Category: Gargoyles
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NY- Biblical Reliefs in Chelsea
Chelsea is full of sculpted reliefs and gargoyles.
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NY- Eurpoean Sculpture Court at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
There are so many rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art that you can’t possibly see them all in one day, but if you try, the European Sculpture Court is a good place for a caffeine recharge.
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NY- Gargoyles at the Synod House- St John Divine
If you are looking for examples of great Gothic gargoyles than make sure you walk the grounds of St John Divine. The Synod House doorway is covered in them.
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NY- Easter Sunday at Saint Thomas Episcopal Church
St Thomas Episcopal Church on Fifth Avenue
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NY- Great Glazed tiles on West End Avenue
The building at 243 West End Avenue at 71st Street has just gone through a major tile cleaning and and tuck pointing. It has these wonderful ceramic tiles inlaid around the windows on the first and second floors as well as ornaments covering the rest of the building. It is a fallout shelter to boost,…
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NY- Attention Gargoyle Hunters, CCNY is covered in them
City College of New York at 137th and Amsterdam. One block west of the #1 subway stop has a treasure trove of gargoyles adorning their circa 1908 Gothic campus buildings. They look like they were made by the same artisan’s who sculpted the Chicken Soup Gargoyles on 11oth Street, no?
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NY- The Chicken Soup Story- Gargoyles on West 110th
The builder of the Apartments at 527 West 110th street adorned the exterior with gargoyles depicting the Story Of Chicken Soup. If you look closely you can see one has the recipe, one the bowl, another the chicken, while a fourth enjoys the soup. It is pretty clever.
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NY- Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument- Riverside Park
In 1897 New York City held a design competition for a memorial to the soldiers and sailors from New York State killed in the Civil War. The brothers Charles and Arthur Stoughton won with their design, “Temple of Fame.†Paul E. M. DuBoy, who also planned the Ansonia Hotel, designed the sculptures in and around…
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NY- James Johnson’s Freedom of Movement at W 70th Pier
I was walking down Columbus avenue the other day when I saw this group of people wheeling a giant metallic shark fin down the middle of 72nd Street. Never without my camera I grabbed it out of my backpack and powered up for a once in a lifetime shot only to find that I left…
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NY- The Real World By Tom Otterness
One of the highlights of the Hudson River Park is Tom Otterness’ “The Real World”, a miniature land of bronze statues commissioned by The Battery Park Authority and Governor Mario Cuomo. Whether you are a kid or an adult you will have fun finding all the little people going about they days work in search…
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NY- Shops and Signs in the Wall Street Area
With the conversion of many of the old financial houses to luxury condos, the services and shops are following the crowds down to this old New York City Neighborhood.
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NY- The Statues and Sculptures in City Hall Park
Why go to a museum to see statues when City Hall Park is full of them?