“Atlas” at Rockefeller Center
“That great giant, Atlas, whose shoulders bear the circling sky.” —from “Metamorphoses,” A.D. 8, by Ovid Directly across Fifth Avenue from the seat of the archbishop of the Archdiocese of […]
Category Archives: Art
A Bit of Old Spain in Greenwich Village
“Many Spanish immigrants disembarked in New York docks during the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. The largest Spanish enclave in New York was referred to as Little Spain. This colony extended […]
The Marquis de Lafayette in Union Square
“As soon as I heard of American independence, my heart was enlisted.” — Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), this quote is chiseled on the pedestal for the bronze figure of the […]
The Gay Liberation Monument
“… to be loving and caring, and show the affection that is the hallmark of gay people … and it had to have equal representation of men and women.” —Requirements […]
Father Duffy in Times Square
“I am a very Irish, very Catholic, very American person, if anybody challenges my convictions. But normally and let alone, I am just plain human.” —from “Father Duffy’s Story,” the […]
The San Remo Apartments
“A residential skyscraper in classical garb, the San Remo epitomizes Roth’s ability to combine the traditional with the modern, an urbane amalgam of luxury and convenience, decorum and drama.” —praise […]
The James Fountain, its Maternal Qualities
You may boast of your brandy And wine as you please, Gin, cider and the rest, Cold water transcends them In all degrees. It is good—it is better—’tis best. —a […]
George Washington’s First Inauguration
“Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the […]
Happy Birthday, Augustus Saint-Gaudens
“My own delay I excuse on the ground that a sculptor’s work endures for so long that it is next to a crime for him to neglect to do everything […]
Library Portraits of George Washington
“I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter’s pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck…no dray moves more readily to the Thrill, than I do to […]
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