The bronze statue (1876) of statesman William Seward, United States Senator and Secretary of State in Madison Squrae Garden. More than 250 subscribers, among them General Ulysses S. Grant and Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt , contributed to the monument’s $25,000 cost. Seward is said to be the first New Yorker to be honored with a monument in the city.
Lombard Lamp illuminates this corner of Central Park where a long, winding staircase leads up from the Pond to the Grand Army Plaza. A replica of the ornate streetlights that grace the Lombard Bridge in Hamburg, Germany, the lamp was presented to Central Park in 1979 — a symbolic gift of friendship and goodwill from officials of that city.
Washington Mews, a little alley north of Washington Square Park, lined on each side with two-story carriage houses that were converted into artists’ studios, including those of Paul Manship (who sculpted the Rockefeller Center fountain’s golden “Prometheus”) and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the museum that bears her name.
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