Saturday, November 17, 2012

From Chic Silber #2


"Grand Army Plaza"

8 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Not too bad for stuff sent from an

Amtrak train parked on track 14 in

NY's Penn Station (heading to DC)

Anonymous said...

Am I not correct that Grand Army Plaza is in Brooklyn ?

Willing to be corrected,

Paul

Anonymous said...

OH Meadow muffins. There are two Grand Army Plazas, at least...
one in Manhattan with Sherman and another in Brooklyn.

C'est La Guerre,

Paul

Chic Silber said...


There may 2 Paul

Grand Army Plaza is the gateway to
Central Park. Of the four corners
of Central Park, it’s the only one
that’s officially part of the
Park’s 843-acre landscape. It is
actually two plazas. Central Park
South bisects it into two
semicircles – a split design
inspired by Paris’ famed Place de
la Concorde.

Chic Silber said...


Yup there's another 1 in Brooklyn

Grand Army Plaza is formed by the
intersection of Flatbush Avenue,
Eastern Parkway, Prospect Park
West and other streets.

Grand Army Plaza provides the
grandest of park entryways in New
York City’s answer to the Arc de
Triomphe in Paris. Conceived as a
memorial to the defenders of the
Union in the Civil War, the
elaborately carved Arch is also a
base for a series of inspired
bronze sculpture groupings that
soar over the Plaza.

Chic Silber said...


My partner in crime added address

This statue is in Berlin

The 1 at the SouthEast corner of

Central Park shares the pedestal

with General Sherman on a horse

Chic Silber said...


I sent this image by mistake as I

assumed (wrong) that if you see 1

Victory you'd have seen them all

St Gaudens designed many versions

including 1 holding a swastika

Anonymous said...

SOB, NOT you Chic, just an exclamation. I thought this looked familiar/ I and 4 Army buddies spent a week in Berlin in '67. This is the Siegessoule (or something like that, it has been 45years.) and back then you could go to the top and see beautiful vuews of, then, mostly West Berlin.

Best Paul