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The gilded bronze statue of the Sherman Monument (dedicated in 1903), sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens on a pedestal designed by Charles Follen McKim. [1]New York City's 843-acre (3.41 km 2) Central Park is the home of many works of public art in various media, such as bronze, stone, and tile.
Central Park is the sixth-largest park in New York City, behind Pelham Bay Park, the Staten Island Greenbelt, Freshkills Park, Van Cortlandt Park, and Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, [14] with an area of 843 acres (341 ha; 1.317 sq mi; 3.41 km 2). [15] [16] Central Park constitutes its own United States census tract, numbered 143.
The Architecture of New York City: Histories and Views of Important Structures, Sites, and Symbols. J. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-01439-3. OCLC 45730295. Rosenzweig, Roy & Blackmar, Elizabeth (1992). The Park and the People: A History of Central Park. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-9751-5.
One of the most poignant seasonal displays is a humble 18-foot tree hidden in Central Park. Every holiday season for nearly the past 40 years, a Hinoki false cypress in the depths of the park ...
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The Alice in Wonderland sculpture is located at Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, U.S.It is approximately at 74th Street, on the north side of Conservatory Water.The bronze statue by Jose de Creeft stands eleven feet high and portrays Alice surrounded by the Mad Hatter, White Rabbit, Cheshire Cat and other characters from Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ...
The Gates was a site-specific work of art by Bulgarian artist Christo Yavacheff and French artist Jeanne-Claude, known jointly as Christo and Jeanne-Claude.The artists installed 7,503 steel "gates" along 23 miles (37 km) of pathways in Central Park in New York City.
Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, New York City. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States, with 40 million visitors in 2013, and one of the most filmed locations in the world. A landmark of New York City since 1857, it has been featured in numerous films, TV shows, songs, video games, books, photographs, and ...