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Sculptor Karl Illava (1896–1954) created this dynamic bronze figural group depicting seven larger-than-life-sized World ...

This garden is named for nearby 132nd Street in Harlem. Colonized by Dutch farmers in the late 1600s, this area was originall...

The 24 Sycamores Playground is located at York Avenue, between East 60th and 61st Streets. The site consists of...

This 5,100-pound abstract piece by sculptor Terry Fugate-Wilcox (born 1944) is constructed out of bolted plates of magnesium a...

This monument honors the legendary 369th Infantry Regiment, known as the Harlem Hellfighters. The black granite obelisk ...

The name of ABC Playground reflects both its location at the northern edge of Alphabet City and its proximity to Public School...

Over a period of forty years, Abe Lebewohl (1931-1996) transformed his Second Avenue Deli into a New York institution, drawing...

This sculpture honors those servicemen from the neighborhood of Greenwich Village who gave their lives while serving in combat...

Abingdon Square Park shares its lineage with some of Greenwich Village’s earliest European landowners and social figures. ...

This impressive bronze portrait statue, created by American sculptor George Edwin Bissell (1839-1920), depicts Mayor Abraham D...

One of three sculptural renditions of Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) in New York City’s parks, this larger-than-life bronze by He...

The Abyssinian Baptist Church was the first African American Baptist congregation in the state of New York and the fourth in t...

Admiral David Dixon Porter (1813¡V1891), for whom both the park and the adjacent Public School 94 are named, was born in Chest...

Adventure Playground emerged from movements in 1960s Europe that worked to reclaim derelict urban spaces, many caused by the d...

These limestone reliefs by Frederick G. R. Roth (1872-1944) were created as decorative friezes for the Antelope House in the 1...

This small Lower East Side park is one of New York City’s oldest. On August 2, 1824, the Common Council agreed to ta...

Located in the small traffic triangle to the south of the historic Astor Place subway entrance and directly northwest of Coope...

This bronze, life-sized sculpture is a self-portrait of the esteemed Danish sculptor Albert Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), and was d...

In Honor of Alexander Lyman Holley Foremost Among Those Whose Genius and Energy Established in America and Improved Thr...

This larger-than-life-size statue depicts Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804), the eminent statesmen for the fledgling nation of th...