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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.

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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.

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Index of Historical Statues

Last updated: April 7, 2008

This (see below) is a complete list, so far as I can tell, of the 154 historical statues in New York City, as this Web site defines them. That is to say, any accessible, outdoor, three-dimensional figure of a once-living thing.

Things that do not count, as I have said, are 1) bas-reliefs or plaques of text affixed to boulders, flagpoles, etc.; 2) statues or busts that are largely inaccessible to the public or are really architectural features of a building, such as the figures that ring the appellate court building in Manhattan; 3) and other large aggregations of statues, such as the Hall of Fame of Great Americans at Bronx Community College.

(Just to be fair and complete, if you add the ones I do count to the ones I don’t count [these are listed at the bottom of the page], you have a total of 279 historical figures in the five boroughs.)

I have included the figures of Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden at the Port Authority and Edwin Booth as Hamlet in Central Park because these are prominent and easy to visit. And I included the two figures of George Washington that were added to the memorial arch in Washington Square because of their size and placement.

Also, I have removed from the list proper the handful of busts and statues that are located at churches or public schools, as I am not sure that some of them are accessible enough for our purposes.

There are a few blank spaces; these are just a matter of doublechecking facts. And I will refine some of the location descriptions as I go along.

Obviously, if you can think of a statue that is not listed here, please let us know.

SUBJECTSCULPTOR YEARLOCATION

Alighieri, Dante

Ximenes, Ettore

1921

Dante Square, Broadway and Columbus

Ambrose, John Wolf

O’Connor, Andrew Jr.

1936

Battery Park

Andersen, Hans Christian

Lober, Georg

1956

Central Park, Fifth Avenue and 74th

Andrada, Jose Bonifacio

Lima, Jose

1955

Bryant Park, Manhattan

Aristotle

Tzaras, George V.

2008

Athens Square, Queens

Arthur, Chester Alan

Bissell, George Edwin

1898

Madison Square, Manhattan

Artigas, Jose

San Martin, Jose Luis Zorrilla de

1949

Sixth Avenue and Dominick (Spring)

Balto

Roth, Frederick George Richard

1925

Central Park

Beecher, Henry Ward

Borglum, Gutzon

1910

Plymouth Church, Brooklyn

Beecher, Henry Ward

Ward, John Quincy Adams

1891

Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn

Beethoven, Ludwig von

Baerer, Henry

1894

Concert Grove, Prospect Park

Beethoven, Ludwig von

Baerer, Henry

1884

Central Park

Bolivar, Simon

Farnham, Sally James

1921

Central Park South and Sixth Avenue

Booth, Edwin (as Hamlet)

Quinn, Edmond Thomas

1918

Grammercy Park

Brownson, Orestes Augustus

Kitson, Samuel James

1910

Fordham

Bryan, William Cullen

Adams, Herbert

1911

Bryant Park, Manhattan

Burns, Robert

Steell, Sir John

1890

Central Park

Burroughs, John

Pietro, Sciarrino Caraino

1914

P.S. 188, Bayside, Queens

Butterfield, Gen. Daniel

Borglum, Gutzon

1918

Sakura Park

Carver, George Washington

Amendola, Robert

1955

Carver Houses, Manhattan

Cervantes, Miguel de

Miranda, Fernando

1986

Fifth Avenue, north of Washington Square

Clinton, DeWitt

Brown, Henry Kirke

1853

Green-Wood Cemetery

Clinton, DeWitt

Weinman, Adolph

1941

Museum of the City of New York

Cohan, George M.

Lober, Georg

1958

Times Square

Columbus, Christopher

Piccirilli, Attilio

1925

East 183rd and Crescent, the Bronx

Columbus, Christopher

Racioppi, Angelo

1941

Columbus Square, Queens

Columbus, Christopher

Russo, Gaetano

1892

Columbus Circle

Columbus, Christopher

Stebbins, Emma

1934

Columbus Park, Brooklyn

Columbus, Christopher

Sunol, Jeronimo

1894

Central Park

Confucius

Liu Shih

1977

Bowery at Division Street

Conkling, Roscoe

Ward, John Quincy Adams

1893

Madison Square

Cooper, Peter

White, Stanford

1897

Cooper Square

Cox, Samuel

Lawson, Louise

1891

Tompkins Square

Dodge, William Earle

Ward, John Quincy Adams

1941

Bryant Park

Duarte, Juan Pablo

Arrighini, Nicola

1978

Duarte Square, Canal and Sixth Avenue

Duffy, Father Francis P.

Keck, Charles

1937

North end of Times Square

Dvorak, Antonin

Mestrovic, Ivan

1963

Stuyvesant Square, 17th and Perlman

El Cid Campeador

Huntington, Anna Vaughn Hyatt

1927

Broadway and 155th

Ellington, Duke

Graham, Robert

1997

Central Park, 110th and 5th

Ericsson, John

Hartley, Jonathan Scott

1903

Battery Park

Farragut, Adm. David Glasgow

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

1891

Madison Square

Fowler, Gen. Edward B.

Baerer, Henry

1902

Lafayette, Fulton and South Elliott

Franklin, Benjamin

Plassmann, Ernst

1872

Printing House Square

Fulton, Robert

Buberl, Caspar

1872

Fulton Park

Gandhi, Mohandas

Patel, Kantilal B.

1986

Union Square

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Turini, Giovanni

1888

Washington Square, Manhattan

Gaynor, William Jay

Weinman, Adolph Augustus

1926

Cadman Plaza

Gleason, Jackie (as Ralph Kramden)

Du Grenier, Robert

2000

Port Authority, 8th Avenue and 40th

Grant, Gen. Ulysses S.

O’Donovan, William Rudolf and Eakins, Thomas

1893

Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn

Grant, Gen. Ulysses S.

Partridge, William Ordway

1896

Grant Park, Brooklyn

Greeley, Horace

Doyle, Alexander

1894

32nd between Broadway and Sixth

Greeley, Horace

Ward, John Quincy Adams

1915

City Hall Park

Grieg, Edvard

Asbjornsen, Sigvald

1914

Prospect Park, Concert Grove

Guider, Joseph A.

Frassanito, Romeo

1930

Guider Park, Brooklyn

Hale, Nathan

MacMonnies, Frederick William

1893

City Hall Park, Manhattan

Halleck, Fitz-Greene

MacDonald, James Wilson Alexander

1877

Central Park, east side of mall at 66th

Hamilton, Alexander

Conrads, Carl H.

1880

Central Park, East Drive and 73rd

Hamilton, Alexander

Partridge, William Ordway

1893

Hamilton Grange

Hamilton, Alexander

Partridge, William Ordway

1908

Columbia

Hamilton, Alexander

Weinman, Adolph A.

1941

Museum of the City of New York

Hammarskjold, Dag

Ari, Carina

1981

United Nations, 240 E. 47th

Hancock, Gen. Winfield Scott

MacDonald, James Wilson Alexander

1893

Hancock Square, Harlem

Heintz, Louis J.

Feitu, Pierre

1909

Joyce Kilmer Park, The Bronx

Herbert, Victor

Quinn, Edmond Thomas

1927

Central Park

Holley, Alexander

Ward, John Quincy Adams

1890

Washington Square, Manhattan

Hudson, Henry

Bitter, Karl

1939

Hudson Memorial Park, The Bronx

Hughes, John

Power, Maurice J.

1891

Fordham

Hunt, Richard Morris

French, Daniel Chester

1898

Central Park, Fifth Avenue and 70th

Huntington, Arabella

Huntington, Anna Vaughn Hyatt

Woodlawn Cemetery, the Bronx

Irving, Washington

MacDonald, James Wilson Alexander

1871

Prospect Park

Jefferson, Thomas

Partridge, William Ordway

1914

Columbia

Joan of Arc

Huntington, Anna Vaughn Hyatt

1915

Riverside Drive at 93rd Street, Manhattan

Juarez, Benito

Cabrera, Moises

2004

Bryant Park, Manhattan

Karski, Jan

Badyna, Karol

2007

Madison and 37th

Kennedy, John F. *

Estern, Neil

1965

Prospect Park

Kennedy, Robert F.

Duveen, Anneta

1972

Cadman Plaza

King Jagiello

Ostrowski, Stanislaw Kazimierz Waclaw

1945

Central Park, West 85th

King Jr., Martin Luther

Sawyer, Sam

1970

Esplanade Garden Houses

Kossuth, Louis

Horvay, John

1930

Riverside Drive and 113th

Lafayette and Washington

Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste

1900

Morningside Park, Manhattan

Lafayette, Marquis de

Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste

1876

Union Square

Lafayette, Marquis de

French, Daniel Chester

1917

Prospect Park, 9th Street and Park West

LaGuardia, Fiorello

Davidson, Jo

1957

LaGuardia Houses, Madison and Clinton, Manhattan

LaGuardia, Fiorello

Laguardia Place between Bleecker and West 3rd

Lebow, Fred

1926

Central Park, 5th and 90th

Lewisohn, Adolph

Beach, Chester

1926

N.Y.U. campus near Schapiro Center

Lin Ze Xu

1999

East Broadway at Chatham Square

Lincoln, Abraham

O’Donovan, William Rudolf and Eakins, Thomas

1893

Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn

Lincoln, Abraham

Brown, Henry Kirke

1870

Union Square

Lincoln, Abraham

Brown, Henry Kirke

1869

Prospect Park

Lincoln, Abraham (and child)

Keck, Charles

1948

Lincoln Houses, 135th and Madison

Lowry, The Rev. Benjamin L.

Pugh, Robert W.

1982

Lowry Triangle, Brooklyn

MacDonald, Capt. Gerald

Henwood, Frederic De

1934

Queens Boulevard and 71st

Marti, Jose

Huntington, Anna Vaughn Hyatt

1965

Central Park South and Sixth Avenue

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Turini, Giovanni

1878

Central Park

McNair, Ronald

Fayomi, Ogundipe

1994

Ronald McNair Park, Brooklyn

Meir, Golda

Goldfine, Beatrice

1984

West 38th and Broadway

Mitchel, John Purroy

Weinman, Adolph Alexander

1928

Central Park, 95th Street

Moore, Thomas

Draddy, John G.

1879

Prospect Park

Moore, Thomas

Sheahan, D. B.

1880

Central Park

Morse, Samuel

Pickett, Byron M.

1870

Central Park, 5th and 72nd

Moses

Mohr, Larry

1987

Fordham

Mozart, Amadeus

Mueller, Augustus Max Johannes

1897

Prospect Park

Paulo, Frank D.

Davidson, Amy Rachel

1985

Staten Island Borough Hall Plaza

Peyster, Abraham de

Bissell, George Edwin

1896

Hanover Square, Manhattan

Poppenhusen, Conrad

Baerer, Henry

1884

Queens, College Point and 12th Avenue

Poe, Edgar Allen

Quinn, Edmond T.

1909

Poe Cottage, the Bronx

Porter, Josiah

Noble, W. Clark

1902

Van Cortlandt Park

Randall, Robert Richard

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

1883

Sailor’s Snug Harbor, Staten Island

Rea, Samuel

Weinman, Samuel

1910

Penn Station

Riis, Jacob

1940

Jacob Riis Park, Queens

Robinson, Jackie

Hardison, Ingie

1981

West 147th and Bradhurst

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Jencks, Penelope

1996

Riverside Drive and 72nd

Roosevelt, Theodore

Fraser, James Earle

1940

American Museum of Natural History

San Martin, Jose de

Daumas, Louis Joseph

1951

Central Park South and Sixth Avenue

Schurz, Carl

Bitter, Karl

1913

Morningside Park, Manhattan

Scott, Sir Walter

Steell, Sir John

1872

Central Park

Seward, William H.

Rogers, Randolph

1876

Madison Square

Shakespeare

Ward, John Quincy Adams

1872

Central Park

Sheridan, Gen. Phillip

Polla, Joseph

1936

Sheridan Square

Sherman, Gen. William T.

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

1903

Central Park

Sigel, Gen. Franz

Bitter, Karl

1907

Riverside Drive and 106th

Sims, J. Marion

Von Miller, Ferdinand

1892

Central Park, 103rd and 5th

Skene, Alexander

Rhind, John Massey

1906

Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn

Slocum, Gen. Henry Warner

MacMonnies, Frederick William

1905

Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn

Smith, Gov. Alfred E.

Keck, Charles

1950

Catherine Slip, Madison, and South Streets, L.E.S.

Socrates

Frudakis, Anthony

1993

Athens Square, Queens

Stein, Gertrude

Davidson, Jo

1991

Bryant Park, Manhattan

Stranahan, J. S. T.

MacMonnies, Frederick William

1891

Prospect Park, East Drive and Flatbush

Stuyvesant, Peter

Dupuis, Toon

1915

Second Avenue and 10th

Stuyvesant, Peter

Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt

1941

Stuyvesant Square

Thorvaldsen, Albert

Thorvaldsen, Albert

1894

Central Park, West 96th and Fifth

Tilden, Samuel J.

Partridge, William Ordway

1926

Riverside Park

Tompkins, Gov. Daniel

O. Grymes

1939

Second Avenue and 10th Street

Tucker, Richard

Hebald, Milton

1979

West 66th, Broadway and Columbus

Van Amringe, John Howard

Partridge, William Ordway

1918

Columbia

Vanderbilt, Cornelius

Plassmann, Ernst

1869

Grand Central Terminal

Verdi, Giuseppe

Civiletti, Pasquale

1906

Broadway and Amsterdam

Verrazano, Giovanni da

Ximenes, Ettore

1921

Battery Park

Vitoria, Francisco de

Toledo, Francisco

1976

United Nations

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

Fischer, Karl

1932

Bryant Park

Von Humboldt, Alexander

Blaser, Gustav

1869

Central Park West and 77th

Von Schiller, Johann Christoph Frederic

Richter, C. L.

1859

Central Park

Von Weber, Carl Maria

Beach, Chester

1907

Prospect Park

Wagner, Robert F.

Lober, Georg

1959

Wagner Houses, F.D.R. Drive and E. 120th

Warren, Gen. Gouverneur Kemble

Baerer, Henry

1896

Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn

Washington, George

Brown, Henry Kirke

1853

Union Square

Washington, George (as President)

Calder, Alexander Stirling

1918

Washington Square, Manhattan

Washington, George (as C.I.C.)

MacNeil, Hermon A.

1918

Washington Square, Manhattan

Washington, George

DeLue, Donald

1967

Flushing Meadows/Corona Park, Queens

Washington, George

Shrady, Henry Merwin

1906

Washington Plaza, Brooklyn

Washington, George

Ward, John Quincy Adams

1883

Federal Hall

Watts, John

Bissell, George Edwin

1890

Trinity Church, Manhattan

Webb, Alexander Stewart

Rhind, John Massey

1917

C.U.N.Y. campus, 138th and Convent Ave.

Webster, Daniel

Ball, Thomas

1876

Central Park, West Drive and West 72nd

* J.F.K.’s statue is in storage as part of some sort of conservation effort.

OTHER HISTORICAL SCULPTURE (125 STATUES):

  • The facade of the Surrogate’s Court, the former Hall of Records, 31 Chambers St., contains 42 sculptures, of which eight are historical figures: the Dutch merchant David Pietersen De Vries, the Dutch colonial administrator Peter Stuyvesant, and the New York mayors Caleb Heathcote, DeWitt Clinton, Philip Hone, Sadwallader David Colden and James Duane. These were made by Philip Martiny.
  • The facade of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is fairly festooned with sculpture, including six historical figures meant to represent famous systems of law: the Iranian prophet Zoraster by Edward Clark Porter, the Anglo-Saxon king Alfred the Great by Jonathan Scott Hartley, the Spartan statesman Lycurgus, the Athenian statesman Solon, the French king Louis IX by John Talbott Donoghue and Justinian by Henry Kirke Brown. There was a statue of Muhammad, but this was removed in 1955 because of Muslim objections. And there is an seventh statue, of Manu, to symbolize hindu law, who so far as I can tell is not a real person.
  • The facade of the Customs House across from Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan has 12 figures intended to represent great sea-faring nations. Five of the figures are historic figures. The first three are intended to represent Greece, Rome and Phoenicia. Fourth from the left is a figure of Columbus sculpted by Augustus Lukeman dedicated to Genoa. Fifth is Venice and sixth from the left is Queen Isabella by Francois Michel Louis Toneti, representing Spain. Next to Spain is Holland, symbolized by a figure of Admiral Van Trumo carved by Louis St. Gaudens. Next to Holland is Portugal and a figure of Dom Henrique (Prince Henry the Navigator), also by St. Gaudens. Next to Portugal is Denmark and next to that was originally Germany, but after World War I the statue had its Germanic insignia removed in a fit of whatever and it was renamed for Belgium. On the far right is England and a figure of Queen Victoria by Charles Graftly. The statues are 11 feet tall, sculpted in Tennessee marble and each weighs 200 tons.
  • Set in the facade of the I. Miller Building, 46th and Broadway, are the figures of four famous actresses, Ethel Barrymore as Ophelia, Marilyn Miller as Sunny, Mary Pickford as Little Lord Fauntleroy and Rosa Ponselle as Norma.
  • There is a statue of Vladimir Lenin on top of an apartment building at East Houston and Avenue A.
  • There are 97 busts at the Hall of Fame of Great Americans at Bronx Community College, but I won’t list them here. Check out the hall’s nifty online tour.
  • There are at least four statues at New York schools, which are not included in the list above because I don’t think you can call a school campus a public space. They are Thomas A. Edison by John R. Terken (1958) at Edison High School in Queens, Desierius Erasmus by Hendrick Keiser (1930) at Erasmus Hall High School in Manhattan, Washington Irving by Friedrich Beer (1935) at Irving High School at Irving Place and E. 17th and, a personal favorite of mine, John Peter Zenger by Joseph Kiselewski (1951) at P.S. 18 in The Bronx.