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Cactus Couple
Located on the south roof deck of the Parks administrative headquarters in Central Park, this lovely garden sculpture by Thea ...

Cadman Plaza Park
What was here before?Prior to European settlement, Brooklyn Heights was a Lenape village named Ihpetonga, meaning “high ...

Cadman Plaza/Brooklyn Bridge - Peregrine Falcons in New York City
This park, named for Brooklyn Congregational minister and radio preacher Reverend Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman (1864-1936), is a p...

Cadwallader Colden Playground
Located at the intersection of Union Street and 31st Road, this playground takes its name from nearby Public School 214, the...

Call of the Sea Sculpture
This lively bronze sculpture, in which a young girl rides on the back of a dolphin, was sculpted in 1923 by Harriet Frishmuth ...

Callahan-Kelly Park
What was here before? Callahan-Kelly Park lies at the northern edge of the neighborhood of Brownsville, named for real estate...

Calvary Veterans Park
What was here before? This site, in a triangle formed by First Calvary, Green Avenue, and Gale Street within Calvary Cemete...

Calvert Circle
This circle honors Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) the English architect who spent 40 years of his distinguished career in New York C...

Calvert Vaux Park
What was here before? The Coney Island Creek that runs through the park was once home to small ports and shipyards, and in ...

Calvert Vaux Park - Ospreys in New York City
This 73-acre park, named for the English architect who co-designed Central and Prospect Parks, provides a diverse ecosystem, s...

Camperdown Elm
The Camperdown Elm (Ulmus glabra ‘Camperdownii’) was propagated in the late 1830s when a mutant Scots Elm bra...

Canal Park
This park was among the city’s first public spaces, officially recognized since 1686.  At that time, it took its na...

Canarsie Park
What was here before?The Canarsie resided here for thousands of years and called the area now known as the Flatlands, Keskateu...

Capodanno Memorial
This memorial, located along Seaside Boulevard and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Boardwalk and Beach, commemorates the Congres...

Captain Dermody Triangle
This triangle honors Captain William C. Dermody, a dedicated and outspoken abolitionist who was mortally wounded in the Civil ...

Captain Gerald MacDonald Statue
This bronze sculpture depicts Captain Gerald MacDonald (1882–1929), a Forest Hills resident who served in the 22nd and 1...

Captain John McKenna, IV Park
What was here before?First inhabited by the Canarsie, the area now known as Windsor Terrace was later owned in the nineteenth ...

Captain Mario Fajardo Park
What was here before? This site is adjacent to Kissena Creek which is currently buried beneath the park and surrounding nei...

Captain O’Sullivan Plaza
Christopher J. O’Sullivan (1936-1965) was born and raised in Astoria, not far from this triangular plaza at Astoria Boul...

Captain Oliver Triangle
This triangle, located at the junction of East 161st Street, Third Avenue, and St. Anne’s Avenue in the Bronx neighborho...

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