Greeley Square Park
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Horace Greeley
- Location: 32nd Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue
- Sculptor: Alexander Doyle
- Description: Seated figure on integral plinth (over life-size),on pedestal
- Materials: Bronze, Quincy granite (polished)
- Cast: 1892
- Dedicated: May 30, 1894
- Foundry: Henry Bonnard Bronze Co
- Donor: New York Typographical Union No. 6
- Inscription: THIS STATUE OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT / NEW YORK TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION
NO. 6 / WAS PRESENTED TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK BY / HORACE GREELY
POST NO. 577 G.A.R. / NEW YORK TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION NO.6 AND/
BROOKLYN TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION NO. 98 / GIVEN TO THE CITY OF NEW
YORK IN 1890
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