Statues In The Park (43) Stuyvesant Square Park NYC This statue by Croatian-American sculptor Ivan Mestrovic (1883–1962) honors the Czech composer Antonin Dvorak (1841–1904) who made the Stuyvesant Park neighborhood his home for a time, and helped to integrate several musical traditions. Ivan Mestrovic’s tribute to Antonin Dvorak, the renowned composer and director of the National Conservatory of Music of America, was relocated from the roof of Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall to the northeast corner of Stuyvesant Square. As part of the relocation project, the statue was repainted, and a new pedestal of green granite was designed by Czech-American architect Jan Hird Pokorny. On September 13, 1997, the effigy of Dvorak was unveiled here near the site of many of his greatest accomplishments.
Statues In The Park (44) City Of new York Museum Entrance Niche Not in a park but across the street from Central Park. Sculptures of Alexander Hamilton and DeWitt Clinton have been standing in the niches of the New York City Museum’s façade since 1941. However, in 2017, the Museum removed two 1,100 pound statues – likenesses of statesman Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) and senator, former New York City Mayor, and New York State Governor DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828) – from the façade of the building in order to send them for cleaning and conservation. These two statues were designed and executed by noted sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman (1870-1952), specifically for installation in the marble niches on either side of the main entrance to the Museum on Fifth Avenue.
