PARK FACT:
One of the elms in Tompkins Square Park is an important monument for members of the Hare Krishna movement.
Tompkins Square Park
Slocum Disaster Memorial 
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- Sculptor: Bruno Louis Zimm
- Description: Stele with curved top; on front a bas relief over a shell basin with lion-head spouting fountain
- Materials: Tennessee pink marble
- Cast: ca. 1906
- Dedicated: 1906
- Donor: Sympathetic Society of German Ladies
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