African-Americans have made great contributions to NYC, and Parks has honored them through public art. These sculptures pay tribute to African-Americans and represent the African-American experience.
NYC Parks: Check out the "Little Dances" sculpture by Howard McCalebb.This abstract sculpture honors jazz legend Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, who lived nearby in a modest home from 1943 until his death in 1971.
202 Eastern Pkwy (Washington & Classon Ave), Brooklyn, NY
Parque · Crown Heights · 8 dicas e avaliações
NYC Parks: Come see the sculpture honoring the physicist and austronaut Dr. Ronald McNair, who died in the aboard the Challenger space shuttle when it exploded in 1986.
W 150th St & Bradhurst Ave (at 145th Street), Nova Iorque, NY
Parque · Central Harlem · 20 dicas e avaliações
NYC Parks: See the sculpture of Jackie Robinson by Inge Hardison. This sculptural bust honors the athlete who in 1947 broke the "color barrier" in Major League Baseball, when he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Great Lakes Ct (Dwight Eisenhower Promenade), Queens, NY
Parque · Flushing Meadows-Corona Park · 88 dicas e avaliações
NYC Parks: See the sculpture "Soul in Flight" by Eric Fishl. This sculpture on the grounds of the United States Tennis Center commemorates tennis star and humanitarian Arthur Ashe.
NYC Parks: See the sculpture that commemorates Duke Ellington. This monumental piece depicts the composer, pianist and bandleader standing beside a concert grand, supported by nine latter-day caryatid figures.
Parque · Downtown Manhattan · 15 dicas e avaliações
NYC Parks: See one of the Foley Square Historical Medallions, "Negro Burial Ground." This bronze medallion is one of five that commemorate various epochs in the life of Foley Square and its environs.
NYC Parks: See the sculpture "Peter and Willie" by Otto Neals. This playful piece features the bronze figures of a boy reading a book with his dog on a contoured basalt boulder.
Parque · Downtown Manhattan · 15 dicas e avaliações
NYC Parks: Check out the "Triumph of the Human Spirit" sculpture. Set at the center of a fountain, and rising nearly 50 feet, this black granite abstract monument is derived from antelope forms of Bambaran art.
NYC Parks: See the "Harlem Hybrid" sculpted by Richard Howe Hunt. This 5,500-pound abstract piece is an assemblage of bronze sections of irregular shapes in a montage that suggests a natural outcropping
2180 1st Ave (btwn E 111th & E 114th St), Nova Iorque, NY
Parque · East Harlem · 24 dicas e avaliações
NYC Parks: See the sculpture "Tomorrow's Wind" by Melvin Edwards. The abstract welded steel piece featuring a polished disc and crescent-like shape are indicative of the sculptor's large-scale public art pieces.
NYC Parks: See the "Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese" sculpture, inspired by the friendship of two Brooklyn Dodger baseball players who helped advance integration in the Major Leagues.