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  1. Park Drive
  2. Grant’s Tomb
  3. Skate Park
  4. Joan of Arc Statue
  5. Garden for All Seasons
  6. 91st Street Garden
  7. Soldiers and Sailors Monument
  8. River Run Playground
  9. 79th Street Boat Basin
  10. 79th Street Rotunda
  11. Eleanor Roosevelt Monument
  12. Riverside Park South

Riverside Park Virtual Tour

11) Eleanor Roosevelt Monument

The monument, honoring humanitarian and First Lady Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), was dedicated at 72nd Street on October 5, 1996 in the presence of Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States. Penelope Jencks was the sculptor. A new landscape on the site of a former West Side Highway access ramp was designed by Bruce Kelly/David Varnell Landscape Architects. Funding for the $1.3 million Eleanor Roosevelt Monument project, which included a renovated entranceway, was provided by the City of New York, the State of New York, and the Eleanor Roosevelt Monument Fund, which has established an endowment for the ongoing maintenance of the sculpture.

image of monument
Sarah Kunstler