Waldo Hutchins Bench
Though there are many benches in Central Park, few are as special as this elaborate exedra (curved outdoor bench) overlooking ...

Walloon Settlers Monument
This nearly ten-foot-tall granite stele was designed by noted architect Henry Bacon (1866–1924).  The monument and ...

Wards Island Park
Wards Island Park is located on Wards Island, a 255-acre landmass lying in the northern end of the East River, between Manhatt...

Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Plaza
Who is this memorial dedicated to?This site is a solemn tribute to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the six million Jews who wer...

Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial
This impressive monument stands at the apex of Mitchel Square, where Broadway and St. Nicholas Avenue converge at West 168 Str...

Washington Square Arch
What is this monument dedicated to? This triumphal arch honors George Washington (1732-1799), first president of the United S...

Washington Square Park
Washington Square Park is named for George Washington (1732-1799), the commander of the Continental Army, who was inaugurated ...

West Harlem Piers
The West Harlem Waterfront Park is a landscaped transformation of the historic Manhattanville shoreline. For thousands of y...

West 186th Street Basketball Court
Once the site of useless rubble, this small urban lot has been transformed into much needed recreational space. The West 1...

West 4th Street Courts
These courts serve as a basketball mecca not only in Manhattan, but far beyond the City lines as well. Home to “the Cag...

White Playground
What was here before? The area, which became known as East Harlem, was rural for most of the 19th century. The constructio...

Wild Boar
This statue is a replica of the bronze wild boar, also known as Porcellino, completed in 1634 by Renaissance sculptor Pietro T...

William Earl Dodge
This bronze sculpture depicts William Earl Dodge (1805–1883), one of the founders of Phelps, Dodge, a leading mining com...

William F. Passannante Ballfield
What was here before? Long ago the area was home to the Lenape people. In the nineteenth century, the central Greenwich Vil...

William McCray Playground
World War I soldier William McCray (1898-1918) was born in New York City on February 7, 1898. He attended public school l...

William Seward Statue
This imposing bronze statue of statesman William Seward (1801–1872) was created by the artist Randolph Rogers (1825&ndas...

William Shakespeare Statue
Who is this monument dedicated to? William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon in April 1564. His father, John Shakes...

William T. Stead Memorial
Located just north of Engineer’s Gate at 91st Street and Fifth Avenue, this bronze bas-relief remembers British journali...

Wireless Operators Monument
Italian physicist and inventor Guglielmo Marchese Marconi (-1874–1937) carried out the first successful experiments of w...

Woman’s Health Protective Association Fountain
Located along Riverside Drive at 116th Street, this marble stele and drinking fountain was designed to commemorate the 25th an...