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PARK FACT:

Since 1908, Central Park has appeared in over 240 feature films, making it the most filmed public park in the world!

Central Park

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5 Av To Central Park W, 59 St To 110 St

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Acres: 840.01

Monuments

Dancing Goat

Dancing Goat

Goat standing on hind legs on integral plinth on pedestal in center of fountain basin

Daniel Draper

Daniel Draper

Tablet on front wall of tower

Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Standing figure with intergral plinth, on pedestal

Delacorte Clock

Delacorte Clock

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

Dr. James Marion Sims

Dr. James Marion Sims

Standing figure with integral plinth on pedestal with supporting piers right and left, each bearing an inscribed roundel on its face

Drinking Fountain

Drinking Fountain

Drinking fountain

Duke Ellington Memorial

Duke Ellington Memorial

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

Eagles

Eagles

8 sculptured eagles

Eagles and Prey

Eagles and Prey

Group of two birds attacking a goat, on a pedestal

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