Outdoor sculpture in New York City

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The City of New York's public sculptures would make a long list. The Statue of Liberty stands on an island in the harbor and belongs not to New York but to the world. While still part of New York, it surrounded by waters that are part of New Jersey and the city of Jersey City. Still, it is often symbolic of everything that New York City represents.

New Yorkers pulled down the statue of George III in Bowling Green and melted him and the railings that protected him for bullets during the American Revolution. Since then, public sculpture, and some private sculpture too, has been part of the cityscape.

Contents 1 In Manhattan 1.1 In Central Park 2 In the Bronx 3 In Brooklyn 4 In Queens 5 In Staten Island 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] In Manhattan

• The statues of Giovanni da Verrazzano, John Ambrose and John Ericsson in Battery Park.
• The famous Charging Bull of Bowling Green Plaza.
• John Watts outside Trinity Church (New York) Cemetery.
• Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton mounted on her shrine at 7 State Street.
• George Washington outside Federal Hall.
• Benjamin Franklin outside Pace University.
• Nathan Hale outside City Hall.
• Horace Greeley outside City Hall Park.
• Vladimir Lenin located at Houston Street between Avenues A and B
• Patrick Cardinal Hayes located at St. Andrew's Church near Duane Street.
• Confucius located in the Confucius Plaza at Bowery and Division Streets.
• Lin Xe Zu located in the Lin Xe Zu Square at East Broadway and Chatham Square.

• Governor Al Smith located in the Al Smith playground at Monroe and Catherine Streets.
• Mayor Fiorello La Guardia located at Madison and Jefferson Streets.
• Mayor Fiorello La Guardia located at LaGuardia Place north of Bleeker Street.
• Mahatma Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln in Union Square
• Guiseppe Garibaldi, Alexander Holley and George Washington in Washington Square Park.
• Governor Daniel Tompkins and Governor Peter Stuyvesantlocated in St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery at 2nd Avenue and 10th Street.
• Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra located off 5th Avenue north of Washington Square Park.
• General Phillip Sheridan located in Sheridan Square 7th Avenue South, near 4th and Chrstopher Streets.
• Peter Cooper located in Peter Cooper Square on East 7th Street.
• Jackie Gleason outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal
• The Alamo, the balanced cube in Astor Place
• William Cullen Bryant in Bryant Park
• The Joan of Arc equestrian statue in Riverside Park
• Abundance, crowning the Pulitzer fountain in front of the Plaza Hotel
• Isamu Noguchi's Cube, in front of the Marine Midland Building
• The Peace Fountain on the grounds of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
• Eleanor Roosevelt at the corner of West 72nd Street and Riverside Drive in Riverside Park

[edit] In Central Park

North of Conservatory Water, the sailboat pond, there is a larger than life bronze statue of Alice, sitting on a huge mushroom, playing with her cat, while the Mad Hatter and the March Hare look on. Not too far away, just West of the model boat house, there is a statue of Hans Christian Andersen, holding an open book, with the diminutive hero of The Ugly Duckling in front of him. There are about a dozen other statues in the park and in the Mall.

• General Sherman, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, at the southeast corner of Central Park
• Simón Bolívar at the head of Avenue of the Americas
• José Martí flanking Bolivar
• The Monument to the Maine at Columbus Circle
• King [Jogaila|[Władysłav Jagiełło]] next to Turtle Pond
• Balto Northwest of the Children's Zoo

[edit] In the Bronx

• The Bronx Zoo has a statue of a Rhinoceros.

[edit] In Brooklyn

[edit] In Queens

• Civic Virtue the nude Hercules who made a scandal in City Hall Park and was banished to Queens

• Socrates Sculpture Park on Vernon Blvd. and Broadway in Long Island City

[edit] In Staten Island

[edit] See also

Public Art

[edit] External links

• "Who are those guys(and gals)?" for Lower Manhattan at Forgotten NY
• "Who are those guys(and gals)?" for Chinatown, Soho and the Village at Forgotten NY
• "Who are those guys(and gals)?" for Madison and Union Square at Forgotten NY
• "Who are those guys(and gals)?" for Midtown at Forgotten NY
• "Who are those guys(and gals)?" for Central Park at Forgotten NY
• Forgotten Delights index of outdoor representational sculptures in New York City, many with photos and comments
• "The Statue of Civic Virtue" from A Picture History of Kew Gardens, NY