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School's out for summer! Artist Milo Mottola held a contest for local elementary school kids to make drawings of their favorite animals to help him design the carousel. 36 submissions were selected amongst thousands for the whimsical carousel animals./ "Totally Kid Carousel" by Milo Mottola (1997), located in Riverbank State Park, 145th Street and Riverside Drive, Manhattan. @nycparks @percentforartnyc

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"A woman is like a teabag; you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water." — Eleanor Roosevelt / "Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial" (1996) by Penelope Jencks, located in Riverside Park, 72nd Street and Riverside Drive, Manhattan, photograph by the artist. @nycparks

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It's Westminster Week! / "Balto" (1925) by Frederick George Richard Roth, located in Central Park, Fifth Avenue and East 67th Street, Manhattan, photograph by A.L. Schuszler. @nycparks @centralparknyc 

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LGBTQ artist Scott Burton designed entryway lights, steel benches, wind vanes and wooden ottomans to frame the refurbished Sheepshead Bay fishing piers. The piers were completed in 1994, five years after Burton passed away due to complications from AIDS / "Design Team Project" (1994) by Scott Burton located in Sheepshead Bay Piers, Brooklyn. @percentforartnyc

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Hippopotamus Fountain (1993) by Bob Cassilly, located in Riverside Park, 91st Street and Riverside Drive, Manhattan. @nycparks

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Beach time! / "Rockaway Mosaic" (1981) by Ann Evans and Mary Nell Hawke, located in Rockaway Beach, Ocean Promenade and Beach 116th Street, Queens. @nycparks

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"Garment Worker" by Judith Weller (1984), located in Seventh Avenue and 39th Street, Manhattan, photograph by Irene B. Bayer.

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Happy Valentine's Day! / "Cactus Couple" (1985) by Thea Tewi, located on the roof of The Arsenal in Central Park, Manhattan, photograph by Calvin Wilson. @nycparks @centralparknyc

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Happy Earth Day! / Growth (1985) by Jorge Luis Rodriguez, located in Harlem Art Park, East 120th Street & Sylvan Place, Manhattan. @nycparks

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Artist Jo Davidson depicted avant-garde writer Gertrude Stein as a modern day Buddha. Stein posed for Davidson in 1920 in her famed Paris apartment where she welcomed Picasso, Matisse, and Hemingway. Thrilled with her portrait, Stein reciprocated with a word painting of Davidson in Vanity Fair. / Gertrude Stein (1992) by Jo Davidson, located in Bryant Park, Manhattan. @nycparks

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Triumph of the Human Spirit (1993) by Lorenzo Pace is a 50-foot-tall monument to enslaved African-Americans sited near a rediscovered Colonial-era African-American burial ground in Foley Square, Manhattan. @nycparks

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"If you look the right way, you can see the whole world is a garden."  —Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden / Burnett Memorial Fountain (1936) by Bessie Potter Vonnoh, located in Conservatory Garden, Central Park, Fifth Avenue and 105th Street, Manhattan, photograph by Walter Dufresne. @nycparks @centralparknyc

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Isidor Straus, co-founder of Macy's, and his wife, Ida, were victims of the Titanic disaster on April 15, 1912. / Isidor and Ida Straus (1915) by Augustus Lukeman, located in Straus Park, Broadway at 106th Street, Manhattan.

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Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave who became a prominent abolitionist, progressive reformer, statesmen, author and orator. / "Frederick Douglass Memorial" (2011) by Gabriel Koren, site and foundation by Algernon Miller, Frederick Douglass Circle at 110th Street and Central Park North, Manhattan. @nycparks @centralparknyc

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Happy President’s Day! / “Model for Equestrian Statue of General Ulysses S. Grant” (1928) by Paul Manship, located in General Grant National Memorial Visitor Center, Riverside Park, Riverside Drive and West 122nd Street, Manhattan. @nycparks @nationalparksusa

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Happy Birthday President Lincoln! / "Abraham Lincoln" (1870) by Henry Kirke Brown, located in Union Square, Manhattan. @nycparks