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Coordinates. 40°46′14″N 73°58′21″W / . 40.7705°N 73.9725°W. / 40.7705; -73.9725. The Women's Rights Pioneers Monument is a sculpture by Meredith Bergmann. It was installed in Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, on August 26 ( Women's Equality Day ), 2020. [1] [2] The sculpture is located at the northwest corner of ...
Description and history. The Untermyer Fountain features a bronze cast of Walter Schott's Three Dancing Maidens, completed in Germany prior to 1910. Named after American lawyer and civic leader Samuel Untermyer, the fountain was donated to the park by his children, Irwin Untermyer, Alvin Untermyer, and Irene Richter, following his death in 1940.
Three Dancing Maidens ( German: Drei tanzende Mädchen) is a nymph fountain (Nymphenbrunnen) sculpture by Walter Schott. There are three full-size versions or castings of the bronze sculpture. One is known as the Untermyer Fountain in Central Park in New York City, the second one is in Antwerp ’s Den Brandt Park, and the third one is in the ...
About 7,500 women worked in Bletchley Park, the central site for British cryptanalysts during World War II.Women constituted roughly 75% of the workforce there. [1] While women were overwhelmingly under-represented in high-level work such as cryptanalysis, they were employed in large numbers in other important areas, including as operators of cryptographic and communications machinery ...
The plaza shortly after its 2010 completion. Frederick Douglass Circle is a traffic circle located at the northwest corner of Central Park at the intersection of Eighth Avenue (Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Central Park West) and 110th Street (Cathedral Parkway and Central Park North) in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
The Puerto Rican Day Parade, an annual event held on the second Sunday in June, [ 1] marches down Fifth Avenue from 44th Street to 79th Street, passing by Central Park along the way. The temperature on June 11 was over 90 °F (32 °C). Parade observers noted the smell of marijuana in the air, and some reported that paraders were smoking in full ...
Lawsuit by five of the wrongly convicted against New York State; settled for $3.9 million. The Central Park jogger case (sometimes termed the Central Park Five case) was a criminal case concerning the assault and rape of Trisha Meili, a woman in Central Park in Manhattan, New York, on April 19, 1989. [ 1][ 2] On the night of the attack, dozens ...
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