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.
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.
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.
8 comments:
Not too bad for stuff sent from an
Amtrak train parked on track 14 in
NY's Penn Station (heading to DC)
Am I not correct that Grand Army Plaza is in Brooklyn ?
Willing to be corrected,
Paul
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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