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William Shakespeare is an outdoor bronze sculpture of William Shakespeare by John Quincy Adams Ward, located in Central Park in Manhattan, New York. [1] The statue was created in 1870 and unveiled in Central Park in 1872. [ 2 ]
The Leicester Square statue also differs from its model in omitting portrait reliefs of Henry V, Richard III and Elizabeth I from the plinth on which Shakespeare rests. [2] The inscription on the pedestal in Leicester Square reads:
Times Square, specifically the intersection of Broadway and 42nd Street, is the eastern terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across the United States for motorized vehicles. [13] Times Square is sometimes referred to as "the Crossroads of the World" [14] and "the heart of the Great White Way". [15] [16] [17]
Times Square at midnight is usually “jam-packed” on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, he said. “Tourists come from all over to see this. If it wasn’t raining, it’d be packed out here.
The Times Square ball first dropped in 1904, and it came into being thanks to Jacob Starr, a Ukranian immigrant and metalworker, and the former New York Times publisher, Adolph Ochs.
The 2025 New Year's Eve numerals are lit up in Times Square on December 18, 2024 in New York City. Temperatures will be chilly for most in the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest, where a storm ...
William Shakespeare has been commemorated in a number of different statues and memorials around the world, notably his funerary monument in Stratford-upon-Avon (c. 1623); a statue in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, London, designed by William Kent and executed by Peter Scheemakers (1740); [1] and a statue in New York's Central Park by John ...
Statue of William Shakespeare may refer to the following monuments to William Shakespeare: Statue of William Shakespeare, Leicester Square, London, by Giovanni Fontana, 1874; Statue of William Shakespeare (Roubiliac), in the British Library, London, by Louis-François Roubiliac, 1757