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...

Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen Statue
This bronze, life-sized sculpture is a self-portrait of the esteemed Danish sculptor Albert Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), and...

Alexander Hamilton Monument
This larger-than-life-size statue depicts Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804), the eminent statesmen of a fledgling United St...

Alexander Lyman Holley Monument
  In Honor of Alexander Lyman Holley Foremost Among Those Whose Genius and Energy Established in America and Improve...

Alexander Von Humboldt Monument
This heroic-sized bronze bust by Gustaf Blaeser (1813–1874) depicts German scientist, explorer, and naturalist Frederick...

Alfred E. Smith Statue
This bronze statue by Charles Keck (1875–1951) depicts Alfred Emanuel Smith (1873–1944), a Lower East Side boy who...

Alice in Wonderland Monument
  "Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice.   This impressive sculptural group, on the north side ...