Statues and Sculptures in New York City

New York City is the largest city in the United States and one of the world's major global cities. As such, it has many large monuments, statues, sculptures, and other artistic pieces spread throughout its Five Boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, and The Bronx. For the purposes of this article, the definition a statue will be considered to be "any three dimensional or roughly three dimensional object which shape was generated by an individual or group of individuals with the specific intent to convery artistic, historic, and/or cultural meaning."

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Statue of Liberty
Frédéric Bartholdi/Gustave Eiffel
151 ft
~40 ft
~40 ft
204 tons
October 28, 1886

Liberty Island, New York Harbor
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Cleopatra's Needle
Unknown
71-77 ft
~6 ft
~6 ft
193-244 tons
January 22, 1881/1450 BC

Central Park, Manhattan
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Bellerophon Taming Pegasus
Jacques Lipchitz
29' 11" Half Scale Sculpture, " [http://www.kemperart.org/permanent/works/Lipchitz_Bellerophon.asp Bellerophon Taming Pegasus: Large Version, 1964–66] ." Retrieved on 2006-09-11.] Lipchitz Art Review, " [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CEFD9163AF934A25750C0A9669C8B63&sec=&pagewanted=2 ART REVIEW; Lipchitz, an Ocean Away From His Cubist Years] ." Retrieved on 2006-09-11.]
22' 4"
9' 10"
N/A
1964-1967

Columbia University, Manhattan
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Civic Fame
Adolph Alexander Weinman
25 ft
N/A
N/A
N/A
March 1913

Manhattan Municipal Building, Manhattan
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Statue of Atlas
Lee Lawrie
N/A
N/A
N/A
4,000 lb (1,800 kg)
1936
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On 5th avenue in Rockefeller Center, directly across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral
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