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Is it a Wave Hill turtle?
Bethesda fountain?
I'm guessing the Central Park Children's Zoo. This is without having done the puzzle...can somebody describe the image to me, please?
Dolph is the warmest.
looking out at Kykuit?
Now that's a place where I'd like to be...but WWI? remains in the five boroughs.
If Wave Hill was warm, how about the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum and Gardens
Not quite as warm!
I guess we should dispense with the obvious, were you at the Bronx Zoo?
You bet your sweet ass I was!
To be more specific, I was at the Paul J. Rainey Memorial Gateway of the Bronx Zoo--the Pelham Parkway entryway, across from the New York Botanical Garden.
According to Public Art in the Bronx, the gateway, designed in 1926 by Paul Manship and installed in 1934, is the zoo's "best known sculpture."
From the website: "Made of bronze that over the years has turned a light sea green, the gates are a fantastic structure with two openings surmounted by openwork lunettes and bounded by tree like forms. Around the whole, some 22 different animals, including some former Zoo celebrities--Buster the giant Galapagos tortoise, Jimmy the Shoe bill stork, and Sultan the African lion--are used as decorative motifs."
I have a dim, perhaps faulty, recollection of the Buster figure being ranked as one a beloved Big Apple icon, like the lions at the main branch of the public library. Buster, who has some sort of giant plant sprouting out of his shell, still seems to be an object of some affection--his head, like Balto in Central Park and the genitalia of the Botero figures at the new Time Warner Center, appears "polished" by passerby petting. Yet his celebrity status has certainly diminished over the decades.
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