee St. | H: 10" W: 1'4" | Bronze, natural boulder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Columbus Monument | Sculpture, Explorer | Standing figue (colossal scale) on rostral column on pedestal, base, and plinth; pedestal figure of a winged youth examining a globe; two bas-reliefs on base | Manhattan | Central Park | Columbus Circle | Total: 76'; Figure H: 13'; Column H: 35'; Pedestal H: 28' | Figures--Carrara marble; Column--granite; Rostra and bas-reliefs--bronze | Gaetano Russo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Columbus Monument | Sculpture, Explorer | Standing figue (colossal scale) on rostral column on pedestal, base, and plinth; pedestal figure of a winged youth examining a globe; two bas-reliefs on base | Manhattan | Central Park | Columbus Circle | Total: 76'; Figure H: 13'; Column H: 35'; Pedestal H: 28' | Figures--Carrara marble; Column--granite; Rostra and bas-reliefs--bronze | Gaetano Russo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Columbus Square Tablet | Explorer | Circular tablet set in pavement | Queens | Columbus Square | Astoria Boulevard, Hoyt Avenue and 31st Street | Diameter: 24" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Columnade | Sculpture, Abstract | Two upright, continuous lengths of cast material in a U-attached- to- inverted-U pattern, aligned side by side | Manhattan | Fort Tryon Park | Across from restaurant building, north of parking lot | H: 17' W: 19' D: 3' 6" | Precast, reinforced concrete | Eduardo Ramirez Villamizar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commissioner Newbold Morris | Public Servant, Politcal Figure | Tablet on plinth | Manhattan | Central Park | Between Arsenal and Central Park Zoo; next to bench at the SW corner of building | H: 6 3/8" W: 15" | Bronze, granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commodore John Barry | Revolutionary War | Inscribed stele with Celtic cross and US Navy seal at top and text below | Brooklyn | Park Avenue, Navy Street, and North Elliot Place, South of Flushing Avenue, northeast corner of fieldhouse | H: 10" W: 30" D:18", 550 lbs. | Barre granite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Conference House Landmarks Tablet | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Plaque on exterior wall | Staten Island | Conference House Park | Foot of Hylan blvd | Iron | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Conference House National Landmarks Tablet | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Plaque on exterior wall | Staten Island | Conference House Park | Foot of Hylan Boulevard | Bronze | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Conference House Tablet | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Tablet on wall | Staten Island | Conference House Park | Foot of Hylan Boulevard | H: 1'2" W: 1' | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Conrad Poppenhusen | Scientist/Inventor | Bust on pedestal on stepped base | Queens | Hermon A. MacNeil Park | Poppenhusen Triangle, College Point Boulevard, 12th Avenue | H: 12'6" W: 5' D: 5' | Bronze, Barre granite | Henry Baerer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cornelius Heeney Memorial | Politcal Figure, Philanthropy | Plaque with relief medallion on plinth | Brooklyn | Columbus Park | In front of New York State Supreme Court building, at Montague and Court Streets | Plinth H: 1'2" L: 4'4" W: 2'10"; Plaque L: 3'9" W: 2'3" (approximate) | Pennsylvania black granite, bronze | Anneta Duveen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cyrus Clark | Sculpture, Business Leader, Civic Leader | Plaque on boulder | Manhattan | Riverside Park | Riverside Park at 83rd Street | H: 4' W: 2'5" | Bronze | Henry Kirk Bush-Brown | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dancing Goat | Animal: other, Sculpture | Goat standing on hind legs on integral plinth on pedestal in center of fountain basin | Manhattan | Central Park | Central Park Wildlife Center; niche at east end of southern exterior wall | H: 6'6" | Bronze | Frederick George Richard Roth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Daniel D. Tompkins | Politcal Figure | Tablet with text | Staten Island | Joseph H. Lyons Playground | Bay Street & Victory Blvd. | H: 1'8" W: 1'6"; Boulder H: 40" W: 40" | Bronze, natural granite boulder | Allen G. Newman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Daniel Webster | Politcal Figure | Standing figure with intergral plinth, on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | West Drive at East 72nd Street | Figure H:14'; Pedestal H: 20'; Figure weighs 6 tons; Pedestal weighs 125 tons | Bronze, Quincy granite | Thomas Ball | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dante Alighieri | Sculpture, Writer | Standing figure (over life-size) on pedestal | Manhattan | Dante Park | Broadway & 63rd Street | H: 25'7" W: 16'4" D: 16'4" | Figure and leaves--bronze; Pedestal--North Jay granite | Ettore Ximenes | Warren and Wetmore | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Debs Myers | Politcal Figure | Dogwood tree and plaque on plinth | Manhattan | City Hall Park | South end | see memo | Bronze, Sailsbury pnk grn (hone fin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Declaration of Independence Plaque | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Plaque on plinth | Manhattan | City Hall Park | On right side of driveway at Broadway entrance to City Hall | H: 2'1" W: 3' | Bronze, gray granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Delacorte Clock | Animal: other | Three-tiered mechanical clock; bottom level has six animal figures marching around clock tower in igrillwork frame; clock faces above the animals; clock tower topped by two monkeys and bell; clock is on top of arched gateway; two plaques | Manhattan | Central Park | Main walkway between Zoo and Children's Zoo | H: 18'6" W: 23'4" D: 5'9"; Each plaque H: 7" W: 9" | Animals and bell--bronze; Grillwork--iron; Gateway--brick and limestone | Andrea Spadini | Edward C. Embury | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Denis P. Gorman | Public Servant, Civic Leader | Plaque on field house wall | Queens | Denis P. Gorman Memorial Park | 30th Avenue, 84th and 85th Streets | H: 18" W: 24" D: 5/8" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discus Thrower | Athlete, Allegorical | Standing figure (heroic scale) with integral plinth, on pedestal, front decorated with applied wreath and urn, plaque at rear | Manhattan | Randalls Island Park | Triangular median off ramp of Triborough Bridge | Sculpture: H: 7'2" W: 2'10" D: 3'9"; Base: H: 4'2" W: 3'4" D: 4'5" Overall: H: 11'4" W: 3'4" D: 4'5"; Plaque H: 6" W: 11" | Figure, pedestal decorations, plaque--bronze; Pedestal-- Stony Creek granite (polished) | Kostas Dimitriadis | Mckim Mead and White | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dongan Oak Marker | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Eagle on integral plinth on stele on base, two plaques (one mounted on stele, one in ground before stele) | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | Path leading to Plaza entrance, north of entrance to Prospect Park Wildlife Center | Eagle H: 1'10"; Stele H: 5' W: 1'8" D: 1'; Base H: 1' W: 2'8" D: 1'8"; Mounted plaque H: 1'11¼" W: 1'5"; Total H: 9'7½" | Stele and base--granite; eagle and plaques--bronze | Frederick Wellington Ruckstull (original eagle); Joseph Petrovics (first replacement eagle) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Doris C. Freedman Plaza Plaque | Artist, Public Servant | Plaque | Manhattan | Central Park | Scholars Gate | 1'4" x 1'9" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dr. Alexander J.C. Skene | Physician | Bust with integral standard on pedestal backed by a stele | Brooklyn | Grand Army Plaza | Against an earth bank to the southeast of the main plaza ellipse between Vanderbilt and Flatbush Avenues | Bronze, white Vermont marble | John Massey Rhind | M.L.and H.G. Emery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dr. James Marion Sims | Physician | Standing figure with integral plinth on pedestal with supporting piers right and left, each bearing an inscribed roundel on its face | Manhattan | Central Park | Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street | Figure H: 8'9" W: 3' D: 2'11"; Pedestal approximate H: 4½' W: 6'9½"; each pier H: 8' W: 3'9" D: 4' | Bronze; North Jay, Maine granite | Ferdinand von Miller II | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Duke Ellington Memorial | Sculpture, Composer/Musician, Portrait, Civil War | Standing figure (heroic scale) before a grand piano on a circular platform supported by three groups of three caryatids on three triform columns, integral plinth, two plaques on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | Duke Ellington Circle, 110th Street and 5th Avenue | Ellington figure H: 8'; each caryatid H: 4'; each triform column H: 10'; sculpture total H: 25'; upper plaque H: 5" W: 10"; lower plaque H: 2¼" W: 7½" | Bronze; pedestal--brick (?) | Robert Graham | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eagles | Animal: other | 8 sculptured eagles | Manhattan | Central Park | Central Park Wildlife Center, Fifth Avenue at 64th Street | H: 4'10" W: 5'2" D: 2'1" | Granite | Rochette and Parzini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eagles | Animal: other | 8 sculptured eagles | Manhattan | Central Park | Central Park Wildlife Center, Fifth Avenue at 64th Street | H: 4'10" W: 5'2" D: 2'1" | Granite | Rochette and Parzini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eagles | Animal: other | 8 sculptured eagles | Manhattan | Central Park | Central Park Wildlife Center, Fifth Avenue at 64th Street | H: 4'10" W: 5'2" D: 2'1" | Granite | Rochette and Parzini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eagles | Animal: other | 8 sculptured eagles | Manhattan | Central Park | Central Park Wildlife Center, Fifth Avenue at 64th Street | H: 4'10" W: 5'2" D: 2'1" | Granite | Rochette and Parzini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eagles | Animal: other | 8 sculptured eagles | Manhattan | Central Park | Central Park Wildlife Center, Fifth Avenue at 64th Street | H: 4'10" W: 5'2" D: 2'1" | Granite | Rochette and Parzini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eagles | Animal: other | 8 sculptured eagles | Manhattan | Central Park | Central Park Wildlife Center, Fifth Avenue at 64th Street | H: 4'10" W: 5'2" D: 2'1" | Granite | Rochette and Parzini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eagles | Animal: other | 8 sculptured eagles | Manhattan | Central Park | Central Park Wildlife Center, Fifth Avenue at 64th Street | H: 4'10" W: 5'2" D: 2'1" | Granite | Rochette and Parzini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eagles | Animal: other | 8 sculptured eagles | Manhattan | Central Park | Central Park Wildlife Center, Fifth Avenue at 64th Street | H: 4'10" W: 5'2" D: 2'1" | Granite | Rochette and Parzini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eagles | Animal: other | 8 sculptured eagles | Manhattan | Central Park | Central Park Wildlife Center, Fifth Avenue at 64th Street | H: 4'10" W: 5'2" D: 2'1" | Granite | Rochette and Parzini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eagles and Prey | Animal: other | Group of two birds attacking a goat, on a pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | Total dimensions H: 12'6" W: 6' D: 6' | Bronze, Quincy light granite | Christophe Fratin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eagles and Prey | Animal: other | Group of two birds attacking a goat, on a pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | Total dimensions H: 12'6" W: 6' D: 6' | Bronze, Quincy light granite | Christophe Fratin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
East 23rd Street Bath House Dolphin Fountain | Animal: other | Dolphin head spout and stele, inside on pool deck | Manhattan | Inside pool, on deck | Bronze and marble | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edgar Allan Poe | Writer | Portrait bust, pedestal | the Bronx | Poe Park | Inside Poe Cottage, Grand Concourse, 193rd -194th Streets | Bust H: 21"; Pedestal H: 6'6" W: 1'10" D:1'3" | Bronze, polished walnut | Edmond T. Quinn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edith Bowdoin ASPCA Horse Trough | Animal: equestrian | Rectangular basin "Type G" trough | Manhattan | Grand Army Plaza, southeast corner of Central Park | 20 1/2" h, 53" l, 35 1/2" d | Granite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edvard Grieg Memorial | Composer/Musician | Bust on pedestal with plaque | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | Flower Garden | Bust H: 3'; Pedestal H: 9'3" W: 3'4" D: 3'1"; Plaque H: 6" W: 1'6" | Bust and plaque--bronze; Pedestal--granite | Sigvald Asbjornsen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edward Robinson Squibb Plaque | Scientist/Inventor | Plaque with relief bust | Brooklyn | E.R. Squibb Park | Columbia Heights to Furman St at Middagh St | H: 3'6" W: 2'1" | Bronze | Joseph A. DiLorenzo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edwin Franko Goldman | Composer/Musician | Plaque on exterior wall | Manhattan | Central Park | Right wall of Naumberg Bandshell | H: 11" W: 15" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Emma Lazarus Memorial Plaque | Women, Writer | Plaque on plinth | Manhattan | Battery Park | West of Castle Clinton | H: 2'9" W: 2'7" | Bronze, Israel limestone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth | Civil War | Flagstaff, pedestal with tablet | Manhattan | Christopher Park | Adjoining Sheridan Square, Christopher, Grove and West 4th Streets | H: 4'6" W: 2'11" D: 2'11" | Bronze, concrete | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Father Demo Square | Christian | Incised letter on light pole base | Manhattan | Father Demo Square | 6th Avenue, Bleeker and Carmine Streets | Granite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Father Francis P. Duffy | Religious Leader, World War I, Spanish-American War, War Memorial | Standing figure (over life size) before a Celtic cross, on a pedestal, on a base, on a platform with seat at rear, approached by three steps | Manhattan | Father Duffy Square | Broadway & 46th Street | Figure H: 7'6"; Pedestal H: 3'7" W: 4'10 1/4" D: 4'10 1/4"; Base H: 2'1" W: 5'3 3/8" D: 5'3 3/8" | Figure--bronze; Cross, pedestal, base, platform, and steps--Archean green granite (source, Angora, Minnesota) | Charles Keck | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Father Giorgio Memorial | Christian, War Memorial, World War II | Stele with portrait plaque | Brooklyn | Father Giorgio Square | Lorimer Street, Jackson and Meeker Avenues | Granite, bronze | A.S. Cianfarani | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Father Jerzy Popieluszko Monument | Christian | Bust emerging from a rough-hewn block, so it appears to be enshrouded up to the shoulders in a map of Poland, two plaques in pavement at front | Brooklyn | McCarren Park | Father Jerzy Popieluszko Square, Bedford and Nassau Avenues | H: 8' W: 3'6" L: 2'6"; Total weight: 14,450 lbs | Barre gray granite | Stanislaw Lutostanski | M. Paul Friedberg & Partners | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fiorello H. La Guardia | Public Servant, Politcal Figure | Bust (life-size) on pedestal | Manhattan | La Guardia Houses Playground | Cherry and Jefferson Streets | Bust H: 1'6" W: 1'11"; Pedestal H: 6'9" W: 2'8" D: 1'2" | Bronze, Minnesota rainbow granite | Jo Davidson | Eggers & Higgins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Firemen's Memorial | Public Servant, Fireman | Sarcophagus | Manhattan | James J. Walker Park | Leroy and Clarkson Streets/7th Avenue | H: 6'6" W: 5'2" D: 7'3" | Marble | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Firemen's Memorial | Public Servant, Fireman, Sculpture | Monumental sarcophagus-like structure with a bas-relief, groups of figures (over life size) at either end, on terrace with fountain, and balustrades approached by a flight of steps | Manhattan | Riverside Park | Riverside Drive and West 100th Street | Monument H: 20'6" W: 37' D: 10'; Terrace W: 66' D: 41' | Bas-relief--bronze; Other elements--Knoxville marble, Pompton Lakes granite | Attilio Piccirilli | Harold Van Buren Magonigle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Firemen's Memorial Tablet Horses | Animal: equestrian, Fireman | Tablet embedded in terrace | Manhattan | Riverside Park | Firemens Memorial Terrace, Riverside Drive at 100th Street | H: 4'5" D: 4'5" | Bronze | Harold Van Buren Magonigle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fitz Greene Halleck | Writer | Seated figure (over life-size) on integral plinth, on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | East side of Mall | Total H: 13'5" W: 5'5" L: 6'5" | Bronze, Westerly granite | James Wilson Alexander MacDonald | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Flushing Park Memorial | Civil War, War Memorial | Obelisk with incised letters | Queens | Flushing Park Center Plots | Northern Boulevard between Union & Linden Streets | H: 40' | Granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Forms in Transit | Abstract | Large composition on pedestal | Queens | Flushing Meadows / Corona Park | Northeast of Hall of Science | Form H: 12' W: 14' D: 30'; Pedestal H: 8' to 12' W: 8' D: 15' | Composition--sheet metal and tube metal (aluminum and iron?); Pedestal--concrete | Theodore Roszak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fort George Memorial Tablet | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Tablet | Manhattan | Battery Park | Not presently accessible; under construction. | H: 33" W: 29.5" L: 29.5" | White Vermont marble | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fort Greene Eagles | Animal: other | 4 sculptured eagles | Brooklyn | Fort Greene Park | Two at Prison Ship Martrys Monument, two at the Arsenal; Ft. Greene Park and Arsenal, Fifth Avenue and East 64th Street | Bronze | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fort Hamilton D.A.R. Tablet | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Tablet on natural boulder | Brooklyn | John Paul Jones Park | 4th Ave, 101st Street, Ft. Hamilton Pkwy. | Tablet H: 20" W: 30"; Boulder H: 4'10" W: 9'6" D: 5' | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fort Independence Park | Revolutionary War | Tablets on gateposts | the Bronx | Fort Independence Park | Sedgwick Avenue at Giles Place | H: 6'8" W: 2'6" D: 2'6" | Bronze, Somesound granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fort Number Four | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Tablet recessed in stone wall | the Bronx | Fort Four Playground | Reservoir Avenue and University Avenue | H: 30" W: 42" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fort Tryon Memorial | Revolutionary War, Women | Stele with sculptured decorations | Manhattan | Fort Tryon Park | In retaining wall north of Linden Terrace | H: 12' W: 6'6" D: 2' | Bronze, granite (polished) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fort Tryon Park Flagstaff | Revolutionary War | Flagstaff pedestal | Manhattan | Fort Tryon Park | Linden Terrace, Riverside Drive and 192nd Street to Dyckman Street | H: 8'8" D: 13' | Deer Isle granite, bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fort Washington Memorial | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Stele and marble structure | Manhattan | Bennett Park | Fort Washington Avenue, 183 Street | H: 10' W: 4'4" D: 1'4" | Vermont white marble, bronze, Quincy granite | Charles Lamb | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Four Chimneys | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Tablet recessed in boulder | Brooklyn | Grass Strip along BQE Promenade between Remsen and Montague Streets | Brooklyn Heights Promenade; Montague Street and Montague Terrace | H: 20" W: 30" D: ¾" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Four Eagles | Allegorical, Animal: other, Sculpture | Four columns, each with four small eagles surmounting globes at middle sections and one large eagle surmounting globe at top | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | Grand Army Plaza entrance between Prospect Park West and Flatbush Avenue | Small eagle (each) H: 6'7" W: 5'7"; Small eagle and globe (each) H: 9'; Large eagle (each) H: 6'8" W: 5'6"; Large eagle and globe (each) H: 9'11"; Column (each) H: 50' | Granite, bronze | Frederick William MacMonnies | Stanford White | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Francis Lewis Plaque | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Plaque on base of flagstaff | Queens | Francis Lewis Park | Whitestone Bridge approach | H: 27" W: 16¾" D: 1" | Bronze, concrete | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Francis Makemie | Religious Leader | Plaque on plinth | Manhattan | Bowling Green | Broadway | H: 14" W: 18" | Granite, bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frank Frontera Park Tablet | Public Servant, Civic Leader | Marker | Queens | Frank Frontera Park | 69th St. and 58th Avenue | H: 12" W: 17¾" | Stone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frank J. Goodwin | Public Servant, Politcal Figure | Memorial gate posts | Manhattan | Chelsea Park | 9th Avenue at 27th Street | H: 5'10" W: 2' D: 2' | North Jay granite | Murry and Matheson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frank Kelly | Civic Leader | Plaque on plinth, tree marker | the Bronx | Van Cortlandt Park | Broadway, between 259th-260th Streets | Plaque H: 1' W: 9"; Plinth H: 3" W: 2'2" | Aluminum, concrete | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frank L. Dowling | Public Servant, Politcal Figure | Memorial gate posts | Manhattan | Chelsea Park | 9th Avenue at 27th Street | H: 5'10" W: 2' D: 2' | Granite | Murray and Matheson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frank S. Hackett | Educator, Religious Leader, Civic Leader | Plaque on boulder | the Bronx | Frank S. Hackett Park | Riverdale Avenue and 254th Street; top of hill | Plaque H:12" W:24" D:½"; Boulder H: 42" W: 50" | Bronze, natural boulder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frederick E. Samuel Memorial | Public Servant, Politcal Figure | Bronze plaque on pillar with incised, green-painted leaf at bottom in pavement | Manhattan | Fredrick Johnson Park | Tennis court #7; 7th Avenue between West 150-151 Streets | H: 3'6" (approximate) | Bronze, concrete | Albert Benevento | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frederick Johnson Memorial | Athlete | Stele with incised letters | Manhattan | Frederick Johnson Park | 150th St. and 7th Ave. | H: 3'4" W: 1'8" D: 7 ½" | Barre granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Free Form | Abstract | Form on base | Queens | Flushing Meadows / Corona Park | Mall, northwest of Armillary Sphere | Form H: 12'; Base H: 8'10" | Stainless steel, Atlantic black granite (polished) | Jose De Rivera | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Garibaldi Marker | Politcal Figure | Honed granite plinth, incised inscription | Brooklyn | Giuseppe Garibaldi Playground | 82nd Street and 18th Avenue, Bensonhurst | H: 4'3" W: 2' D: 11" | Granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General Daniel Butterfield | Sculpture, Composer/Musician, Civil War, Soldier, War Memorial | Standing figure (over life size) on rock on pedestal | Manhattan | Sakura Park | Riverside Drive at 122 Street | H: 15'4" D: 3'3" | Bronze, Deer Isle granite | Gutzon Borglum | Ludlow and Peabody | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General Edward Fowler | Civil War, War Memorial, Sculpture, Soldier | Standing figure (over life size) on integral plinth on pedestal with wreath containing letters of name, and plaque | Brooklyn | Fowler Square: Lafayette Avenue, Fulton Street, South Elliott Place | Figure H: 7'11"; Pedestal H: 6'4" Diameter 7'2"; Plaque H: 1'9 1/2 " W: 2' 1/2" | Bronze, Quincy granite (polished) | Henry Baerer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General George Washington Tablet | Revolutionary War, War Memorial, US President | Tablet on boulder | Queens | Alley Park | Horace Harding Blvd, 233rd Street, West Alley Road, Bayside | H: 14" W: 20" | Bronze, granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General Henry Warner Slocum | Civil War, War Memorial | Equestrian figure on pedestal embellished with relief eagle on front, four medallions (two on each side) | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | East Plaza Street, east of Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch | Statue H: 17' W: 4'8¾" D: 12'7¾"; Pedestal H: 11'10¾" W: 10'5¾" D: 18'4" | Figure, eagle, and medallions--bronze; pedestal--pink Milford granite with steps of Milford granite alternating with Green's Landing granite | Frederick William MacMonnies | Stanford White | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General Horace Porter Memorial | Civil War, War Memorial | Flagstaff base with plaque | Manhattan | Riverside Park | Riverside Drive at 122nd Street (Grant's Tomb Terrace) | H: 6'1 ½" Diameter: 8' | Somesound granite, bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General José Artigas | Politcal Figure, Civic Leader | Standing figure (heroic scale), integral plinth, pedestal, plaque in rear | Manhattan | Soho Square | 6th Avenue and Spring Street | Figure H: 11' W: 3'4" D: 2'10"; pedestal H: 4'6" W: 6'10" D: 6'4"; sculpture weight: 2,640 pounds | Bronze, Uruguayan black and pink granite | José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín | María Cristina Caquías | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General Jose de San Martin | Animal: equestrian, Civic Leader, Politcal Figure | Equestrian figure (over life-size)on integral plinth, on pedestal with escutcheon | Manhattan | Central Park | Central Park South and Avenue of the Americas | Figure H: 14'; Pedestal H: 20'4" W: 6'1" D: 12'6" | Figure and escutcheon--bronze; pedestal--granite | Louis-Joseph Daumas | Clarke, Rapuano and Holleran | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General Josiah Porter | Civil War, War Memorial, Soldier | Standing figure on integral plinth, on pedestal | the Bronx | Van Cortlandt Park | Behind Van Cortlandt House, Broadway at 245th Street | Figure H: 8'; Pedestal H: 7' W: 8'3" D: 8'3" | Bronze, Westerly, R. I. Granite | William Clark Noble | Tainter [alternatively Harry E. Donnell] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General Kazimierz Pulaski | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Tablet on stele | Staten Island | Silver Lake Park | Forest Ave at Duer Lane | Tablet H: 2' W: 2'; Stele H: 3'4" W: 3'3" D: 16"; Plinth H: 8" W: 4'7" D: 2'8" | Bronze, Barre granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General Philip Henry Sheridan | Civil War, War Memorial, Soldier | Standing figure (over life-size) with integral plinth on pedestal | Manhattan | Christopher Park | Adjoining Sheridan Square, Christopher, Grove and West 4th Streets | H: 12'4" W: 3'10" D: 3'10" | Bronze, Conway green granite | Joseph P. Pollia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genevieve Beavers Earle Flagstaff | Women, Civic Leader | Plaque on flagstaff base | Brooklyn | Grass Strip along BQE Promenade between Remsen and Montague Streets | Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Montague St. and Montague Terrace | Plaque H: 17" W: 34 ½"; Base H: 47 ½" W: 48" | Bronze, granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George F. Torsney | Civic Leader | Tablet on wall | Queens | Skillman Avenue at 41st Street; Playground House | 11 1/3"h x 21 ½"w x 5/8"d | Bronze | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George M. Cohan | Sculpture, Composer/Musician | Standing figure (over life size), integral plinth, on pedestal | Manhattan | Father Duffy Square | Figure H: 8'7"; Pedestal (upper part) H: 6' 11 1/2" W: 3' 6 3/4" D: 6' 3/4"; Pedestal base H:5 1/2" W: 7'3" D: 7'3" | Figure--bronze; Pedestal--light Barre granite on dark Barre granite base | Georg John Lober | Otto Langman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George Washington | Revolutionary War, War Memorial, Sculpture, US President | Equestrian figure on intergral plinth, pedestal on plinth | Manhattan | Union Square Park | South end | Overall H: 26'4"; Statue H: 13'6"; Pedestal H: 12'2" W: 7'9" L: 15'; Pedestal plinth H: 10" W: 9'9" L: 17' | Bronze, Barre granite | Henry Kirke Brown; J.Q.A. Ward. assistant | Richard Upjohn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George Washington Accompanied by Fame and Valor | Revolutionary War, War Memorial, US President | Standing figure (three/quarters round, over life-size) before two figures (over life-size) in high relief, on integral plinth, pedestal | Manhattan | Washington Square Park | Washington Square Arch, east pier, north side | Granite | Hermon Atkins MacNeil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George Washington Accompanied by Wisdom and Justice | Revolutionary War, War Memorial, US President | Standing figure (three/quarters round, over life-size) before two figures (over life-size) in high relief, on integral plinth, pedestal | Manhattan | Washington Square Park | Washington Square Arch, west pier, north side | Granite | Alexander Stirling Calder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George Washington as Master Mason | Revolutionary War, War Memorial, US President | Standing figure (over life-size) beside a Masonic altar, and wearing a Masonic medal and apron, gavel in right hand, hat in left, with integral plinth on pedestal | Queens | Flushing Meadows / Corona Park | Figure H: 9'6" | Bronze, North Carolina pink granite | Donald De Lue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George Washington at Valley Forge | Revolutionary War, War Memorial, US President | Equestrian figure on pedestal, tablet | Brooklyn | Williamsburg Bridge Plaza and Playground | Roebling, S. 4th and 5th Sts. | Statue: H:13' D:15'3"; Pedestal H: 18'8" x W: 8' D: 15'; Tablet H: 2'1" x 3'5"w; Plinths H: 1'6" W: 25'10" D: 32'8" | Bronze, Somesound granite | Henry Merwin Shrady | Lord and Hewlett | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George Washington Bicentennial Tree Marker | Revolutionary War, War Memorial, US President | Tablet | Manhattan | Bennett Park | Fort Washington Avenue, 183-184th Streets | 11"h x 16"w | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gertie A. Gorman Memorial | Women | Stele and exedra | Manhattan | Gorman Memorial Park | West 189th Street and Wadsworth Terrace | H: 9' W: 17' D: 1'6" | Deer Isle granite | C. Fisher Weimer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gertrude Stein | Writer, Women | Seated figure on pedestal on base | Manhattan | Bryant Park | Figure H: 2'9" W: 2' D: 2'; Pedestal H:4'2" W: 2'6" D: 2'6" (includes base); Weight: 225 pounds (figure only) | Figure--bronze; pedestal--light gray "Stanstead" Rock of Ages granite (polished); base: charcoal Cold Springs granite (polished) | Jo Davidson | Kupiec Koutsomitis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Giovanni da Verrazzano | Explorer | Elevated male half figure and standing female figure (both heroic scale) on pedestal consisting of two perpendicular slabs | Manhattan | Battery Park | Not presently accessible; under construction. | half figure h 5' (?); standing figure h 9'; original total h 27' x w 11'6" x d 11'6" | Bronze, Deer Isle granite | Ettore Ximenes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Giuseppe Garibaldi | Politcal Figure | Standing figure (over life-size) on integral plinth on pedestal | Manhattan | Washington Square Park | H: 20'8" W: 10' D: 10' | Bronze and granite | Giovanni Turini | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Giuseppe Mazzini | Politcal Figure | Portrait bust on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | West Drive opposite 62nd St. | H: 14'1" W: 3'10" D: 3'10" | Bronze, Westerly granite | Giovanni Turini | F. Matriati | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Giuseppe Verdi | Composer/Musician | Statues on ped., surrounding statues | Manhattan | Verdi Square | Broadway at 73rd Street | H: 25'9" Diameter: 18' | Carrara, Monte Chiaro limestone | Pasquale Civiletti | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Glover's Rock | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Tablet on natural boulder | the Bronx | Pelham Bay Park | Orchard Beach Relief Road; east end on east-bound lane | H: 30" W: 36" | Bronze, natural boulder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Governor Alfred E. Smith Memorial | Sculpture, Politcal Figure | Standing figure (over life-size) before a die, right hand resting on a drapery that partially covers the die; a brown derby is on the drapery; plaques on front and two ends of die; die and figure rest on a low base; on back of die is a bas-relief | Manhattan | Alfred E. Smith Park | Catherine Street, between Cherry and Monroe Streets, fronting the Governor A.E. Smith Houses | Figure H: 9'3"; Die H: 4'6" W: 9'6" D: 2'6"; Bas-relief H: 4' W: 7'8" | Figure, plaque, and bas-relief--bronze, die and base -- Texas pink granite | Charles Keck | Eggers & Higgins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Group of Bears | Animal: other | Group of three on integral, graduated plinth on circular pedestal with five steps; plaque | Manhattan | Central Park | Pat Hoffman Friedman Playground, 5th Avenue and 79th Street | Group H: 7'4" W: 6' D: 4'8"; Pedestal H: 1' Diameter: 20'; Plaque H: 1'4" W: 9"; Weight: 1,500 pounds | Group and plaque--bronze; Pedestal--granite | Paul Howard Manship | Bruce Kelly / David Varnell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Growth | Sculpture | Composition of flowing forms | Manhattan | East Harlem Art Park | East 120th Street & Sylvan Place (between 3rd Ave. & Lex.) | H: 14' W: 11' D: 9' | Steel (painted) | Jorge Luis Rodríguez | Housing Preservation and Development Open Spaces Program | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hans Christian Andersen | Sculpture, Writer, Literary Character, Juvenile, Animal: other | Seated figure (heroic scale) on bench, cygnet figure | Manhattan | Central Park | On raised plaza west of Conservatory Lake, East 74th Street and East Drive | Figure H: 9'6" W: 6'1" D: 6'2"; Bench H: 3'3" W: 21'2" D: 17'4"; Cygnet figure H: 1'10½" | Figures--bronze; Bench--Stony Creek pink granite (polished) | Georg John Lober | Otto F. Langmann (Bench) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hans Christian Andersen | Sculpture, Writer, Literary Character, Juvenile, Animal: other | Seated figure (heroic scale) on bench, cygnet figure | Manhattan | Central Park | On raised plaza west of Conservatory Lake, East 74th Street and East Drive | Figure H: 9'6" W: 6'1" D: 6'2"; Bench H: 3'3" W: 21'2" D: 17'4"; Cygnet figure H: 1'10½" | Figures--bronze; Bench--Stony Creek pink granite (polished) | Georg John Lober | Otto F. Langmann (Bench) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harlem Heights First Line of Defense Marker | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Recessed plaque on natural boulder | Manhattan | Broadway Center Plots | Between 147th and 148th Streets | Plaque H: 1'8" W: 1'6"; Boulder H: 3' W: 2'6" D: 2'6" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harlem Hybrid | Sculpture | Irregular assemblage of plates of different shapes and thicknesses | Manhattan | Roosevelt Square | West 125th Street and Morningside Avenue | H: 10'6" W: 12'7" L: 27'; Weight:: 5,500 lbs. | Bronze (welded) | Richard Howard Hunt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harold W. Cohn Memorial | Politcal Figure, Public Servant | Stele, plaque with bas-relief | Brooklyn | Cohn Square | Intersection of Bedford and Division Avenues | Stele H: 6'7" W: 1'8" D: 8"; Plaque H: 3' W: 10" D: 1½" | North Carolina pink Lawlor stone, bronze | Stanislaw Lutostanski | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harriet Tubman Memorial | Women, Portrait | Over-lifesize portrait sculpture | Manhattan | West 122nd Street, St. Nicholas Avenue and Frederick Douglass Boulevard | Approx. 13' H 14' L | Bronze, Chinese granite | Alison Saar | Quennell Rothschild Partners (landscape design) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Haym Salomon Memorial | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Stele on base | Queens | Shalom Square | Main Street, Vleigh Place, 72nd Drive, and 72 Road | Stele H: 4' W: 2'1" D: 1'1"; Base H: 1' W" 4'1" D: 2'7" | Stele--granite (unpolished); Base--concrete (rusticated at top and sides) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Henry Hudson Memorial | Explorer, Sculpture | Doric column, panels, statue | the Bronx | Henry Hudson Parkway | Henry Hudson Parkway and 227th Street | Column H:100' W: 17'7" Diameter: 19'7"; Statue H:.17'; Panels: H: 7'2" W: 10'2" | Milford pink granite, bronze | Karl Gruppe, Karl Bitter | Walter Cook; Babb, Cook, Welch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Henry W. Maxwell Memorial | Educator | Plaque with bas-relief roundel on boulder. Replica of original which is now at the Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn | Grand Army Plaza | Plaza Street and St. Johns Place | Plaque H: 4'3¼" W: 3'1½" D: 1¼"; Boulder H: 8' W: 6' | Bronze, granite | Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Albert Jaegers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Henry Ward Beecher Monument | Religious Leader, Civic Leader, Juvenile | Standing figure (heroic scale) with integral plinth on pedestal with two steps, a standing female figure beside pedestal proper right and two child figures beside pedestal proper left | Brooklyn | Columbus Park | Cadman Plaza near Johnson Street | Beecher figure H: 7'6"; Pedestal H: 7' W: 10' D: 8'5" | Figures--bronze; Pedestal--Barre granite (polished) | John Quincy Adams Ward | Richard Morris Hunt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Holocaust Memorial Mall | Holocaust | Tower consisting of brickwork partially concealing fourteen vertical bars supporting crown with beacon at top, three-tiered base, horizontal marker, approximately one hundred rough-hewn varisized vertical markers, two evergreen trees, evergreen shrubs | Brooklyn | Cherry Mall | Sheepshead Bay; West End Ave. betw. Shore Blvd. & Emmons Ave. | Horizontal marker L: 21' | Brickwork--stone; bars (and crown?)--steel (rusticated); beacon--bronze; base and markers--granite | George P. Vellonakis (designer) | George P. Vellonakis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Honey Bear | Sculpture, Animal: other | Fountain figure on ornamented integral plinth | Manhattan | Central Park | Central Park Zoo; in exterior wall niche at northeast corner of zoo near Delcorte Clock | H: 6'6" | Bronze | Frederick George Richard Roth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Horace Greeley | Politcal Figure, Business Leader | Seated figure on integral plinth (over life-size),on pedestal | Manhattan | Greeley Square | 32nd Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue | Bronze, Quincy granite (polished) | Alexander Doyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Horace Greeley | Politcal Figure, Business Leader | Seated figure (over life-size) on integral plinth, on pedestal | Manhattan | City Hall Park | Northeast corner of the park | Figure H: 7'2'; Plinth H: 5" W: 5'8" D: 6'8"; Pedestal H: 5'7" W: 5'8" D: 6'8" | Bronze, Quincy granite (polished) | John Quincy Adams Ward | Richard Morris Hunt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icon II | Sculpture | Upright X-form on plinth | Staten Island | Sailors Snug Harbor | West Lawn | H: 10' W: 5'9¼" D: 1'6"; Plinth H: 1' W: 7'1¼" L: 2'10"; Weight: 8,000 pounds | Precast, Tuscan red reinforced concrete | Seena Donneson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ilse Metzger | Women, Civic Leader | Wedge-shaped marker | Queens | Sitting Area along Grand Central Parkway at 78th Avenue | Grand Central Parkway, 78th Avenue, Service Road | H: 15" W: 19" D: 13" | Gray granite, s.b. incised letters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Imagine | Composer/Musician | Mosaic roundel with starburst design set in pavement, plaque set in rock outcropping about a hundred yards east of roundel | Manhattan | Central Park | Strawberry Fields, Central Park West and 72nd Street | Circumference: 34'3" (approximate) | Neapolitan black and white marble, bronze | Bruce Kelly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Independence Flagstaff | Revolutionary War, Sculpture, War Memorial | Flagstaff on drum pedestal with two bas-reliefs and two plaques | Manhattan | Union Square Park | Center of park | Flagstaff H: 40'; Pedestal H: 9'6' Diameter 36' | Flagstaff--steel, copper sheathing; Pedestal--granite; Bas-reliefs and plaques--bronze, | Anthony de Francisci | Perry Coke Smith, Charles B. Meyer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Isidor and Ida Straus | Business Leader | Exedra and fountain pool with figure | Manhattan | Straus Park | Broadway at 106th Street | H:6' W: 23' D: 47' | Bronze, Deer Isle granite | Augustus Lukeman | Evarts Tracy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
J. Wesley Drumm Park | Educator | Tablet on natural boulder | Queens | J. Wesley Drumm Park | Cypress Hills Street and Cooper Avenue | H: 4' W: 3'6" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jackie Robinson | Athlete | Bust, two plaques | Manhattan | Jackie Robinson Park | West 147th St. and Bradhurst Avenue | Bronze | Inge Hardison | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese Monument | Athlete | Over lifesize portrait sculpture of two baseball heroes | Brooklyn | In front of MCU Stadium, formerly known as KeySpan | Donor plaque: W:78" H:13.5" | Bronze, granite | William Behrends; LIV ART (engravers) | Ken Smith Landscape Architects | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
James A. Sherry Plaque | Public Servant | Plaque | Manhattan | Central Park | Arsenal Gallery | H: 10½" W: 1'5" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
James Amster Plaque | Civic Leader, Civic Leader | Plaque set in ground, pavers | Manhattan | Peter Detmold Park | Near James Amster Pavillion, East 51st Street and Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive | L: 1'4" W: 8" | Plaque--brass; Pavers--granite (and muntzmetal?) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
James Gordon Bennett Memorial | Allegorical, Sculpture | Niche, pilasters, 3 figural statues, bell | Manhattan | Herald Square | 6th Avenue and 34th Street | Bell H: 74" D: 45"; Minerva H: 11'; Left Figure H: 7'4"; Right Figure H: 6'11"; Plinth H: 5" L:10'4" | Bronze, Milford pink granite | Antonin Jean Carles, Paris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
James Madison Tree Marker | US President | Plaque recessed into plinth | Manhattan | Madison Square Park | Between 24th and 25th Street | H: 13" W: 18" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
James S.T. Stranahan | Public Servant, Politcal Figure | Figure on pedestal | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | Entrance between East Drive and Flatbush Avenue | Statue H: 7'8½" W: 2'6¾" D: 2' 9 1/8"; base 2'7" x 2'7"; pedestal H: 7'4" W: 6'3" D: 5'8"; two-step broad base 14'8" square; total H: 8'5" | Bronze (green patina), Knoxville marble (rough), pink granite (polished) | Frederick William MacMonnies | Stanford White | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jane Addams Memorial | Women, Public Servant, Civic Leader | Plaque on plinth | Manhattan | City Hall Park | Plaque H: 9" W: 1'1"; Plinth H: 1'4" W: 1'8" | Bronze, Quincy granite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Joan of Arc Memorial | Animal: equestrian, Women, Religious Leader | Equestrian figure (over life-size) on integral plinth on pedestal | Manhattan | Riverside Park | Riverside Drive at 93rd Street | Total H: 20'4" W: 6'1" D: 12'3" | Bronze, Mohegan granite | Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington | John V. Van Pelt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Job | Religious Leader, Holocaust | Standing figure (life size), integral plinth | Queens | Forest Park | West of 80th Road and Park Lane South junction, near Administration Building | Sculpture H: 5'5" W: 1'9" D: 7"; Base H: 1'5" W: 3'9" D: 3'1" | Bronze, darkly mottled schist | Natan J. Rapoport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller | Writer | Portrait bust on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | North end of mall | Bronze, Saguenan red granite | C.L. Richter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Writer | Bust on pedestal | Manhattan | Bryant Park | Sixth Ave at 40th Street | Overall H: 9'5 ½" W: 1'5 ½" D: 1'1" | Bronze, Swedish black granite | Karl Fischer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Cashmore Marker | Public Servant, Politcal Figure | Ornamented stele with affixed ornaments on base | Brooklyn | Columbus Park | To the right of entrance to New York State Supreme Court Bldg., at Montague and Court Sts. | H: 10' W: 6' D: 2' | Stele--black granite (polished); Base--limestone; Ornaments--bronze; Lettering--gilded | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Ericsson | Civil War, Scientist/Inventor, War Memorial | Figure (heroic scale) on integral plinth, pedestal with four recessed relief plaques | Manhattan | Battery Park | Not presently accessible; under construction. | Figure H: 8'7"; Base H: 7'11" W: 8' D: 8'; Each plaque H: 1' W: 2'3½" | Figure--bronze; Pedestal--black diamond granite (polished); Plaques--bronze | Jonathan Scott Hartley | Frank E. Wallis (new pedestal) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John F. Kennedy Memorial | US President | Bust on pedestal | Brooklyn | Grand Army Plaza | H: 7'4 ½" | Bronze, Regal Grey granite | Neil Estern | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John F. Kennedy Memorial Tree | US President | Zalcolora tree, marker set in ground | Brooklyn | Columbus Park | Granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Finley Walk | Civic Leader | Two cutout silhouettes of walking figure and name attached to pole | Manhattan | Carl Schurz Park | Silhouette A on elevated walk near East 86th Street and Silhouette B at East 81st Street Pedestrian Bridge; Elevated walk over East River Drive | Silhouette H: 3' (approx.). Pole H: 10' | Wrought iron | Edwin Marcus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Golden Park | Writer, Civic Leader | Plaque on right gatepost | Queens | John Golden Park | 33rd Avenue and 215th Place | H: 24" W: 18" D: ½" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Hansborough, Jr. Sign | Public Servant, Civic Leader | Sign | Manhattan | Hansborough Gymnasium and Public Bath | 35 W 134 ST; left side of west entrance | H: 14' W: 4' | Paint on board | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Purroy Mitchel | Politcal Figure | Stele, bust, ornamental wall | Manhattan | Central Park | Fifth Avenue at 90th Street | H: 12'6" W: 12' | North Jay granite, bronze, slate | Adolph Alexander Weinman | Thomas Hastings, Donn Barber | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John T. Brush Stairway | Athlete | Letters set into first landing | Manhattan | Highbridge Park | Edgecombe Avenue and 158th Street | Bronze, concrete | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Wolfe Ambrose | Portrait, Scientist/Inventor, Sculpture, Writer | Stele with bust | Manhattan | Battery Park | Not presently accessible; under construction. | H: 10' W: 6'2" D: 10"; Bust H: 2'3" | Bust--bronze; Stele--Stony Creek granite (polished) | Andrew O'Connor, Jr. (bust); Frederick George Richard Roth (pedestal relief) | Aymar Embury II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
José Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva | Sculpture, Politcal Figure, Public Servant | Standing figure (heroic scale) with integral plinth on pedestal on base decorated with applied medallion | Manhattan | Bryant Park | Avenue of the Americas between West 40th and West 41st Streets | Figure H: 10'3" (includes plinth?); Figure weight: 4,000 pounds (approximate) | Figure, plinth, and medallion--bronze; Pedestal, original base, and replacement base--Barre granite (polished) | José Otavio Correia Lima | Clark and Rapuano | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jose Julian Marti | Animal: equestrian, Civic Leader, Politcal Figure, Writer, Politcal Figure | Equestrian statue (over life-size) on integral plinth on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | Central Park South at Avenue of the Americas | Statue H: 18'6" W: 6'5" D: 12'; Pedestal H: 16'5" W: 8' D: 14' | Bronze, dark Barre granite | Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington | Clarke & Rapuano | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Joseph A. Guider Memorial | Public Servant, Civic Leader | Urn on pedestal | Brooklyn | Dr. Ronald McNair Park | Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue | Bronze, blue-white Westerly granite | Romeo Frazzanito | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Joseph Lisa Memorial Plaque | Politcal Figure | Tablet with incised letters; tree marker | Queens | William F. Moore Park | 108 St., Corona and 51 Avenues | H: 21" W: 24" D: 17" | Granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Joseph Pulitzer | Business Leader | Tablet on plinth | Manhattan | City Hall Park | Northeast corner | Tablet H: 2'4" W: 1'11"; Plinth H: 8" W: 3' D: 2'7" | Bronze, Quincy granite (polished) | Carl Schmitz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Joseph Rodman Drake | Writer | Monolith on square pedestal, with plaque | the Bronx | Joseph Rodman Drake Park | Hunts Point to Longfellow Avenue | H: 8' W: 2' D: 2'; Plaque H: 2' W: 1'3" | Bronze, marble | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Josephine Shaw Lowell | Women, Politcal Figure | Ornamental fountain with tablet set into ground | Manhattan | Bryant Park | Sixth Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets | Lower basin Diameter: 32'; Upper basin Diameter: 13 | Stony Creek granite, bronze | Charles A. Platt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Juan Pablo Duarte | Politcal Figure | Standing figure (over life size), on pedestal | Manhattan | Juan Pablo Duarte Square | Avenue of the Americas and Canal Street | Figure H: 10'6' W: 5' D: 4'; Pedestal H: 8' W: 5' D: 5' | Bronze, granite | Nicola Arrighini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kryeti-Aekyad #2 | Sculpture | Precariously balanced pieces of steel | Manhattan | John Jay Park | East 76-78th Streets and Cherokee Place | H: 7'7" W: 10'11" D: 1'10" (all approximate) | Welded hot-rolled steel (painted black) | Douglas Abdell | Thomas Balsley Associates | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lafayette and Washington | Revolutionary War, War Memorial, US President | Group on pedestal | Manhattan | Lafayette Square | Manhattan Avenue at 114th Street | H: 20'2" W: 15' D: 10'6" | Bronze, Hauteville marble | Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lafayette Memorial | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Bas-relief on stele; terrace | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | 9th Street entrance | Bas-relief H: 10' W: 13' ; Stele H: 19' W: 22' D: 8'10"; Terrace W: 72' D: 35' | Bronze; Milford pink granite (polished) | Daniel Chester French | Henry Bacon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Leiv Eiriksson | Explorer | Relief tablet on stele | Brooklyn | Leif Ericson Park and Square | 66th Street and 4th Avenue | Tablet (top) H: 29" W: 22", Tablet (bottom) H: 8" W: 22"; Stele H: 10'4" W: 2' | Bronze, granite | August Werner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Liberty Avenue War Memorial | Animal: other, War Memorial, World War II | Shaft, plaque, and eagle | Brooklyn | Public Place | Eldert Lane and Liberty and Glenmore Avenues | H: 12' W: 3' D: 3' | Shaft--granite, plaque and eagle--bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Liberty Flagstaff | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Marker and flagstaff | Manhattan | City Hall Park | Near Broadway, under a tree, west side of City Hall Building | H: 1'10" W: 3' | Gray granite | Albert Weinert | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lillian D. Wald | Women, Civic Leader | Plaque on wall | Manhattan | Lillian D. Wald Playground | Cherry, Monroe and Gouverner Streets | 2'8 ½"h x 2' 8 ½"w | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Line of Defense | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Semi-circular tablet on boulder | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | Antile Pass | H: 24¾" W: 33" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lioness and Cubs | Animal: other | Group on integral plinth on pedestal | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | Prospect Park Zoo | Group H: 3' W: 7' D: 2'; Pedestal H: 4' W: 7' D: 2' | Bronze, pink granite | Victor Peters, (von Pieters) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Louie Stern Memorial | Civic Leader | Plaque on boulder | Manhattan | Playground at 177th Street and Cabrini Blvd. | H: 14" W: 14" | Bronze, natural boulder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Louis J. Heintz Memorial | Politcal Figure, Sculpture | Standing figure with integral plinth on a pedestal on a three-step base; a female figure stands at the front of the pedestal in the act of writing an inscription on it | the Bronx | Joyce Kilmer Park | Total H: 19'6" W: 9' D" 9' | Figures--bronze; Pedestal and steps--Somesound granite | Pierre Feitu | William Welles Bosworth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Louis Kossuth | Politcal Figure, Civic Leader | Portrait & group on pedestal | Manhattan | Riverside Park | Riverside Drive at 113th Street | H: 22' W: 22' D: 22' | Bronze, Milford pink granite | John Horvay | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Louis Valentino, Jr. Memorial | Fireman | Flagstaff on cylindrical base with sloping top | Brooklyn | Louis Valentino, Jr. Park and Pier | Coffey Street and Ferris Street | Base diameter 12'6" | Deer Isle granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lt. Joseph Petrosino Plaques | Public Servant, Portrait, Policeman | 2 bronze plaques mounted into gate posts | Manhattan | South entrance piers; Kenmare and Lafayette Streets at Cleveland Place | West plaque: H: 21 3/4" W: 17 1/2"; East plaque: H: 22" W: 17 1/2" | Bronze | Carter Jones | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ludwig Von Beethoven | Composer/Musician | Bust, allegorical figure on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | NW of mall - opposite bandshell | H: 17'2" W: 6'7" D: 6'7" | Bronze, polished barre granite | Henry Baerer copy, Hagens orig | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Luis R. Lopez Memorial | Policeman | Flagstaff on base with relief plaque and two other plaques | Staten Island | Luis R. Lopez Park | Targee Street & Palma Drive | Base H: 9'3"; each (?) plaque H: 1'6" | Flagstaff--steel; base--Canadian pink granite; plaques--bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Major Clarence T. Barrett Memorial | Civil War, Civic Leader, Allegorical | Standing figure with shield and spear (heroic scale) on integral plinth on broad, bilevel pedestal with bas-relief of two martial scenes separated by classical mask on lower level; large oval basin in front, and small drinking fountain in rear | Staten Island | Clarence T. Barrett Memorial | Stuyvesant Place near Borough Hall | Figure H: 8'½" W: 4' D: 2'; Integral plinth Diameter: 3'3"; Pedestal H: 5' W: 12'9" D: 6'; Total H: 13'2" (excluding basin) | Figure--bronze; Pedestal and basin--pink Tennessee marble | Sherry Edmundson Fry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Major William F. Deegan | Civic Leader, Soldier | Boulder with incised inscription | the Bronx | Memorial Grass Strip at East 138th Street, Grand Concourse, and Major Deegan Boulevard | 138th Street and Grand Concourse | H: 7'6" W: 60" D: 55" | Concord granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Margaret Corbin Plaque | Revolutionary War, Women, War Memorial | Plaque | Manhattan | Fort Tryon Park | 190 Street and Fort Washington Avenue | H: 12" W: 18" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Marie Sklodowska Curie | Abstract | Tablet on plinth | Manhattan | City Hall Park | H: 9" W: 13" | Bronze, granite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Marquis de Lafayette | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Portrait statue on pedestal | Manhattan | Union Square Park | Park Avenue South at 16th Street | H: 15' W: 6' D:6' | Bronze, polished Quincy granite | Frederic Auguste Bartholdi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Martin Birdbath | Women | Bird bath | Manhattan | Central Park | Cafeteria pergola, formerly the Lion House | H: 5'6" | Colorado black marble and white marble | Oronzio Maldarelli | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mary Harriman Rumsey | Women, Civic Leader | Tablet | Manhattan | Central Park | Rumsey Playground; E. Drive at 72nd St. | H: 2'9" W: 2'4" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mary Lindley Murray | Revolutionary War, War Memorial, Women | Tablet on boulder | Manhattan | Park Avenue Center Plots | Park Avenue at 37th Street, center island | H: 2' W: 2'9" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maryland Memorial | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Large corinthian column with globe at top | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | Lookout Hill | Column H: 12' Diameter 19" - 26"; Capital H: 29" W: 29" D: 22 1/2"; Globe Diameter 24" | Granite, bronze, marble | Stanford White | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Max Wernik Triangle | Civic Leader | Marker | Queens | Austin Street,125 St. and 84th Drive; Kew Gardens | H: 2' W: 2' D: 4" | Granite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
McGown's Pass Cannons | War Memorial, Revolutionary War, War of 1812 | Cannon and carronade | Manhattan | Central Park | Cannon: L: 62" W: 14.5" Bore: 3.5" Weight: 1120 lbs.; Carronade: L: 39" W: 14.5" Bore: 5.5" Weight: 840 lbs. Plaque: 36" x 13.25" | Iron and bronze | William W. Bosworth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Michael Colombo | Athlete | Tablet on wall | the Bronx | Pelham Bay Park | Split Rock Golf Course; located in waiting room; Currently stored in 5Boro Fragment Room FA cubby 10. | H: 23 7/8" W:17 13/16" D: 1" | Bronze | S.W. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Michael Friedsam Memorial | Philanthropy | Tablet affixed to exterior wall | Manhattan | Central Park | Carousel Building | H: 1'4 ½" W: 3' | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mohandas Gandhi | Philosophy, Politcal Figure | Standing figure (over life-size) with integral plinth on pedestal with plaque | Manhattan | Union Square Park | West side of park, near 14th Street | Figure H: 6'6" W: 1' 9" D: 2' 9"; Pedestal H: 3' 9" W: 2'1" D: 2'6" | Figure and plaque---bronze; pedestal---cast concrete | Kantilal B. Patel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Monsignor Joseph A. McCaffrey | Religious Leader, Policeman | Plaque embedded in flagstaff base | Manhattan | McCaffrey Playground | West 43rd Street between 8th and 9th Avenues | H: 15" W: 20" | Bronze, granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Morty Arkin Memorial Plaque | Public Servant | Plaque | Queens | Astoria Park | Interior wall of recreation building, Morty Arkin Memorial Athletic Field | H: 1'4" W: 2' | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mother Goose | Literary | Group on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | Rumsey Playground, E. Drive at 72nd St. | H: 8'8" W: 4'6" D: 5'10" | Stony Creek and Deer Isle granites | Fred. G.R. Roth, Walt. Beretta | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mozart Memorial | Composer/Musician | Bust (heroic scale) on pedestal decorated with applied wreath | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | Concert Grove | Bust H: 4'6"; Pedestal H: 11' W: 4'5" D: 4'5"; Pedestal decoration Diameter: 2' | Bust and wreath--bronze; Pedestal--granite | Augustus Max Johannes Mueller | Kaltwasser | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mrs. Catherine I. Carroll | Sculpture, Women, Civic Leader | Tablet | Brooklyn | Metropolitan Pool and Public Bath | Located to the left up the entrance, in the stairwell one flight up.; Bedford Avenue and North First Street | Bronze, stone | Pietro Montana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nathan Hale | Revolutionary War, War Memorial, Sculpture | Figure (heroic scale) on pedestal, bandeau at base | Manhattan | City Hall Park | In front of City Hall steps | Figure H: 9' W: 3' D: 2'; Base W: 2'3" D: 1'7¾"; Pedestal H: 6'2" Diameter: 4'; Bandeau H: 2' Diameter: 4'5" | Bronze (green patina), Massachusetts pink granite (polished) | Frederick William MacMonnies | Stanford White | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Netherland Monument | Colonial | Sculpted flagstaff pedestal | Manhattan | Battery Park | Not presently accessible; under construction. | Total H: 12'; Top W: 2'6" D: 2'6"; Bottom W: 7' D: 7' | Bencha granite, bronze | H.A. Van den Eyden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Night Presence IV | Sculpture | Openwork construction: undulating ribbon forms frame enlaged doorknob forms and a cut-out of a bird in profile. | Manhattan | Park Avenue Center Plots (59th to 96th Streets) | East 92nd Street and Park Avenue, center median | H: 22' W: 13' D: 9'; Weight: 4½ tons | Cor-Ten steel | Louise Nevelson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Patrolman Alfred Loreto Tablet | Policeman | Two plaques on west side of fieldhouse | the Bronx | Tomlinson, Van Nest, and Haight Avenues; west side of brick fieldhouse | H: 15" W: 26" | Bronze | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peace Form One | Sculpture, Public Servant, Civic Leader | Tall obelisk with variegated surface on a pentagonal base; plaque | Manhattan | Ralph J. Bunche Park | First Avenue at 43rd Street | Obelisk H: 50'; Base W: 21'4" | Obelisk--stainless steel; Base--bronze; Paving--bluestone | Daniel La Rue Johnson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pete McArdle Memorial | Athlete | 2 vertical poles on separate bases, 3 granite markers | the Bronx | Van Cortlandt Park | Broadway and 252nd Street | H: 15' | Aluminum, granite | Al Puma, S. Puma Inc. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peter Caesar Alberti Marker | Immigration | Marker on plinth | Manhattan | Battery Park | Perimeter of park on Battery Place between Greenwich and Washington Streets | Front H: 4"; Rear H: 1'2" W: 1'8" D: 1'4" (all approximate) | Granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peter Cooper | Sculpture, Business Leader, Civic Leader, Philanthropy | Seated figure (over life-size), on pedestal, under a canopy | Manhattan | Cooper Park | Bowery & 7th Street; Not presently accessible; under construction. | Figure--bronze; Pedestal and canopy--marble and granite | Augustus Saint-Gaudens | Stanford White | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peter Pan | Literary Character | Figure on hexagonal base | Manhattan | Carl Schurz Park | Bronze, black granite (honed) | C.A. Hafner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peter Stuyvesant | Colonial, Politcal Figure | Statue on pedestal | Manhattan | Stuyvesant Park | 2nd Avenue at 16th St. | Swensons pink granite, bronze | Gertrude Whitney | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Phillip Mazzei Flagstaff | Revolutionary War, War Memorial, Revolutionary War | Flagstaff on base | the Bronx | Pelham Parkway Houses Playground | Mace Avenue and Williamsbridge Road; Philip Mazzei Playground | Diameter: 48" | Steel, granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Police Officer Jose A. Perez Plaque | Policeman | Plaque set in pavement | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | 3rd Street entrance, north side | L: 1' W: 10" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Police World's Fair | Policeman | Tablet on plinth | Queens | Flushing Meadows / Corona Park | Queens Museum of Art (formerly the New York City Building) | H: 30" W: 35 ½" | Bronze | Walter Beretta | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Polly Gordon Walk | Women | Cutout silhouette of woman watering flowers and name on pole | Manhattan | near park entrance at East 84th Street | overall= 9' 5" h, sign= 3' h, 2' l | Iron and steel, painted semi-gloss black | GN Associates | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prison Ship Martyrs Monument | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Doric column surmounted by a bronze urn, on a terrace approached by 100 steps; eagles at corners of terrace; plaque and tablet | Brooklyn | Fort Greene Park | Myrtle to Dekalb Avenues, Edwards and Cumberland Streets | Column H: 114' D: 17'6", Total H: 143' | Bronze, Deer Isle granite | Adolph Alexander Weinman | Stanford White | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prison Window | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Ruins of old prison with tablet | the Bronx | Van Cortlandt Park | East of Van Cortlandt house | H: 2'1" W: 3'1" | Holland brick, Holland stone, slate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Provost Prison | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Tablet on plinth | Manhattan | City Hall Park | Park Row, east of City Hall | Tablet H: 18" W: 20"; Plinth H: 20: W: 22" | Bronze, Barre granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Puerto Rican Sun | Sculpture | Assemblage of upright plates | the Bronx | Fox Playground | Fox and 156th Streets | H: 22' W: 25'6" D: 22' at base; Weight: 10,000 pounds | Cor-ten steel | Rafael Ferrer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pulitzer Fountain | Allegorical | Fountain with sculptures: five basins in a stepped pattern support at their highest point a sixth, shell-form basin holding a standing female figure (over life-size); two rams-head horns of plenty flank the third basin | Manhattan | Grand Army Plaza | Fifth Avenue at 59th Street | Fountain H: 22' W: 72' D: 84'; Figure H: 7'9" | Lower basins and horns--Hauteville marble; Sixth basin and figure--bronze | Karl Bitter and Karl Gruppe (figure); Orazio Piccirilli (horns) | Thomas Hastings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Putnam Memorial | Educator | Fountain | Staten Island | Veterans Park | Herberton to Park Aves, Bennett to Vreeland Streets | Westerly granite | Virgil W. Fuller | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Quadriga: the Triumphal Progress of Columbia | Civil War, War Memorial, Animal: equestrian, Allegorical | Quadriga and three female figures (heroic scale) | Brooklyn | Grand Army Plaza | Atop Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch | H: 25' W: 32' D: 16'; each trumpeter H: 11' | Bronze | Frederick William MacMonnies | Stanford White | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rabbi Dr. I. Usher Kirshblum Memorial | Religious Leader | Marker embedded in traffic circle | Queens | Freedom Square | Freedom Square, Main St. & Vleigh Pl., Kew Gardens | H: 6" W: 2'1" D: 1" | Light granite (unpolished) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ralph Ellison Memorial | Writer | Sculpture; rectangular bronze structure with cut-out male figure; four engraved stone markers | Manhattan | Riverside Park | 150th Street and Riverside Drive | H: 15' W: 7'6" D: 6" Weight: 5,000 lbs | Bronze and deer isle granite | Elizabeth Catlett | Ken Smith, Landscape Architect | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Raoul Wallenberg Marker | Civic Leader | Marker on plinth on base | Queens | Forest Park | Raoul Wallenberg Square, Metropolitan Avenue and Park Lane South | Marker H: 4" at front L: 2' W: 2' | Marker and plinth--granite; base--concrete | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reinhard E. Kaltenmeier Tablet | Public Servant | Tablet on plinth | Staten Island | Reinhard E. Kaltenmeier Playground | H: 15" W: 30" | Bronze, concrete | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reverend Benjamin J. Lowry | Religious Leader, Civic Leader | Bust on pedestal | Brooklyn | Underhill Gore Park | Underhill, Pacific, Washington and Atlantic Avenues | Bust H: 2'2" W: 1'6" D: 11"; Pedestal H: 6'7" W: 2'6" D: 2' 6" | Stainless steel, Ebony Mist granite | Robert W. Pugh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reverend Matthew J. Crosson Tablet | Christian | Tablet on wall | Queens | Reverend Matthew J. Crosson Memorial Park | TRIANGLE F/BQE; Woodside Avenue at 69th Street | H: 15" W: 23" | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Richard Morris Hunt Memorial | Artist | Bust (over life-size) on stele in an arc-shaped space formed by an exedra whose back supports columns and a cornice; at each end of the exedra is a standing female figure; mosaic floor; approached by two steps | Manhattan | Central Park | Perimeter wall, Fifth Avenue at 70th Street | Total H: 13' W: 31'; Bust H: 2'6"; Figure proper right H: 6'6"; Figure proper left H: 6'7½" | Bust and figures--bronze; exedra, columns, etc.--Westerly granite, | Daniel Chester French | Bruce Price | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Richard S. Newcombe | Politcal Figure, Public Servant | Tablet on stele in cntr.of circular wall | Queens | Richard S. Newcombe Square | Kew Gardens Rd, 80th Road, Queens Boulevard | see memo | Bronze, brick wall, granite stele | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Richard Tucker | Composer/Musician | Bust (over life-size) on pedestal | Manhattan | Richard Tucker Park | West 66th Street, Broadway, and Columbus Avenue | total h 7' | Bronze, granite | Milton Hebald | Abramowitz, Harris, Kingsland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Burns | Sculpture, Writer | Seated figure (over life-size) with scroll and plough at feet, on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | South end of Literary Walk | H: 14'10" W: 10' D: 10' | Figure--bronze; Pedestal--brick core topped and faced with granite | Sir John Steell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial | Public Servant, Politcal Figure | Bust on pedestal, base | Brooklyn | Columbus Park | In front of New York State Supreme Court building, at Montague and Court Streets | Total H: 9'3"; Base L: 6'6" W: 6'6" | Bust--bronze; pedestal and base--Kitledge gray granite (New Milford, New Hampshire) | Anneta Duveen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert F. Wagner Tree Marker | Politcal Figure | Plaque set in ground | Manhattan | Madison Avenue between East 60th and East 61st Streets | H: 11" x W: 1'4" | Bronze | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Fulton | Scientist/Inventor | Standing figure (heroic scale) on integral plinth on pedestal | Brooklyn | Fulton Park | Schenectady Avenue and Fulton Street | Figure H: 10'6"; pedestal H: 4'6" W: 5'3" D: 5'3" | Figure--bronze, pedestal facing--dark Quincy granite (polished) | Caspar Buberl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Moses Memorial | Politcal Figure, Public Servant | Plaque on wall | Manhattan | Central Park | The Arsenal; 3rd floor conference room | Bronze | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rocket Thrower | Sculpture | Figure statue, heroic scale | Queens | Flushing Meadows / Corona Park | East of Unisphere, Hall of Astronauts | H: 42 ½'h (to grade) | Bronze | Donald De Lue | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Romeo and Juliet | Literary Character | Over life-size group of two figures on pedestal | Manhattan | Near entrance of Delacorte Theater | Bronze and granite | Milton Hebald | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ronald McNair | Composer/Musician, Educator, Explorer, Portrait, Scientist/Inventor, Sculpture | Bust (life size) recessed in pyramidal monument, two plaques with reliefs | Brooklyn | Dr. Ronald McNair Park | Eastern Pkwy, Washington to Classon Aves | H: 9' W: 5'6" at base | Missouri red granite (polished); bronze | Ogundipe Fayomi (AKA Claude Audrey) | DPR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Roscoe Conkling | Sculpture, Politcal Figure | Standing figure (over life size) with integral plinth, on pedestal | Manhattan | Madison Square Park | Madison Avenue at 23rd Street | H: 14'11" W: 10'4" D: 10'4" | Bronze, Quincy granite | John Quincy Adams Ward | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rose and Crown Tavern | Revolutionary War, War Memorial | Tablet on boulder | Staten Island | Richmond Rd., New Dorp Lane | Tablet H: 18" W: 22"; Boulder H: 4' W: 3' D: 3' | Bronze, natural boulder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rudolph B. Taylor Plaque | Public Servant | Tablet | Manhattan | Central Park | Conservatory Garden, 105th St and 5th Avenue | 6"h x 8"w | Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Samuel Finley Breese Morse | Scientist/Inventor | Portrait statue on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | E. 72nd St. and 5th Avenue entrance (formerly in the Mall) | H: 13' W: 5'6" D: 5' | Bronze, Quincy granite | Byron M. Pickett | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Samuel J. Tilden | Politcal Figure | Statue on pedestal | Manhattan | Riverside Park | Riverside Drive at 112th Street | 20'h x 40"w x 20"d | Bronze, Stony Creek granite | William Ordway Partridge | Wilder & White | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Samuel Sullivan Cox | Politcal Figure | Standing figure (over life-size) with integral plinth, on pedestal with two plaques, on base | Manhattan | Tompkins Square Park | Avenue A at 8th Street | Figure H: 8' W: 4' D: 4'; Pedestal H: 11' W: 7'1" D: 7'1" | Figure and plaques--bronze; Pedestal--Barre granite (polished); Base--concrete | Louise Lawson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sarah Willets Meyer | Women | Plaque on wall | Queens | THROGS NECK BRIDGE UNDERPASS; Totten Avenue, off Bell Boulevard, Cross Island Expressway | H: 23" W: 36 ½" D: ½" | Bronze, concrete | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seal of the State of New York (aka Excelsior) | Allegorical | Eagle atop shield on integral plinth between two female figures, each on integral plinth | Manhattan | Central Park | Under exterior staircase, front entrance, the Arsenal | Eagle h 2'10½" x l 3' x w 4"; each figure h 2'3½" x l 11½" x w 4" | Cast iron, granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Senator Robert F. Wagner Memorial | Politcal Figure | Portrait bust on pedestal | Manhattan | Wagner Houses, 2nd Avenue at 120th Street | Bust H: 3'6" | Bronze, granite | Georg John Lober | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seventh Regiment Memorial | Civil War, War Memorial | Statue on pedestal, 4 bronze roundels | Manhattan | Central Park | West Drive opposite 67th St. | 21'4"h x 10'6"w x 10'6'd | Bronze, Barre granite | John Quincy Adams Ward, 1869 | Richard Morris Hunt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simon Bolivar Monument | Sculpture, Civic Leader, Politcal Figure, Animal: equestrian, Politcal Figure | Equestrian statue (heroic scale) on pedestal with four coats of arms | Manhattan | Central Park | Central Park South and Avenue of the Americas | Statue H: 13'6" L: 13'; Pedestal H: 20'4" L: 12'6" W: 6'1" | Statue and coats of arms--bronze; Pedestal--black granite (polished) | Sally Jane Farnham | Clarke & Rapuano | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sir Walter Scott | Writer | Portrait statue on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | Mall | H: 18' W: 13'6" D: 5'6" | Bronze, Aberdeen granite | Sir John Steell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Skagerrak | Sculpture | Three solid rectangular forms, joined at different angles in a line, and balanced on three points | Manhattan | Bellevue South Park | East 26th Street to East 28th Street, and 2nd Avenue | H: 7' W: 7' D: 16' | Cor-ten steel | Antoni H. Milkowski | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Socrates | Philosophy | Seated figure (heroic scale) on base in form of right trianguloid | Queens | Athens Square Park | Facing sunken plaza | Figure H: 6'; Base H: 7'6" W: 4' D: 7'6" | Figure--bronze; Base--black Carolina granite | Anthony Frudakis | Stamatios P. Lykos, AIA, ASLA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch | Civil War, War Memorial, US President | Triumphal arch; bas-relief figures in spandrels on south face; seal of city of Brooklyn and seal of New York state in spanrels on north face; sixteen medallions, four on each of the pier stages at south and north faces | Brooklyn | Grand Army Plaza | Total h 80' x w 80' x d 50'; archway h 50' x w 35' | Granite | Philip Martiny (spandrel figures) | John Hemingway Duncan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Soldiers and Sailors Monument | Civil War, War Memorial | Ornamental circular temple | Manhattan | Riverside Park | Riverside Drive at West 90th Street | H: 100' D: 50' | East Dorset Vermont marble (see memo) | Paul E. Duboy | Charles & Arthur Stoughton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Soldiers and Sailors Monument | Civil War, War Memorial, Allegorical | Standing angel figure (over life-size) holding a laurel wreath in her left hand and a palm bough in her right,, on integral plinth on pedestal | Queens | Major John W. Mark Park | 173rd Street and Hillside | Figure H: 10'9"; Pedestal H: 10' W: 3'6" D: 3'6" | Bronze; Westerly granite | Frederick Wellington Ruckstull | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Soldiers Monument | Civil War, War Memorial | Obelisk with applied decorations surmounted by figure (heroic scale), die with decorations on all four faces (?), graduated base; four figures (life size) on corner pedestals; fenced square with four cannons at corners and four eagles on corner piers | Queens | Calvary Cemetery Veterans Park | Laurel Hill Boulevard | Obelisk h 40' (?); base l 8' x w 8'; top figure h 10' (?); fence l 40' x w 40' | Obelisk, pedestals, and piers--Barre granite; decorations, figures, cannons, and eagles--bronze; fence--iron | Daniel Draddy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sophocles | Writer, Sculpture | Heroic-scale figural sculpture on pedestal | Queens | 30th Avenue between 30th and 29th Streets | Figure: H: 7.5'; Pedestal: H: 2' | Bronze and Mountain Green granite | Chris Vilardi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Soul In Flight: Arthur Ashe Memorial | Athlete, Civic Leader | Standing male figure, left arm pointing upward, with integral plinth bolted to a plate on a footing, surrounded by a planting bed contained within low wall bearing inscriptions | Queens | Flushing Meadows / Corona Park | United States National Tennis Center | Figure H: 14' | Figure--bronze; plate---brass; footing---concrete | Eric Fischl | Mark Sullivan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Susan E. Wagner | Women | Tablet on plinth | Manhattan | Park Avenue Center Plots | 75th Street and Park Avenue | 10"h x 14"w | Bronze, concrete | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Temperance Fountain | Allegorical | Square kiosk with four supporting columns over a drinking fountain, finial female figure on pedestal | Manhattan | Tompkins Square Park | Near Avenue A, south of 9th Street transverse | kiosk h 13' x l 6'6" x w 6'6"; figure h 5'1½" | Kiosk (and fountain?)--gray North Jay granite; original figure--zinc; replacement figure--bronze | Bertel Thorvaldsen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Army: Genius of Patriotism Urging American Soldiers On To Victory | Civil War, War Memorial, Sculpture | Group in high relief on platform | Brooklyn | Grand Army Plaza | Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, south façade, west pier | H: 22' W: 11'3¾" D: 7'4½" | Bronze | Frederick William MacMonnies | Stanford White | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Falconer | Animal: other, Sculpture | Standing figure (over life-size) holding bird aloft on integral plinth, on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | West 72nd Street (transverse road) | Figure H: 12' W: 2'6" D: 3'10"; Pedestal H: 4'7" W: 3'6" D: 4'5" | Bronze, Barre granite (polished) | George Blackwell Simonds | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Family | Sculpture | Group of five figures (two large, three small) with integral support and plinth on pedestal | Manhattan | New Abingdon Playground | Bleecker and West 11th Street, north-west corner, sitting area under Linden trees | Sculpture H: 7'6" W: 7'6"; Pedestal H: 6' W: 4' D: 3' | Sculpture--bronze (brown patina); Pedestal--Carnelian red granite | Chaim Gross | Karahan Schwarting Architectural Co. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Horse Tamers | Animal: equestrian | Two groups, each consisting of two horse figures and one mounted male figure, on two pedestals | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | Coney Island Avenue at Park Circle Entrance | North group H: 16' W: 6'8" D:10'10"; South group H: 17' W: 6'8" D: 10'9½"; Each pedestal H: 20' W: 11'6" D: 17'6" | Bronze, granite | Frederick William MacMonnies | Stanford White | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Immigrants | Immigration | Group (heroic scale) on base | Manhattan | Battery Park | South of Castle Clinton | Group H: 10' W: 5' D: 14'2½"; Base H: 1'1" W: 8' D: 17'7" | Bronze, Minnesota Rideau Red granite | Luis Sanguino | Frank Luzi, P.E./P.C. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Indian Hunter | Sculpture, Animal: other | Figure (over life-size) and dog on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | South end of the Mall | H: 10' W: 5' D: 6'3" | Bronze; Rockport granite (polished) | John Quincy Adams Ward | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Navy: American Sailors At Sea Urged On By the Genius of Patriotism | Civil War, Sculpture, War Memorial | Group in high relief on platform | Brooklyn | Grand Army Plaza | Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, south façade, east pier | H: 22'3" W: 11'3¾" D: 7'5½" | Bronze | Frederick William MacMonnies | Stanford White | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The New York Times Capsule | Abstract | Time capsule, containing more than 100 objects and artifacts and resting on a monolith; plaque set in a paving block | Manhattan | Theodore Roosevelt Park | entry plaza outside the Columbus Avenue pavilion of The American Museum of Natural History | H: 5'; weight 2,800 pounds | Capsule--stainless steel; monolith--black diabase granite (polished); paving blocks--Milford pink granite | Santiago Calatrava | Polshek Partnership | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Tempest (Prospero and Miranda) | Literary Character | Bronze group, granite pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | Delacorte Theatre | Bronze, Chelmsford granite, tool pitch | Milton Hebald | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Theodor Herzl Memorial | Civic Leader, Religious Leader | Flagstaff and base with tablet | Queens | Freedom Square | Main Street and Vleigh Place, Kew Gardens | Tablet H: 2'2" W: 3'9" D: 1'1"; Base Diameter" 9' | Bronze, Stony Creek granite | Joseph Dilorenzi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thomas Moore | Writer | Portrait bust on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | Poet's Corner, East Driv, near 60th Street | Overall H: 12' 9" W: 4'9" D: 4'9" | Bronze, Conway green granite | D.B. Sheahan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thomas Moore Memorial | Writer | Bust on ornamented pedestal | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | Flower Garden | Bust H: 3'6"; Pedestal H: 9' W: 4'3" D: 4'3"; Pedestal ornament Diameter: 3' | Bronze, granite | John G. Draddy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tigress and Cubs | Animal | Animal group | Manhattan | Central Park | Central Park Zoo; intelligence garden (see memo) | 6'3"h x 3'w x 8'6" | Bronze, Deer isle granite | Auguste Cain (1822-1894) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tree of Hope III | Sculpture | Polychrome sculpture | Manhattan | Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. at 131st Street | H: 8' | Steel, painted | Algernon Miller | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tulip Tree | Colonial | Tablet on natural boulder | Manhattan | Inwood Hill Park | H: 1'6" W: 2' | Bronze | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ulysses Simpson Grant | Civil War, Animal: equestrian, US President, War Memorial | Equestrian figure in high relief | Brooklyn | Grand Army Plaza | Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, east pier, inside archway | Bronze | Thomas Eakins; William Rudolph O'Donovan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ulysses Simpson Grant | Civil War, War Memorial, US President | Equestrian figure on integral plinth on pedestal | Brooklyn | Grant Square Gore | Bedford Avenue and Bergen Street | Figure H: 12' W: 18' D: 26'; Pedestal H: 15'2" W: 18'6" D: 34' | Bronze, dark Barre granite | William Ordway Partridge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vatican Shrine | Religious Leader | 1/4 round bench, exedra | Queens | Flushing Meadows / Corona Park | Site of former Vatican Pavillion, east of Fountain | Granite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Verrazzano Memorial Flagstaff | Explorer, Portrait, Sculpture | Flagpole base, ornamental pedestal with circular relief sculpture | Brooklyn | John J. Carty Park | Fort Hamilton Pkwy. and 95th Street | 29" diameter (bronze relief sculpture) | Black and white marble, bronze, Italian stones | Albino Manca | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Victor Herbert | Composer/Musician | Bust on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | Mall, across from Bandshell | Total H: 11'7" W: 4'8" D: 4'3" | Bronze, Stony Creek granite | Edmond Thomas Quinn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Von Weber Memorial | Composer/Musician | Bust on pedestal | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | Flower Garden | Bust H: 4'1 ½" | Bronze, Barre granite | Chester Beach | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Waldo Hutchins | Civic Leader | Exedra with sundial | Manhattan | Central Park | 5th Avenue at 72nd Street | H: 3'7" W: 27'3" D:16'4" | Concord white granite, bronze | Piccirilli Brothers (exedra); Paul Manship (bronze) | Eric Gugler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Washington A. Roebling Memorial | Civic Leader, Scientist/Inventor | Bas relief plaque recessed in die | Brooklyn | Columbus Park | In front of New York State Supreme Court bldg, at Montague and Court Sts | see memo | Bronze, granite | S. Hemming (bas relief) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Washington Irving Memorial | Writer | Bust on pedestal | Brooklyn | Prospect Park | Flower Garden | Bronze, granite | James Wilson Alexander MacDonald | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Washington Square Arch | Revolutionary War, War Memorial, US President | Triumphal arch, with two eagles, spandrel figures, two pier sculptures | Manhattan | Washington Square Park | H: 73'6" W:56'10"; Span 30' | Tuckahoe marble | F.W. MacMonnies, spandrel figures; Philip Martiny, eagles | Stanford White | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William Cullen Bryant | Sculpture, Writer | Seated figure (over life-size) with intrgral plinth on a pedestal under an archiform canopy, with a large urn and a balustrade at either side | Manhattan | Bryant Park | Figure H: 6' W: 3'6"; Canopy H: 30' | Bronze, marble | Herbert Adams | Thomas Hastings, Carrere and Hastings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William E. Kelly | Civic Leader, Politcal Figure | Portrait plaque, stele | Brooklyn | William E. Kelly Memorial Park | Avenue S and East 14th Street | H: 60" W: 50" D: 32"; Plaque Diameter:12 ¼" | Bronze and Barre granite | L.N. Anderson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William Earl Dodge | Writer, Civic Leader | Standing figure (over life-size) on pedestal | Manhattan | Bryant Park | Fgure H: 7'6" W: 2'10" D: 2'4"; Pedestal H: 6'6" W: 3'8" D: 3'8" | Bronze, granite | John Quincy Adams Ward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William Henry Seward | Politcal Figure | Portrait statue on pedestal | Manhattan | Madison Square Park | Fifth Avenue at 23rd St. | H: 17'9" W: 7'2" D: 10'1" | Bronze, red Levante marble | Randolph Rogers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William Jay Gaynor Memorial | Politcal Figure, Public Servant, Allegorical | Bust on pedestal in front of a broad stele with paired bas-reliefs; stele is on a platform reached by two steps | Brooklyn | S. Parkes Cadman Plaza | Near walkway to Brooklyn Bridge | Bust H: 3' W: 2'8" D: 1'7"; Pedestal H: 4' W: 1' 6 1/2" D: 1'6"; Stele H: 9'10" W: 16'10" D: 6' | Bust and bas-reliefs--bronze; Pedestal, stele, platform--pink Milford granite | Adolph Alexander Weinman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William L. Kavanagh | Civic Leader, Politcal Figure | Incised inscription on gatepost | Manhattan | Chelsea Park | Gate Post, 9th Avenue at 28th Street | H: 5'10" W: 2' D: 2' | Deer Isle granite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William Shakespeare | Writer | Portrait statue on pedestal | Manhattan | Central Park | Literary Mall | H: 17'11" W: 8' D: 8' | Bronze, Westerly granite, Rockport granite | John Quincy Adams Ward | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William T. Stead Memorial | Labor, Civic Leader, Allegorical | Bas-relief plaque on stele: plaque has enframed bust in profile facing proper left, festoons of foliage above and beside frame; standing figures, knight and angel (reduced size), support inscription | Manhattan | Central Park | Fifth Avenue at 91st Street, against park wall | Plaque H: 4' W: 5'; stele H: 7'2" W: 6' | Bronze, Indiana limestone | George William Frampton | Carrere and Hastings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William Tecumseh Sherman | Civil War, War Memorial, Allegorical, Soldier | Group (heroic scale) consisting of equestrian figure and female figure on pedestal decorated with six applied wreaths (three on each side), plaque set in pavement | Manhattan | Grand Army Plaza | Horse figure H: 14'6"; equestrian figure total H: 15'6"; Genius of Victory figure H: 10'6"; pedestal L: 42'6" W: 30'8"; total H: 24'4"; plaque L: 2'1" W: 10" | Group and wreaths--bronze (gilded); pedestal--Stony Creek granite (polished); plaque--bronze; pavement: bluestone | Augustus Saint-Gaudens; Alexander Phimister Proctor | Charles Follen McKim | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William White Niles | Public Servant | Tablet on flagstaff base | the Bronx | Bronx River Parkway | 226th Street, Bronx Boulevard | Tablet H: 29" W: 17¾" D: ½" | Bronze, Deer Island granite | Stanton Studio | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wireless Operators Memorial | Labor, Sculpture | Inscribed cenotaph with three large plaques (one broad, two narrow), one medium plaque, and seven small plaques; fountain; two benches | Manhattan | Battery Park | Not presently accessible; under construction. | Cenotaph H: 8'10"; fountain diameter 7' | Cenotaph, fountain, and benches--Quincy yellow granite; plaques--bronze | Edward S. Hewitt and Will L. Bottomley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wollman Portrait | Women | Portrait of Betty Kohn Wollman | Manhattan | Central Park, South of Dairy (E63rd and 6th Ave equivalent); Wollman Memorial Skating Rink, on wall adjacent to concession | Approx. H: 35.5" W: 29.5"; 45" by 36.75" (framed) | Oil on canvas | Boris Barnhard Gordon, artist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Woman's Health Protective Association | Women | Stele, exedra, drinking fountain | Manhattan | Riverside Park | Riverside Drive at 116th Street | H: 11'3" W: 20'9" D: 2'2" | Knoxville, Tennessee marble | Bruno Louis Zimm |