All pages for statues and sculptors are listed alphabetically (see below); click the plus sign next to the letter to pop out the directory.
An asterisk denotes a bust.
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Statues archived as of today out of 154. (A total of 279 in the five boroughs.) Don’t know what I’m talking about? Start here.
Don’t see what you’re looking for? Check the statue index for a complete list of monuments, or use our search engine.
Feel free to contact us with your thoughts and photos or if you think we have made a mistake.
The city maintains an excellent online catalog of the more than 1,000 monuments to be found in city parks.
The just-as excellent Web site forgotten-ny.com has several sections running down the statues of Manhattan.
Dianne Durante, author of the somewhat esoteric “Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan,” maintains an excellent Web site of her essays and other musings on what she calls representational art.
There are 97 busts in the Hall of Fame of Great Americans at Bronx Community College. Because there is already an excellent online tour of the hall, those memorials get only a passing mention here.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum supports an amazing online inventory of sculptures across the country.
Karol Badyna made the figure of Jan Karski, the hero of the Polish underground, that stands outside the Polish Consulate in Midtown. Badyna is a sculptor from Poland. He teaches at the Art Academy in Krakow. You can visit his Web site by clicking here.
