Charging Bull (Wall Street Bull / Bowling Green Bull)
Placering: Bowling Green Park near Wall Street. Downtown Manhattan. NYC
Konstnär: Arturo Di Modica
Material: Brons
This is a 3,200 kilograms (7,100 lb) sculpture, 11 feet (3.4 m) tall and is measuring 16 feet (4.9 m) long. The oversize sculpture depicts a bull, the symbol of aggressive financial optimism and prosperity, leaning back on its haunches and with its head lowered as if ready to charge. The sculpture is both a popular tourist destination which draws thousands of people a day, as well as "one of the most iconic images of New York and a "Wall Street icon" symbolizing "Wall Street" and the Financial District.
Eagle I
Placering: Battery Park. Downtown, Manhattan. NYC
Konstnär: Albino Manca (1898-1976)
Material: Brons
A monumental bronze eagle set on a pedestal of polished black granite, grips a laurel wreath over a wave — signifying the act of mourning at the watery grave. The monument was commissioned by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), a small independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government, and was dedicated by President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) on May 23, 1963.
Eagle II + East Coast Memorial
Placering: Battery Park. Downtown, Manhattan. NYC
Konstnär: Sculptor Albino Manca and the architects Gehron and Seltzer
Material: Brons
This is New York's principal World War II memorial. It is thought that this memorial, a collaboration of the sculptor Albino Manca and the architects Gehron and Seltzer, must have been Maya Lin's inspiration in designing her Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington.
Balto the dog
Placering: Central Park. Upper East Side. Manhattan. NYC
Konstnär: Frederick George Richard Roth
Material: Brons
År: 1925
Balto was dedicated to the sled dogs that led several dogsled teams through a snow-storm in the winter of 1925 in order to deliver medicines that would stop a diphtheria epidemic in Nome, Alaska. The sculpture is slightly larger than the real-life dog, and is placed on a rock outcropping on the main path leading north from the Tisch Children's Zoo. The sculpture was created by Frederick George Richard Roth, and placed in the park in 1925. Like so many other monuments in the park, it's made of bronze, and it was donated to the park by the Balto Monument Committee to the City of New York. Under the sculpture, a small plaque can be found, containing the following inscription:
Dedicated to the indomitable spirit of the sled dogs that relayed antitoxins 600 miles (970 km) over rough ice, across treacherous waters, through Arctic blizzards from Nenana to the relief of stricken Nome in the Winter of 1925. ENDURANCE FIDELITY INTELLIGENCE