Memorial to the “doughboys” of the World War I New York 107th Infantry who fought in “the war to end all wars.” Located in Central Park at East 67th Street at Fifth Avenue. Sculpted by 107th veteran Karl Illava.
Located in DeWitt Clinton Park @ 11th Avenue and 53rd Street, this statue of a WWI “doughboy” was dedicated to the young men from the neighborhood who fought and died “over there” in “the war to end all wars.” Sculptor: Burt W. Johnson Poem by John McCrae
Columbus Statue by sculptor Gaetano Russo
Columbus Statue & Trump International Hotel and Tower (Not “Thee” Trump Tower on 5th Ave , but a different one)
See them while you can. They’re coming to tear down the statue and implode the building.
The Shakespeare statue in Central park was paid for by a benefit performance of Julius Caesar in 1864 by the Booth brothers—Julius, Edwin, and (Lincoln assassin) John Wilkes. Sculpted by John Quincy Adams Ward.
In June 2020 the equestrian statue of Teddy Roosevelt was slated to take a rough ride from the steps of the entrance of NYC’s American Museum of Natural History into oblivion. — “The statue was meant to celebrate Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) as a devoted naturalist and author of works on natural history…. At the same time, the statue itself communicates a racial hierarchy that the Museum and members of the public have long found disturbing,” according to the museum’s website.
NYC connection: President Lincoln spoke at Cooper Union college in 1860. His 1863 draft order sparked 3 days of riots in NYC. His body lay in state at New York’s City Hall before departing for a funeral procession and a memorial service at Union Square.
Chester Alan Arthur was the only president not to have been elected to the office, having been the VP when President Garfield was assassinated in 1881 and thereafter losing his party’s primary. So why is there a statue of him in NYC’s Madison Square Park? Born in Vermont, he moved to NYC to practice law. When he assumed the presidency, he was living at 123 Lexington Ave. in Manhattan where he took the oath of office, becoming one of only two presidents, along with George Washington, to have been inaugurated in NYC. His friends commissioned the statue in the late 1890’s. He’s also one of only 42 presidents never to have been impeached.
