107th Infantry Memorial
Who is this monument dedicated to?Sculptor Karl Illava (1896–1954) created this dynamic bronze figural group depicting s...

123rd Street Playground
What was here before? The site lies within the area settled following the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811. Created b...

132nd Street Community Garden
This garden is named for nearby 132nd Street in Harlem. Colonized by Dutch farmers in the late 1600s, this area was origina...

24 Sycamores Playground
What was here before? Historically, most of this parcel was underwater, with the original East River shoreline cutting along ...

3000 A.D. Diffusion Piece
What is this artwork? Dedicated in 1974, 3000 A.D. Diffusion Piece is a conceptual artwork commissioned through a juried prog...

369th Infantry Regiment Memorial
Who/what is this monument dedicated to? This monument honors the legendary 369th Infantry Regiment, known as the Harlem Hel...

A. Philip Randolph Square
What was here before? This section of Harlem was home to the Lenape prior to colonization by Dutch Settlers in the 1660s. S...

ABC Playground
The name of ABC Playground reflects both its location at the northern edge of Alphabet City and its proximity to Public School...

Abe Lebewohl Park
Over a period of forty years, Abe Lebewohl (1931-1996) transformed his Second Avenue Deli into a New York institution, drawing...

Abingdon Square Doughboy
As its faded inscription reads, this sculpture was “erected by popular subscription in honor of the brave men who went f...

Abingdon Square Park
What was here before? In 1744, Sir Peter Warren, a vice admiral in the British Navy, purchased a three hundred-acre farm in...

Abraham De Peyster Statue
Who is this monument dedicated to? This bronze portrait statue, by American sculptor George Edwin Bissell (1839-1920), depi...

Abraham Lincoln Playground
What was here before? East Harlem was once mostly industrial, and this park was the site of a coal yard that was surrounded...

Abraham Lincoln Statue
One of three sculptural renditions of Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) in New York City’s parks, this larger-than-life ...

Abyssinian Tot Lot
The Abyssinian Baptist Church was the first African American Baptist congregation in the state of New York and the fourth in t...

Admiral David Glasgow Farragut Monument
The Admiral Farragut Monument at the north end of Madison Square Park is one of the finest outdoor monuments in New York City....

Admiral Park Sy Seplowe Playground
Admiral David Dixon Porter (1813–1891), for whom both the park and the adjacent Public School 94 are named, was born in ...

African Antelopes
These limestone reliefs by Frederick G. R. Roth (1872-1944) were created as decorative friezes for the Antelope House in the 1...

Ahearn Park
This small Lower East Side park is one of New York City’s oldest. On August 2, 1824, the Common Council agreed to ta...

Alamo
Located in the small traffic triangle to the south of the historic Astor Place subway entrance and directly northwest of Coope...