New York Statues Meet a Quiet Memorial Gap
A columnist laments New York’s sparse statues honoring native-born citizens and celebrates foreign-born Americans who funded and gifted monuments. He highlights figures like Hamilton, Stuyvesant, and Delafields, and argues for more commemorations of notable New Yorkers from politics, science, and culture.
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Haarlem
Rouwerle Lane
Bowling Green
New York City
Peter Cooper
Saint-Gaudens
Cooper Union
Abraham de Peyster
James Duane
Philip Hone
Hall of Records
Washington Irving
Bryant Park
John Jay
Chamber of Commerce
Union Square
Sub-Treasury
Lafayette
Manhattan Avenue
114Th Street
Brooklyn
Alexander Hamilton
Central Park
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hamilton Hall
Columbia University
Weehawken
Peter Stuyvesant
de Witt Clinton
New York
Whitelaw Reid
H. J. Raymond
Charles A. Dana
Ien
Riverside Drive
Mighty-ninth Street
Greater New York
Pifty
Ninth Street
Eighth Avenue
Gaetano Russo
Caribaldi
Giovanni Parini
Washington Square
Mazzini
Verrazano
Battery Park
Bartheldi
Lust Street
Mott Avenue
Bren
Christopher Co Tumis
Columbus
McGown
Wishth Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
Mall
Sundl
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
Stephen van Rensselaer
Gov. Lewis
van Rensselaer
Nillian van Rensselaer
Albany
James William Teekman
William Beekman
Holland
Erastus Corning
Thurlow Weed
Buchanan
Fort Sumter
Woman’s Hospital
New York Hospital
New York Dispensary
Gerardus Beekman
William H. Seward
Madison Square Park
Hamilton Fish
Hamlon Fish
Pitt and
Sheriff Streets
Congress
Delafield
Joseph
Richard
Manhattan
Joseph Delafield
New York Lyceum of Natural History
America
Hawkins
Forty-sixth Infantry
United States
Ghent
United
Army
Hampton Roads
Mississippi
Delaware Bay
United States Military Academy
West Point
Gov. Morgan
Engineer Corps
Bureau of Engineers
War Department
Military Academy
Light House
Boston Harbor
Europe
McClellan
Mordecai
Delafield Brothers
New
Horace Greeley
William Cullen Bryant
Gen. Wolfe
Washington Arch
J. Pierpont Morgan
Russell Sage
William B. Astor
D. O. Mills
Livingstons
Robert R. Livingston
Edward Livingston
Lewis Morris
Potter
Bishop Doane
Henry Barclay
Verdi
Gutenberg
Bolivar
Martin van Buren
Millard Fillmore
Thomas Moore
Fitz-Greene Halleck
Charles Fenno Hoffman
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth
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