The $1.5 million statue will be installed at Central Park’s Literary Walk, near 70th Street. It will be funded largely from private contributions including donations from Girl Scout cookie sales ...

Become a paid member to listen to this article. Central Park is perhaps New York’s best-known, albeit unofficial, sculpture park, featuring famous sculptures like The Angel of the Waters in ...

NYC Girl Scouts push to get statues of women in Central Park. ... 2016 photo, a statue of Simon Bolivar, a 19th century Venezuelan leader, stands at an entrance to New York’s Central Park.

The first-ever statue in New York City's Central Park to portray real women was unveiled Wednesday on the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s ratification.

The statue, named Forever at the Finish Line, typically stands at 90th Street and East Drive in Central Park. On the first Sunday of November, however, park workers lift the 600-pound sculpture ...

New York — Central Park is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, with its first-ever statues of real-life women.

While it is Central Park's first monument dedicated to real women, there are 23 statues dedicated to real men already in the park, according to Monumental Women. It's also the first statue to be ...

New York statue of doctor who experimented on black women eyed for removal. ... The statue stands in Central Park, near Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street near the Museum of the City of New York.

Central Park was originally designed with only one statue commission: Emma Stebbins’s 1873 “Angel of the Waters” for Bethesda Terrace. It was groundbreaking in that it was the first public ...

It’s monumental. A statue of three women’s rights pioneers was unveiled in Central Park on Wednesday — becoming the 167-year-old green expanse’s first monument to real-life female figures.