LGBTQ artist Scott Burton designed entryway lights, steel benches, wind vanes and wooden ottomans to frame the refurbished Sheepshead Bay fishing piers. The piers were completed in 1994, five years after Burton passed away due to complications from AIDS / "Design Team Project" (1994) by Scott Burton located in Sheepshead Bay Piers, Brooklyn. @percentforartnyc

Hippopotamus Fountain (1993) by Bob Cassilly, located in Riverside Park, 91st Street and Riverside Drive, Manhattan. @nycparks

Beach time! / "Rockaway Mosaic" (1981) by Ann Evans and Mary Nell Hawke, located in Rockaway Beach, Ocean Promenade and Beach 116th Street, Queens. @nycparks

School's out for summer! Artist Milo Mottola held a contest for local elementary school kids to make drawings of their favorite animals to help him design the carousel. 36 submissions were selected amongst thousands for the whimsical carousel animals./ "Totally Kid Carousel" by Milo Mottola (1997), located in Riverbank State Park, 145th Street and Riverside Drive, Manhattan. @nycparks @percentforartnyc

Fleet Week, now in its 31st year, is a week-long celebration to honor the United States Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps. / American Merchant Mariners' Memorial (1991) by Marisol Escobar, located in Battery Park, Manhattan. @nycparks

Happy Earth Day! / Growth (1985) by Jorge Luis Rodriguez, located in Harlem Art Park, East 120th Street & Sylvan Place, Manhattan. @nycparks

Isidor Straus, co-founder of Macy's, and his wife, Ida, were victims of the Titanic disaster on April 15, 1912. / Isidor and Ida Straus (1915) by Augustus Lukeman, located in Straus Park, Broadway at 106th Street, Manhattan.

"If you look the right way, you can see the whole world is a garden."  —Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden / Burnett Memorial Fountain (1936) by Bessie Potter Vonnoh, located in Conservatory Garden, Central Park, Fifth Avenue and 105th Street, Manhattan, photograph by Walter Dufresne. @nycparks @centralparknyc

"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust." –J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan / Peter Pan (1975) by Charles A. Hafner, located in Charles Schurz Park, East End Avenue and 86th Street, Manhattan. @nycparks

Did you remember to spring forward? / Peace Clock (2016) by Lina Viste Grønli, located in Trygve Lie Plaza, First Avenue between 41st Street and 42nd Street, Manhattan. @nycparks

Artist Jo Davidson depicted avant-garde writer Gertrude Stein as a modern day Buddha. Stein posed for Davidson in 1920 in her famed Paris apartment where she welcomed Picasso, Matisse, and Hemingway. Thrilled with her portrait, Stein reciprocated with a word painting of Davidson in Vanity Fair. / Gertrude Stein (1992) by Jo Davidson, located in Bryant Park, Manhattan. @nycparks

"A woman is like a teabag; you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water." — Eleanor Roosevelt / "Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial" (1996) by Penelope Jencks, located in Riverside Park, 72nd Street and Riverside Drive, Manhattan, photograph by the artist. @nycparks

Triumph of the Human Spirit (1993) by Lorenzo Pace is a 50-foot-tall monument to enslaved African-Americans sited near a rediscovered Colonial-era African-American burial ground in Foley Square, Manhattan. @nycparks

“I am an invisible man…I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me” – Ralph Ellison, 1952, Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison Memorial (2003) by Elizabeth Catlett, located in 150th Street and Riverside Drive, Manhattan. 

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"Duke Ellington" (1997) by Robert Graham, located in Duke Ellington Circle, 110th Street and Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. @nycparks @centralparknyc

Happy President’s Day! / “Model for Equestrian Statue of General Ulysses S. Grant” (1928) by Paul Manship, located in General Grant National Memorial Visitor Center, Riverside Park, Riverside Drive and West 122nd Street, Manhattan. @nycparks @nationalparksusa

Happy Valentine's Day! / "Cactus Couple" (1985) by Thea Tewi, located on the roof of The Arsenal in Central Park, Manhattan, photograph by Calvin Wilson. @nycparks @centralparknyc