Copyright issues (the fine print)

Please respect the efforts of sculptors, photographers and owners by not reproducing their works without permission, when permission is required.

• Artist: publication of photographs (in print, on the Internet, or by other means) of sculpture that is still under copyright requires the permission of the artist. It doesn't matter if the work is on public property. Works created before1923 and not substantially modified later are in the public domain, free of artists' copyrights. Many post-1923 works are also in the public domain, but check the Stanford and University of North Carolina summaries of public domain for specifics. If a work is or might be under copyright, be prepared to demonstrate that you have been diligent in attempting to reach an artist or his heirs via searches of the Net, queries to the National Sculpture Society or the National Academy of Design, contact with galleries that carry his work, etc.

• Photographer: If you did not take a post-1923 photo yourself, you must also request the photographer's permission to use his image. All the photos below were taken by Dianne Durante. For permission to publish them, email dldurante[at]earthlink.net.

• Owner: As far as I can tell, the New York City government does not care if you publish works that it owns and displays on public property. If you take a photo of an object in an institution such as the Metropolitan Museum, however, you must request permission before publishing it. Think about it: they house the item, keep it in good condition, protect it from thieves, and make it accessible to you. If they want to allow it to be published only with their permission, they have the right.

• Liberty Island, New York Harbor

• Essay 1 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.

• Index terms: allegory, allegorical, Liberty Enlightening the World, Neoclassical, Declaration of Independence, shackles, Gustave Eiffel, Edouard-Rene Lefebvre de Laboulaye, Franco-American alliance, French, France, immigration, Emma Lazarus, New Colossus

• Battery Park, Promenade across from Gangway #5 (the Statue of Liberty / Ellis Island Ferry boarding ramp).
• Discussed in the Battery Park podcast
• Index terms: Spanish-American War, Dewey Arch, sailor, Admiral George Dewey

• Pier A, southwest end of Battery Park, in the water.
• Discussed in the Battery Park podcast
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• Index terms: war memorial

• Battery Park, west side
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• Index terms: infantry, rifle, flags

John Ericsson, by Jonathan Scott Hartley, 1903

• Location: Battery Park, north of the Eisenhower Mall, between Castle Clinton and Battery Place.
• See Essay 2 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Also discussed in detail in Forgotten Delights: The Producers (to read that excerpt in PDF format, click here) and in the Battery Park podcast.
• Index terms: USS Monitor, CSS Virginia, USS Merrimac, Civil War, naval, USS Princeton, Battle of the Ironclads, 19th-c. firefighting equipment

• Battery Park at the water, near where the ferry for the Statue of Liberty departs.
• Listed in the walking tour of animal sculptures. Discussed in the Battery Park podcast.
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• Index terms: World War II, Second World War, naval, eagle, wreath, memorial

• Battery Park near the East Coast Memorial. As of early 2008, in storage during subway renovation.
• Click here to read about its connection with the Titanic.

• Battery Park (in storage until 2008 or 2009, during subway renovation)
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• Index terms: Coast Guard, World War 2, wounded soldier

• Battery Park (in storage until 2008 or 2009 during subway renovation)
• Brief mention with East Coast Memorial. Essay 3  in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Also discussed in detail in Forgotten Delights: The Producers. Listed in walking tour flyer, Figures from American History to 1800. Salute for April.
• Index terms: Italy, Francis I of France, allegorical, allegory, Truth, Justice, Carlo Barsotti, Italian immigrants, Henry Hudson

• Battery Park, south wall of the Concession Building,  tucked away in the corner of the American Cafe's patio. Note: the bronze bust has been missing for years; only the granite frame inscribed with a map of the Ambrose Channel remains.
• Index terms: Ambrose Lightship, Ambrose Channel, navigation, New York Harbor map, engineer

• Battery Park, just north of Castle Clinton and southeast of Ericsson.
• Discussed in detail in Forgotten Delights: The Producers.
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• Index terms: immigration, African-American, Jewish, mother and child, luggage, baggage

• Robert F. Wagner, Jr., Park (near Battery Park).
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• Index terms: animals

• In front of the United States Customs House, facing Bowling Green; figures of maritime nations on the cornice
• Essay 4 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Brief mention with East Coast Memorial. Listed in the walking tour of animal sculptures.
• Notecard with detail of the figure of America

• Index terms: allegory, allegorical, Asia, Africa, Europe, America, snake, tiger, animal, lion, Egyptian monuments, sphinx, solar disk, Horus, aegis, Parthenon reliefs, eagle, wheel of progress, Native American, Greece, Rome, Frank Edwin Elwell, Phoenicia, Frederick Ruckstull, Genoa, Augustus Lukeman, Venice, Spain, Mary Lawence Tonetti, Holland, Portugal, Louis Saint Gaudens, Denmark, Johannes Gelert, Belgium, Albert Jaegers, France, England, Charles Grafly, Germany, Karl Bitter, eagle, Peace, Strength, Cass Gilbert

• Originally on the Coliseum at Columbus Circle, now on the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel Building on Battery Place, near Bowling Green.
• See "The Case of the Ponderously Peripatetic Sculptures"
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• Index terms: coats of arms, New York State, New York City, Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, ships, Phrygian cap, Liberty, Justice with balance, Triborough Bridge, windmill, beaver, Dutch, Native American

• North end of Bowling Green (Broadway between Beaver and Exchange).
• Essay 5 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan; see also Bibliography & out-takes for Essay 5. Listed in the walking tour of animal sculptures.
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• Index terms: Wall Street, bull market, New York Stock Exchange

•  Second-floor level of the original American Surety Building, 100 Broadway, just north of Wall. The ground floor is presently occupied by Borders Books.
• Index terms: allegory, allegorical

Abraham de Peyster, by Geroge Edwin Bissell, 1986

• Hanover Square (William St. between Pearl and Stone Sts.)

• Listed in walking tour flyer, Figures from American History to 1800.

• Index terms: New Amsterdam, New Netherlands, New York City mayor, wig

• Trinity Church graveyard, facing Broadway
• Index terms: wig, lawyer? Judge?

Integrity Protecting the Works of Man. by John Quincy Adams Ward, architect George P. Post, 1903

• New York Stock Exchange pediment, Broad Street between Wall and Exchange

• Index terms: wealth, business, agriculture, mining, electricity, surveyors, builders, mechanical arts

George Washington, by John Quincy Adams Ward,  pedestal by Richard Morris Hunt, 1883

• Wall and Nassau Sts.

• Essay 6 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Listed in walking tour flyer, Figures from American History to 1800.

• Index terms: Neoclassical, first presidential inauguration, Constitution, United States president

Double Check, by J. Seward Johnson, 1982; replaced 2007

• Liberty Plaza, just east of the World Trade Center site.

• Discussed in detail in Forgotten Delights: The Producers.

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• Index terms: businessman, briefcase, calculator

Dreaming of Far Away Places: The Ships Come to Washington Market, by Donna Dennis, 1988

• Fence of Public School 234, at 300 Greenwich Ave., just south of Chambers St.

• Discussed in detail in Forgotten Delights: The Producers.

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• Index terms: steamboat, clipper ship, tugboat, Staten Island Ferry, tanker, schooner

• East side of Greenwich St. at ??? [seen and photographed, but location not noted]
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• Index terms: firefighters, September 11 2001, World Trade Center, Twin Towers

Four Periods of Publicity,  by Gutzon Borglum and his wife, Estelle Kohn, 1906

• Garrison Building, 20 Vesey St., 9th floor cornice.

• Index terms: speaking man, monk with manuscript, newspaper, media, editor, early printing press, printers' devices, Aldus Manutius

• Park Row Building, 15 Park Row (between Ann and Beeckman Streets).
• Index terms: Greek mythology, Greek architecture

Justice, sculptor unknown, 1887

• Cupola of City Hall.

• Index terms: law, legal, scales, balance, Neoclassical

Nathan Hale, by Frederick MacMonnies, pedestal by Stanford White, 1890

• Facing City Hall.

• Essay 8 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Listed in walking tour flyer, Figures from American History to 1800. Essay on Hale.

• Notecard with detail of Hale

• Index: Revolutionary War, American Revolution, Connecticut, spy, hanging

Horace Greeley, by John Quincy Adams Ward, pedestal by Richard Morris Hunt, 1890

• City Hall Park, northeast of City Hall.

• Essay 7 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.

• Index terms: New York Tribune, journalist, editor, newspaper, media, Civil War

Benjamin Franklin, by Ernst Plassmann, ca. 1872

• East side of Park Row at Nassau St., in front of Pace University, just south of the Brooklyn Bridge entrance ramp.

• Listed in walking tour flyer, Figures from American History to 1800.

• Index terms: American Revolution, Revolutionary War, printer, publisher, newspaper, editor, media, Pennsylvania Gazette

Surrogate's Court, sculptures by Philip Martiny and Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, 1903 -1908

• Originally the Hall of Records, 31 Chambers St. at Centre.

• See also the walking tour Figures from American History to 1800.

• Index terms: New York in Its Infancy, New York in Revolutionary Times, American Revolution, French Revolution, allegory, allegorical, British soldier, Native American, Pilgrim, Puritan. on the 5th-floor cornice, mayors and other New York City officials by Martiny: David Pietersen De Vries, Caleb Heathcote, De Witt Clinton, Abram Stevens Hewitt, Philip Hone, Peter Stuyvesant, Cadwallader David Colden, James Duane. Centre Street facade cornice, by Martiny: allegorical figures of Chemistry, Medicine, Industry, Commerce, Navigation, Industrial Art, Music, Architecture. Reade Street cornice, by Martiny: allegorical figures of Justice, Electricity, Printing, Force, Tradition, Iron Age, Painting, Sculpture. Chambers Street roof, by Bush-Brown: allegorical figures of Childhood (flanking attic window), the seasons (Spring, Summer, Winter, Autumn, as caryatids), Philosophy, Poetry, Maternity & Heritage. Reade Street facade by Bush-Brown, around central attic window: Instruction, Study, Law, History. Elk Street facade, by Bush-Brown (around central window on attic roof): Industry, Commerce

• Reliefs on the Civil and Municipal Court Building, 111 Centre St. [location not confirmed]
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• Index terms: snake, mother and child, family

• 60 Centre St. at Foley Square (Thomas Paine Square), between Pearl and Worth Sts.
• Law, Truth, Equity, Justice, Courage, Wisdom, evil, good, Guardians of the Records, allegory, allegorical

• Flanking entrance to New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre St.
• Fasces, allegory, allegorical

• Gilt figure atop the Municipal Building, Centre and Chambers Sts.
• allegory, allegorical, laurel branch, crown symbolizing unified boroughs of New York City

• Bowery and Division Sts.
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• China, Chinese, philosopher

• East Broadway at Chatham Square
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• Index terms: drug trade, China, opium

• Catherine & Cherry Sts.

• The flagpole is also listed in the walking tour of animal sculptures.

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• Index terms: Sidewalks of New York, bear, deer, owl, beaver

Buffalo Hunt, by Charles Cary Rumsey, 1916; Spirit of Commerce and Spirit of Industry, by Carl A. Heber, ca. 1914.

• On the arch of the Manhattan Bridge, west end of Canal St.

• Listed in the walking tour of animal sculptures.

• Index terms: Hermes or Mercury, Greek mythology, trophy, fasces, lion, eagle, Native Americans

• 130 Bowery, north of Grand St.
• Index terms: lions, hammer, industry?

• Duarte Plaza, Avenue of the Americas at Canal St.
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• Index terms: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo

• Central mall of the La Guardia Houses, near Madison St. (between Clinton and Jefferson Sts.).
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• Index terms: New York City mayor, Robert Moses

• On the Puck Building, 295 Lafayette St. at Houston; one Puck appears on the west facade, a slightly different one on the northeast corner.
• Index terms: Puck, Oh What Fool's These Mortals Be (inscription on Puck's book)

• Roof of the Red Square apartment complex, 250 East Houston St. between Avenues A and B
• Index terms: Russian, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Communism, Socialism

• Christopher St. Park, adjoining Sheridan Square, just east of Seventh Ave. and north of West 4th St.
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• Index terms: Civil War, sword, Cedar Creek

• Christopher St. Park, at Seventh Ave. and West 4th St.
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• Index terms: gay and lesbian

Fiorello La Guardia, by Neil Estern, 1994

• LaGuardia Place near Bleecker.

• Essay 9 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.

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• Index terms: New York City mayor, Robert Moses

• Avenue of the Americas at Dominick St., near Spring
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• Index terms: Latin America, South America, Uruguay, Argentina

• St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, Second Ave. at East 10th St. [not confirmed]
• Index terms: allegory, allegorical, Native Americans

• St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, Second Ave. at East 10th St. [not confirmed]
• Index terms: allegory, allegorical

• St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, Second Ave. at East 10th St.
• Index terms: New Amsterdam, New Netherlands, Dutch

• Abingdon Square Park, intersection of Bleecker West 12th St., Eighth Ave. and Hudson St.
• Index terms: World War I, doughboy, infantry, flag, war memorial

• Tompkins Square, northeast corner of 8th St. and Avenue A.
• Index terms: "Postman's Friend," United States Postal Service

• Tompkins Square Park at Ave. A, south of the 9th St. transverse.
• Mentioned in the salute to Puck, with a photo
• Index terms: water carrier, Greek mythology, allegorical figure, Danish, temperance movement

• Tompkins Square Park, north of 9th St. Traverse, behind the brick restroom pavilion
• Index terms: steamboat, shipwreck, immigrants

• Washington Square, west of the central fountain.
• Essay 11 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Also discussed in detail in Forgotten Delights: The Producers.
• Notecard with bust of Holley
• Index terms: steel manufacturing, Bessemer process, railroads, technology, industry

• North end of Washington Square at Fifth Ave.
• Essay 12 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Listed in walking tour flyer, Figures from American History to 1800.
• Index terms: American Revolution, Revolutionary War, allegory, allegorical, Fame, Valor, Courage, Wisdom, Athena, Justice, coats of arms of New York state, New York City, United States and George Washington, United States president

• Washington Square, east of the central fountain
• Mentioned in Salutes to Mazzini and Bolivar.
• Index terms: Italian independence, immigration, sword, war memorial

• Cooper Square south of the Cooper Union, where the Bowery splits into Third and Fourth Avenues.
• Essay 10 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Also discussed in detail in Forgotten Delights: The Producers.
• Index terms: Baltimore & Ohio railroad, steelmanufacturing, Tom Thumb, industry

• South side of Union Square (14th St. at Broadway), above the Virgin Megastore.
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• Index terms: clock, hand of Henry Kirke Brown's George Washington at Union Square

George Washington, by Henry Kirke Brown, pedestal by Richard Upjohn, 1856

• South end of Union Square, facing 14th St., between University Place and Broadway

• Essay 13 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Brief mention with Independence Flagpole. Listed in walking tour flyer, Figures from American History to 1800. "Getting More Enjoyment from Art You Love," The Objective Standard (Summer 2006).

• Index terms: American Revolution, Revolutionary War, Evacuation Day, British occupation of New York, equestrian, horse, uniform, United States president

Mohandas Gandhi, by Kantilal B. Patel, 1986

• Southwest corner of Union Square, near the corner of 14th Street and Union Square West.

• Brief mention with Independence Flagpole.

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• Index terms: nonviolent protest, walking stick, dhoti, politician, India

Union Square Drinking Fountain, also known as Charity, or the James Fountain, by Karl Adolph Donndorf, 1881

• West side of Union Square between 15th and 16th Sts.

• Brief mention with Independence Flagpole.

• Index terms: temperance movement, mother and children, Daniel Willis James. Pedestal: birds, fruit, lizards, lions' heads

Independence Flagpole (Charles F. Murphy Memorial Flagpole), by Anthony de Francisci, 1926

• Center of Union Square.

• Cross-referenced in Salute for July.

• Index terms: allegorical, allegory, Tammany Society, Declaration of Independence, democracy, tyranny, coats of arms of 13 original colonies of United States

Marquis de Lafayette, by Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, 1873

• Union Square at East 16th Street.

• Essay 14 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Also brief mention with Independence Flagpole and Thomas Jefferson. Listed in walking tour flyer, Figures from American History to 1800.

• Index terms: France, French, American Revolution, Revolutionary War, Franco-Prussian War

Abraham Lincoln, by Henry Kirke Brown, 1870

• North end of Union Square, on a line with 16th St.

• Essay 15 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Brief mention with Independence Flagpole.

• Index terms: Civil War, United States president, Neoclassical

• Union Square, southeast triangle [location unconfirmed]
• Index terms:

Washington Irving, by Friedrich Beer, 1885

• In front of Washington Irving High School, 40 Irving Place at East 17th Street.

•  Brief mention with Independence Flagpole and George Washington on Broad St.

• Index terms: American literature, writer, Knickerbocker's History of New York, Rip Van Winkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Peter Stuyvesant, by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1936

• Stuyvesant Square, between 15th and 17th Sts., west of Second Avenue.

• Essay 16 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Brief mention with Independence Flagpole and in the "Second Stories on 17th St." blog entry. Listed in walking tour flyer, Figures from American History to 1800.

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• Index terms: Dutch, New Amsterdam, New Netherlands

Antonin Dvorak, by Ivan Mestrovic, 1963

• Northeast corner of Stuyvesant Square Park, near 17^th St. and Perlman Place (between 1st and 2nd Aves.).

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• Index terms: composer, musician, Czechoslovakian

Edwin Booth as Hamlet, by Edmond T. Quinn, 1917

• Gramercy Park, accessible only to residents of surrounding buildings; best seen from outside the fence at 20th St. and Irving Place

• Essay 17 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.

• Index terms: Shakespeare, actor, Players Club, literature, drama

Fantasy Fountain, by Greg Wyatt, 1983

• Gramercy Park, accessible only to residents of surrounding buildings; best seen from outside the fence at the southeast corner, between 20th and 21st Sts.

• Listed in the walking tour of animal sculptures.

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• Index terms: sun, moon, giraffe

William Seward, by Randolph Rogers, 1876

• Madison Square Park, Fifth Ave. and 23rd St.

• Index terms: New York governor, United States senator, Secretary of State, Alaska, Seward's Folly

Roscoe Conkling, by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1893

• Madison Square Park, near 23rd St. between Fifth and Madison Aves.

• Essay 18 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Mentioned in salute to Chester A. Arthur.

• Index terms: United States senator, Blizzard of 1888, Ulysses S. Grant, Republican

General William Jenkins Worth Monument, by James Goodwin Batterson, 1857

• North end of the triangle formed by Fifth Ave., Broadway and 24th St.

• See the Amazon Short "General William Jenkins Worth Monument"

• Index terms: Mexican-American War, war memorial, equestrian, horse, cast-iron fence with swords, coats of arms, trophy of armor, obelisk

Farragut Monument (Admiral David Glasgow Farragut), by Augustus Saint Gaudens, pedestal by Stanford White, 1880

• Madison Square Park, between Fifth and Madison Aves., near 26th St.

• Essay 19 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.

• Notecard with detail of Farragut

• Index terms: Civil War, naval, allegory, allegorical figures, Loyalty, Courage, fish, crab, Battle of New Orleans, Battle of Mobile Bay, "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"

Chester A. Arthur, by George Edwin Bissell, 1898

• Madison Square Park, Fifth Ave. near 26th St.

• Also mentioned in Salute to Seward.

• Index terms: United States president, lawyer, Republican, presidential seal

• Corner Madison Ave. and 25th St., with sculpture on south and west facades.
• Index terms: portico on 25th St by Frederick Wellington Ruckstull, includes Wisdom and Force. 25th St windows within portico by Maximilian M. Schwartzott: Morning, Night, Noon & Evening. 25th St pediment, by Charles Henry Niehaus, includes the Triumph of Law with Law surrounded by reclining Roman soldiers, and (at the corners) Father Time and an unidentified youth. 25th St. roof balustrade: series of single standing statues associated with law-giving: Zoroaster (Persian) by Edward Clark Potter; Alfred the Great (Anglo-Saxon) by Jonathan Scott Hartley; Lycurgus (Spartan) by George Edwin Bissell; Solon (Athenian) by Herbert Adams; Justice flanked by Power and Study, by Daniel Chester French; St Louis (French), by John Talbott Donoghue; Manu (Indian) by Augustus Lukeman; Justinian (Roman) by Henry Kirke Bush-Brown. Madison Ave., above cornice of portico: 4 caryatids representing 4 seasons, & implying law's universality, by Thomas Shields Clarke (Winter, Autumn, Summer, Spring. Madison Avenue roof balustrade: Confucius (Chinese), by Philip Martiny; Peace (with a dove), flanked by Strength and Abundance; Moses (Hebrew), by William Couper

• Hunter College Nursing School Dormitory, East 26th St. at 1st Ave. [location not confirmed]
• Index terms: medicine

Chelsea Park Memorial, by Philip Martiny, 1920

• Chelsea Park, at 28th St. and Ninth Ave.

• Index terms: World War I, doughboy, infantry, rifle

Samuel Rea, by Adolph Weinman, 1930 (?)

• Originally inside the first Pennsylvania Station; now at entrance to 2 Penn Plaza, off Seventh Ave. at 32nd Street.

• Essay 20 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Also discussed in detail in Forgotten Delights: The Producers.

• Labor Day greeting

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• Index terms: railroad, Pennsylvania Station, businessman, architectural model, industry

Eagles from the original Pennsylvania Station, by Adolph Weinman, ca. 1910

• Seventh Ave. at 32nd St. Another Penn Station eagle has strayed to the courtyard behind the Starbucks at Astor Place and Third Ave.

• Listed in the walking tour of animal sculptures.

• Index terms: bird, railroad

• Near 32nd St., between Broadway and Sixth Ave.
• Compared with the John Quincy Ward statue of Greeley in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan, Essay 7.

• Index terms: New York Tribune, journalist, editor, newspaper, media, Civil War

• South side of 34th St. between Lexington and Third Avenue, in front of the Dumont Plaza Hotel
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• Index terms: painter, artist, palette

Bell Ringers Monument (James Gordon Bennett Memorial), by Antonin Jean Paul Carles, 1895

• Herald Square, intersection of Sixth Ave. and Broadway between 34th and 35th Sts., just east of Macy's Herald Square.

• Essay 21 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.

• New Year's greeting

• Index terms: New York Herald, Athena or Minerva, Stuff and Guff, Gog and Magog, Greek mythology

Lionesses, by Edward Clark Potter (d. 1923)

• South side of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 36th St. between Madison and Park.

• Listed in the walking tour of animal sculptures.

• Index terms:

Garment Worker, by Judith Weller, 1984

• Plaza in front of 555 Seventh Ave., between 39^th and 40^th Streets.

• Brief mention with William Cullen Bryant. Discussed in detail in Forgotten Delights: The Producers.

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• Index terms: Garment District, Jewish immigrants, immigration, sewing machine

Golda Meir, by Beatrice Goldfine, 1980

• Golda Meir Square near Broadway and 39^th St.

• Brief mention with William Cullen Bryant.

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• Index terms: Israeli prime minister, Palestine

Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden, by Robert Du Grenier, 2000

• Outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal, 8th Ave. and 40th St.

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• Index terms: Honeymooners, television, TV Land, blue collar worker, transportation

• South wing waiting room of the Port Authority Bus Terminal, whose main entrance is at 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue.
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• Index terms: transportation

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, by Karl Fischer, ca. 1832; this copy 1934

• Bryant Park just north of 40^th St.

• Brief mention with William Cullen Bryant.

• Index terms: German literature, author, poetry

William Earl Dodge, by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1885

• Bryant Park just south of 42^nd St. and east of Sixth Ave.

• Essay 24 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Brief mention with William Cullen Bryant. Discussed in detail in Forgotten Delights: The Producers.

• Index terms: Phelps Dodge, businessman, mining, "Christian merchant", industry

William Cullen Bryant by Herbert Adams, architect Thomas Hastings, 1911

• Bryant Park, directly behind (west of) the New York Public Library, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and 42^nd and 41^st Streets.

• Essay 22 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.

• Index terms: American literature, author, poetry, New York Evening Post, editor, media, newspaper

Gertrude Stein, by Jo Davidson, 1992 (from original of 1923)

• Bryant Park, south of the Bryant monument.

• Essay 23 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Brief mention with William Cullen Bryant.

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• Index terms: American literature, author,

Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva, by Jose Otavia Correia Lima, 1954

• Bryant Park facing Sixth Ave., between 41^st and 42^nd Streets.

• Brief mention with William Cullen Bryant.

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• Index terms: Brazil, politician, Latin America, South America

• Bryant Park, Avenue of the Americas between 41st and 42nd Sts.
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• Index terms: Mexico

Wendell L. Willkie, by Paul Fjelde (?), 1957

• Relief plaque on the 40^th St. (south) wall of the New York Public Library grounds, near Fifth Ave.

• Brief mention with William Cullen Bryant.

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• Index terms: politician, United States presidential candidate

Lions, by Edward Clark Potter, 1911

• New York Public Library, facing Fifth Ave. between 41st and 42nd Sts.

• Listed in the walking tour of animal sculptures.

• Index terms: Patience, Fortitude

• Attic storey of the New York Public Library at Fifth Ave. and 42nd St.
• Index terms: allegory, allegorical

• Flanking the main entrance of the New York Public Library at Fifth Ave. and 42nd St.
• Discussed in Dianne Durante's lecture "Turn-of-the-Century Artist-Entrepreneurs: Saint Gaudens, MacMonnies, and Parrish,"  available from the Ayn Rand Bookstore [LINK]
• Index terms: allegory, allegorical, sphinx, Pegasus, Greek mythology

• Pediments of the New York Public Library at Fifth Ave. and 42nd St.
• Index terms: allegory, allegorical, armor

• Flanking the main entrance of the New York Public Library at Fifth Ave. and 42nd St.

Cornelius Vanderbilt, by Ernst Plassmann, 1869

• South facade of Grand Central Terminal, at the level of the Park Avenue viaduct.

• Essay 25 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Also discussed in detail in Forgotten Delights: The Producers.

• Index terms: steamboats, railroads, businessman, Grand Central Depot, New York Central Railroad, industry, transportation

Glory of Commerce (also known as Hermes or Mercury), by Jules-Felix Coutan, 1914

• Grand Central Terminal, south facade.

• Essay 26 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.

• Index terms: allegory, allegorical, Hercules or Heracles, Athena or Minerva, anchor, cogwheel, anvil, beehive, technology, scroll, quill pen, globe, intellectual, eagle, New York Central Railroad, industry, transportation

Mary Pickford, Ethel Barrymore, Marilyn Miller, Rosa Ponselle, by Alexander Stirling Calder, ca. 1927-1929

• The Miller Building, 1552 Broadway (at 46th St.),

• Brief mention of the Miller Building with News.

• Index terms: actors, actresses, theater, drama, musical comedy, film, opera

Father Francis P. Duffy. by Charles Keck, 1937

• Broadway and Seventh Ave. between 46th and 47th Sts.

• Essay 27 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.

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• Index terms: World War I, Fighting Sixty-Ninth, chaplain, priest

• Duffy Square, Broadway and Seventh Ave. at 46th St. [in storage during renovation of the area, June 2007?]
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• Index terms: Broadway, musicals, playwright, actor, songwriter, businessman

• United Nations North Garden; enter at First Ave. and 46th St.
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• Index terms: horse, equestrian, Yugoslavian artist

• United Nations, north end of the Rose Garden, on the East River Terrace.
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• Index terms: Russian or Soviet artist, Bible, Book of Isaiah, worker

• United Nations North Garden; enter at First Ave. and 46th St.
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• Index terms: German artist

• United Nations North Garden; enter at First Ave. and 46th St.
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• Index terms: monk, Spain, Spanish, theologian, international law, Mexican artist

Taxi!, by J. Seward Johnson, 1983

• Northwest corner of 47^th St. and Park Ave.

• Brief mention with News. Discussed in detail in Forgotten Delights: The Producers.

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• Index terms: businessman, overcoat, briefcase

• 240 East 47th St., near Second Ave. [location not confirmed]

• Waldorf-Astoria, 301 Park Ave. (between 49th and 50th Sts.), canopy over the Park Avenue entrance
• See the 12/21/07 entry on the Forgotten Delights blog.
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Atlas, by Lee Lawrie, 1937

• Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets.

• Essay 29 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.

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• Index terms: Greek mythology, armillary sphere, Benito Mussolini

News, by Isamu Noguchi, 1940

• Associated Press Building, 50 Rockefeller Plaza, between 50th and 51st Streets.

• Essay 30 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.

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• Index terms: journalism, media, newspapers

Prometheus, by Paul Manship, 1934

• Rockefeller Center Skating Rink.

• Essay 28 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Brief mention with News. Separate salute to the man and woman flanking the stairs to the skating rink.

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• Index terms: Greek mythology, fire

Wisdom, flanked by Light and Sound, by Lee Lawrie, 1933

• 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Brief mention with News.

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• Index terms: allegorical, television, radio

Italian Immigrants, by Giacomo Manzu, ca. 1965

• On the wall on the north side of 50^th St. in Rockefeller Center.

• Brief mention with News.

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• Index terms: Italy, mother and child

• Over the main entrance of International Building North at Rockefeller Center, 636 Fifth Ave., between 50th and 51st Sts.
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• Index terms: chariot, glass mural

• Over the entrance to La Maison Francaise, 610 Fifth Ave., between 49th and 50th Sts.
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• Index terms: allegory, allegorical, Poetry, Beauty, Elegance, New York, Paris, Notre Dame, ship

Industries of the British Commonwealth, by Carl Paul Jennewein, 1933

• Gilt reliefs on the doors of the British Empire Building at 620 Fifth Ave.

• Brief mention with News.

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• Index terms: Fisherman, sailor, coal miner; woman carrying bag of salt, woman next to tobacco plant, man holding stalks of sugarcane, India, agriculture; shepherd, wool, Australia; reaper, wheat, Canada; cotton plants, Africa

• Rockefeller Center in the Channel Gardens, between La Maison Francaise and the British Empire Building (48th-49th Sts.), just west of Saks Fifth Avenue
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• Index terms: marine, Triton, Nereids, Greek mythology, dolphin, allegory, allegorical, Leadership, Will, Thought, Imagination, Energy, Alertness

Parthenon pedimental sculptures and metopes, full-scale copies of originals of 5th c. B.C.

• Olympic Towers Atrium, on the north side of 50th St. (between Fifth & Madison Aves., opposite St. Patrick’s Cathedral)

• Brief mention with News.

• Index terms: horses, equestrian

Flanders Field Memorial, by Burt W. Johnson, 1929

• DeWitt Clinton Park, Eleventh Ave. at 52nd St.

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• Index terms: World War I, John McRae, poppies, rifle, doughboy, infantry

• Fifth-Avenue facade of Tiffany's, at 57th St.
• Index terms: Greek mythology

• Fuller Building, 41 East 57th St. (near Madison Ave.) [location not confirmed]
• Index terms: blue-collar workers, industry, architecture

Wild Boar, copy (before 1970) of a 1634 bronze by Pietro Tacca, which was inspired by an ancient work now in the Uffizi Gallery

• 57th St. and Sutton Place. [location not confirmed]

• Listed in the walking tour of animal sculptures.

• Index terms: pig

• 222 West 59th St., east of Columbus Circle (recently cleaned and quite spiffy, mid-2007)
• Index terms: British, art, painting, Neoclassical

Columbus Monument, by Gaetano Russo, 1892

• Columbus Circle, intersection of Eighth Avenue, Central Park South and 59th Street.

• Essay 35 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Also discussed in detail in Forgotten Delights: The Producers. Listed in walking tour flyer, Figures from American History to 1800.

• Columbus Day greeting

• Index terms: explorer of Americas, allegory, allegorical, eagle, Genius of Discovery, Genius of Columbus, Genius of Geography, coats of arms of Genoa and United States, rostra, Native Americans, Caribbean, tiller

Seals of the United States, New York State, New York City and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority by Paul Manship, 1956

• Originally on the Coliseum at Columbus Circle, now on the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel Building on Battery Place, near Bowling Green.

• See "The Case of the Ponderously Peripatetic Sculptures"
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• Index terms: coats of arms, New York State, New York City, Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, ships, Phyrgian cap, Liberty, Justice with balance, Triborough Bridge, windmill, beaver, Dutch, Native American

• Fordham University / Lincoln Center, Columbus Ave. near 60th St. [location not confirmed]
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• Index terms: mother and child

• Fordham University / Lincoln Center, West 62nd St. [location not confirmed]
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• Index terms: education, Matthew 4:18-20

Dante Alighieri, by Ettore Ximenes, 1912-1921

• Dante Square, Broadway at West 64th St., near Lincoln Center.

• Index terms: Italy, Italian, medieval, Renaissance, Divine Comedy, literature, poetry

Richard Tucker, by Milton Hebald, 1979

• Richard Tucker Park, Broadway at 66th St. and Columbus Ave., across from Lincoln Center.

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• Index terms: opera singer, tenor, Metropolitan Opera, music

Eleanor Roosevelt, by Penelope Jencks, 1996

• Riverside Park at West 72nd St.

• Essay 40 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.

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• Index terms: politician, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States

Giuseppe Verdi, by Pasquale Civiletti, 1906

• West 73rd St. and Broadway

• Essay 41 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.

• Index terms: opera, Leonora, Forza del Destino, Aida, Otello, Falstaff, Italy, Italian immigrants

Theodore Roosevelt, by James Earle Fraser, 1940

• Central Park West at 80th St. (in front of the American Museum of Natural History).

• Essay 42 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.

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• Index terms: Native American, African, equestrian, horse, war bonnet. On the reliefs to either side, moose, buffalo, deer, bears, lion, zebra. On the cornice, Daniel Boone, John James Audubon, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark

Joan of Arc, by Anna Hyatt Huntington, 1915

• Riverside Drive and West 93rd St. 

• Essay 44 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Also a brief mention with the Firemen's Memorial.

• Index terms: France, French, equestrian, horse, English, Hundred Years' War, sword, medieval armor

Firemen's Memorial, by Attilio Piccirilli, architect H. van Burn Magonigle, 1913

• Riverside Drive and West 100th St.

• Essay 45 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.

• Index terms: firefighting, firefighter, widow, horses, mother and child, modern pieta, fire engine, Sacrifice, Duty, fire hydrant, allegory, allegorical

Franz Sigel, by Karl Bitter, 1907

• Riverside Drive and W. 106th St.

• Brief mention with the Firemen's Memorial.

• Index terms: war memorial, Civil war, German immigrants, immigration, Battle of Pea Ridge, journalist, equestrian, horse

Straus Memorial, by Augustus Lukeman, architect Evarts Tracy, 1915

• West 106th St. between Broadway and West End Ave. 

• Essay 46 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Also brief mention with the Firemen's Memorial.

• Notecard with detail of Straus Memorial

• Index terms: Titanic, Isidor Straus, Ida Straus, allegorical, allegory, Memory, Macy's

Maine Monument, by Attilio Piccirilli, architect H. van Buren Magonigle, 1913

• Central Park at Columbus Circle (West 59^th St. and Central Park South).

• Essay 34 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.

• Index terms: Spanish-American War, allegory, allegorical, Colombia Triumphant, seahorses, chariot, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Peace, Courage, Peace, Victory, Justice, History, War, William Randolph Hearst, New York Journal, Joseph Pulitzer, New York World

Simon Bolivar, by Sally James Farnham, 1921

• Central Park South at Sixth Avenue.

• Essay 32 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. For the first Bolivar statue in Manhattan, click here.

• Index terms: Latin America, South America, equestrian, horse, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia

Jose Marti, by Anna Hyatt Huntington, 1959 (dedicated 1965)

• Central Park South at Sixth Ave. (Avenue of the Americas)

• Essay 33 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Brief mentions with Boabdil and Bolivar.

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• Index terms: Cuba, equestrian, horse, Latin America, Caribbean, Central America

Jose de San Martin, by Louis Joseph Daumas, 1951

• Central Park South at Sixth Ave. (Avenue of the Americas).

• Brief mention with Bolivar.

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• Index terms: Argentina, equestrian, horse, Chile, Peru, South America, Latin America

Thomas Moore, by Dennis B. Sheahan, 1879

• Central Park, path leading to the Pond (north of the 60th St. entrance on the east side of the Park).

• Index terms: Irish, Ireland, poetry

• Central Park Zoo, Intelligence Garden, Fifth Ave. at 64th St. To see this sculpture, you must pay to enter the Zoo. [location not confirmed]

• Listed in the walking tour of animal sculptures.

• Index terms:

• Central Park Zoo, Fifth Ave. at 64th St., reliefs on the Tropical and Polar Zone Buildings, on the Gift Shop and on the Zoo School
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• Index terms: animals

Delacorte Clock, by Andrea Spadini, 1965

• Central Park Children's Zoo, near Fifth Ave. at 64th St.

• Listed in the walking tour of animal sculptures.

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• Index terms: bear shaking tambourine, kangaroo & offspring playing horn, elephant playing accordion or concertina, goat playing Pan pipes, hippopotamus playing violin or fiddle, penguin with drums, music

Honey Bear; Dancing Goat, by Frederick George Richard Roth, ca. 1935

• Central Park Zoo at opposite ends of the Penguin Building.

• Also listed in the walking tour of animal sculptures.

• Index terms: ducks, frogs

Lehman Gate, by Paul Manship, 1960-1961

• Entrance to Central Park Children's Zoo, near Fifth Ave. and  66th St.

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• Index terms: boy, goat, bird, pan pipes

Balto, by Frederick George Richard Roth, 1925

• Central Park near the pedestrian tunnel beneath the East Drive at about 66th St.

• Also listed in the walking tour of animal sculptures.

• Index terms: sled dog, Alaska, dog team, Iditarod, blizzard, diphtheria, medicine

Christopher Columbus, by Jeronimo Sunol, 1894

• Central Park, south end of the Mall, near the Literary Walk.

• Essay 36 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Also discussed in detail in Forg