The City of New York's public sculptures would make a long list. The Statue of Liberty stands on an island in the harbor and belongs not to New York but to the world. While still part of New York, it surrounded by waters that are part of New Jersey and the city of Jersey City. Still, it is often symbolic of everything that New York City represents.

New Yorkers pulled down the statue of George III in Bowling Green and melted him and the railings that protected him for bullets during the American Revolution. Since then, public sculpture, and some private sculpture too, has been part of the cityscape.

In Manhattan

• The statues of Giovanni da Verrazano, John Ambrose and John Ericsson in Battery Park.
• The famous Charging Bull of Bowling Green Plaza.
• George Washington outside Federal Hall.
• Benjamin Franklin outside Pace University.
• Nathan Hale outside City Hall.
• Vladimir Lenin located at Houston Street between Avenues A and B
• Mahatma Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln in Union Square
• Jackie Gleason outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal
• The Alamo, the balanced cube in Astor Place
• William Cullen Bryant in Bryant Park
• The Joan of Arc equestrian statue in Riverside Park
• Abundance, crowning the Pulitzer fountain in front of the Plaza Hotel

In Central Park

North of Conservatory Water, the sailboat pond, there is a larger than life bronze statue of Alice, sitting on a huge mushroom, playing with her cat, while the Mad Hatter and the March Hare look on. Not too far away, just West of the model boat house, there is a statue of Hans Christian Andersen, holding an open book, with the diminutive hero of The Ugly Duckling in front of him. There are about a dozen other statues in the park and in the Mall.

• General Sherman, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, at the southeast corner of Central Park
• Simon Bolivar at the head of Avenue of the Americas
• José Marti flanking Bolivar
• The Monument to the Maine at Columbus Circle
• King Władysłav Jagiełło next to Turtle Pond
• Balto Northwest of the Children's Zoo

In the Bronx

• The Bronx Zoo has a statue of a Rhinoceros.

In Brooklyn

In Queens

• Civic Virtue the nude Hercules who made a scandal in City Hall Park and was banished to Queens

• Socrates Sculpture Park on Vernon Blvd. and Broadway in Long Island City

In Staten Island

External links

• "Who are those guys(and gals)?" for Lower Manhattan at Forgotten NY
• "Who are those guys(and gals)?" for Chinatown, Soho and the Village at Forgotten NY
• "Who are those guys(and gals)?" for Madison and Union Square at Forgotten NY
• "Who are those guys(and gals)?" for Midtown at Forgotten NY
• "Who are those guys(and gals)?" for Central Park at Forgotten NY