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This area of the Park was named after The Beatles' song in 1981, in
honor of John Lennon. It was designed by landscape architect Bruce Kelly
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Down the pathway there is a bronze plaque that lists the 121 countries that endorse Strawberry Fields as a Garden of Peace.
Location: Entrance at 72nd St. & Central Park West.
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26. Angel of the Waters Fountain
The Angel of the Waters fountain was sculpted by Emma Stebbins and unveiled in 1873 in the area called Bethesda Terrace. The artist expressed the healing powers of the angel and designed cascade of clean and pure water. The lily in her hand represents purity while the four figures below represent Peace, Health, Purity, and Temperance.
Location: Mid-Park on the north side of 72nd St.
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This Falconer was sculpted by George Blackall Simonds in 1875 and it depicts a human figure and a falcon, representing the union and communion between a bird of prey and man.
Location Mid-Park on the south south side of the 72nd St. Drive.
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The bust of Schiller, dramatist, poet, and philosopher, was the first sculpture to be placed in the Park.
Location: Westside of the Concert Ground/Mall, mid-Park at 72nd St.
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This granite statue was sculpted by Frederick George Richard Roth and placed in the park in 1938. The Mother Goose, fictional name traditionally associated with nursery rhymes, is depicted flying on the back of a goose as her cape expands outward from the rush of the wind.
Carved into both sides of the statue are some favorite childhood characters, such as Little Jack Horner, Humpty Dumpty and Little Bo Peep.
Location: 71st St. next to the Rumsey Playfield.
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This sand surface playfield is mostly used for school sports but is most famous for being the home of the "Central Park Summerstage", where hundreds of artists perform a varied catalog of free and paid musical concerts during the summer, of course....
Visit www.summerstage.org to see a schedule of events.
Location: Mid-Park at 72nd St.
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31. Cherry Hill and Wagner Cove
The decorative Today Cherry Hill is a restful destination for sunbathing or reading. A short walk west down a nearby slope leads to Wagner Cove, one of Central Park's hidden oasis of calm.
Location: West of Bethesda Terrace Mid-Park at 72nd St.
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This neoclassical limestone Bandshell was a gift of banker Elkan Naumburg
in 1923 and
replaced an earlier cast-iron bandstand.
This space is also famous for being the place where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once spoke and where John Lennon was eulogized. During the late 1980s, a new music festival called Summerstage was introduced at the Naumburg, which after a few seasons was moved to the more spacious Rumsey Playfield.
Location: Mid-Park & 72nd St.
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Henry Bearer created this bronze statue in 1884. The bust was then given to the town of New York by the male German-American choir. It was erected in Central Park in the same year.
Location: Mid-park & 70th St.
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Location: Mid-Park from 66th to 72nd Sts.
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Sculptor Christopher Fratin chose to depict the moment that a goat is accidentally trapped between two rocks and is about to be devoured by two birds of prey. Their talons are sunk into the back of the half-dead goat as the eagles victoriously flap their wings. The sculpture was placed in the Park in 1863.
Location: Mid-Park at 69th St.
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This monument was placed in the Park in 1927 and
Location: Perimeter Wall, 5th Ave. & 67th St.
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Balto was the lead dog of Gunnar Kasson's sled team which delivered medicine 655 miles to Nome, Alaska in a raging blizzard and thus saved the lives of thousands of men, women and children stricken by a diptheria epidemic. Sculptor Frederick G.R. Roth won the National Academy of Design's Speyer Prize in 1925 for his larger-than-life depiction of the heroic Balto.
Location: East Drive at 67th St.
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The Sheep Meadow is a 15-acre, lush, green
meadow for relaxing and admiring one of New York City's greatest skyline
views.
In the 1960s and the 1970s thousands of people were attracted to the Sheep Meadow for large-scale concerts. The first landing on the moon was televised to a large crowd on July 20, 1969. These events added to the lack of maintenance, severely eroded the lawn resulting in its restoration. It reopened in 1981 as a swath of green dedicated to sunbathers, picnickers, and kite flyers. The Center Drive, slightly further on, offers volleyball and the "skate circle" – the setting for serious roller-skating and disco skating.
Location: West side, mid-Park from 66th to 69th Sts.
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Indian Hunter was the first sculpture in Central Park (1869) by an American artist. This sculpture of a hunter, his bow and arrow in hand, restraining his faithful hunting dog, shows sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward's sensitive commitment to realism and anatomy.
Location: Pathway west of the Mall, east of the Sheep Meadow at 66th St.
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Built in 1870, the rural Victorian Gothic structure now known as Tavern
on the Green was designed by Jacob Wrey Mould as a sheepfold. It housed
200 South Down sheep, which grazed across the street in Central Park's
Sheep Meadow.
The sheepfold remained intact for close to 65 years, until legendary parks commissioner Robert Moses decided the building had a higher calling -- that of a restaurant. Tavern on the Green was launched on October 20, 1934, with a coachman in full regalia at the door. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia opened the restaurant with a brass key and in the company of a proud Moses, toured the facility.
Location: West Side between 66th and 67th Sts.
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The Carousel has been running since 1871. Back then, a blind mule and horse below the floor of the merry-go-round operated its movement. The current carousel was donated by the Michael Friedsam Foundation and boasts some of the biggest hand-carved jumping horses in the country.
Location: Mid-Park at 64th St.
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In 2002, this 14-acre area that was restored including the Pond and its surrounding landscape. The reconstruction included attractive shoreline and upland plantings, a new island habitat for birds and turtles, and a peaceful waterfall and series of cascades on the water body's west side.
Location: Central Park South between 5th and 6th Aves.
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Latin American heroes: José Martí, Simón Bolívar, and José de San Martín, stand at the head of the Avenue of the Americas.
José Martí was a Cuban patriot, journalist and poet who fought for the liberation of
Cuba from Spanish rule. The statue shows the moment when Martí was
mortally wounded, with the rearing horse dramatically reacting to the
violence. This
Simón Bolívar, born in Venezuela, was called El Liberator because of his victories over the Spaniards that resulted in the independence of Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.
The sculpture, which stands 15 feet tall on a 16 foot pedestal was
crafted by Sally James Farnham, and it depicts him sitting resolutely
José de San Martin, an Argentine general, fought the Spaniards and was responsible for the liberation of Argentina, Chile and Peru. The monument depicts him leading his armed forces into battle and is a smaller-scale replica cast from the original, erected in the Plaza de San Martin in Buenos Aires in 1862. It was sculpted by Louis J. Daumas and was a gift from the City of Buenos Aires to the City of New York.
Location: Artists' Gate, entrance to the Park at 59th St. and Avenue of the Americas.
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Heavily trafficked by frenetic tourists, business people and city residents; the Merchants’ Gate is one of the busiest entrances into Central Park.
The monument honors the 258 American sailors who perished when the battleship Maine exploded in harbor of Havana, Cuba. It is a massive 44-foot limestone pylon, crowned at the top with a gilded bronze sculpture of Columbia Triumphant in a seashell chariot pulled by three sea horses that signifies the United States' dominance of the seas. At the pylon's base, surrounding the ship are the mythological figures, Victory, Peace, Courage, Fortitude and Justice.
Location: Columbus Circle at Central Park South & Central Park West
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The bronze statue of The Pilgrim is a symbolic figure who commemorates the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. Mounted on a pedestal styled by Richard Morris Hunt and sculpted by John Quincy Adams Ward, he is shown in his customary attire with a rifle and was unveiled in 1885.
Location: 5th Ave. & 72nd St.
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is shaded by a grove of American elms. The famous black-and-white
"Imagine" mosaic is set in the pathway near its west entrance and is a
reproduction of a Pompeii mosaic. It is very common to see flowers,
candles and pictures of The Beatles and related artists on the site.
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elements for the
fountain at Cherry Hill were designed by Jacob Wrey Mould. The
ornamental finial on the fountain's top, the gilded cups brimming over
with water, the frosted glass globes for lighting, a sculpted bluestone
basin inset with Minton tiles. Cherry Hill was a popular
watering hole for horses in the 19th Century; their owners and carriage
drivers would gather to exchange gossip while the horses drank., a place
to admire the surrounding cherry trees in springtime bloom and take in
the lakeside view. 
This
open air space has served as an outdoor theater featuring musical events
and where, over the years, thousands of people gathered to see and hear
free show tunes, opera, jazz, Latin and rock bands. 
When
landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed
Central Park in 1858,
their Greensward Plan included a grand formal area that they called the
Mall or the Promenade. The lower end of the Mall is known informally as
Literary Walk or Poets' Walk, as four of the five statues memorialize
poets and writers: William Shakespeare (1870), Robert Burns (ca. 1880),
Sir Walter Scott (1871), and Fitz-Greene Halleck (1876); the fifth
represents Christopher Columbus (1892).
is
dedicated to those soldiers who served and died in World War I. The
sculptor, Karl Illava, was a sergeant with the 107th Infantry. He
captures from memory the myriad emotions and physical responses to war.
The seven larger than life-size figures display both the aggressive
stance of combat as well as the concerned care of wounded comrades.
This Carousel is one of the largest in the United
States, with 58 hand-carved, painted horses and is considered to be one
of the finest examples of turn-of-the-century folk art. Created in 1908,
Stein and Goldstein’s amazing craftsmanship is evidently displayed, as
the nearly life-size horses in the outer ring appear to come alive as
the Carousel quickly spins. In 1951, the Carousel was renovated and
updated with modernized equipment provided with a gift from the Michael
Friedsam Foundation. This three-and-a-half minute spin is worth every
cent. Admission: Adults $1, Kids $1.
