Tag: NYC

Patricia N. Saffran, Frontal Assault at the Sherman Equestrian Monument in New York’s Central Park

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Patricia N. Saffran New York City officials finally got rid of the highly polluting, unsightly large food trucks surrounding Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ historic masterpiece, the Sherman Equestrian Monument, off Fifth Avenue. https://jameshfetzer.org/2023/07/patricia-n-saffran-sherman-monument-ambushed-on-fifth-avenue-central-park/  Now the monument has a new enemy, an awkward, clunky, appalling Citibank bike rack, placed right in front of the valuable sculpture.   After the Plaza Hotel’s lawsuit against NYC DOT to remove the abysmal Citibank bike rack from their entrance was tossed by a judge, https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/judge-tosses-lawsuit-by-plaza-hotel-asking-to-have-citi-bike-rack-removed/  the bike rack continued its green mission in front of the hotel, all the while…

Patricia N. Saffran, Sherman Monument Ambushed on Fifth Avenue, Central Park 

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By Patricia N. Saffran Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ glorious William Tecumseh Sherman, known as the Sherman Monument, 1902, on Fifth Avenue, Grand Army Plaza, New York City, is one of the most important Beaux Arts sculptures in the country. The plinth was designed by architect Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead and White. Stanford White, of the same firm, was the architect of the Metropolitan Club, 1893, one block up on the avenue. The nearby landmarked Plaza Hotel dates from 1907, fronted with the picturesque Pulitzer fountain, 1911. Bergdorf Goodman, 1928, sits…