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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Central Park could be getting its first new bronze statues in over 60 years as a local group pushes to honor the women responsible for getting all Americans the right to vote.

Russian President Vladimir Putin showed up in a playground in New York City’s Central Park on Monday night. Well, not exactly – a bright-red sculpture of Putin was erected there by French ...

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 ...