Travel Reference
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Edwin Booth as Hamlet
ThefounderofthePlayersClubisshowninhismostfamousrole,abouttogiveHam-
let's soliloquy. The 1917 statue faces his former house.
• Gramercy Park
Fantasy Fountain
Greg Wyatt's 1983 smiling sun and moon flanked by dancing giraffes, from whose
mouths water flows in warm weather.
• Southeast corner of Gramercy Park
Worth Monument
An 1850s obelisk marks the grave of the only public figure buried under the streets
of Manhattan, General Worth, hero of the Mexican Wars.
• Traffic Island, 23rd St & Broadway
Farragut Monument
This 1880 memorial to a naval hero established Augustus Saint-Gaudens as the na-
tion's foremost sculptor; Stanford White designed the base.
• Madison Square
Chester Alan Arthur
Arthurbecamethe21stPresidentwhenJamesGarfieldwasassassinated.GeorgeEd-
win Bissell sculpted him in 1898, standing in front of an elaborate chair.
• Madison Square
