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Carl Schurz, Again

Been laid up with a cold all week (as have all my family) and it’s too cold to go outside anyway so no new pictures.

However, in other news, some of you may remember when my picture of the Carl Schurz statue on Morningside Heights was used in a German tribute to him, reported earlier in these pages.

Now, I’m happy to report, especially to French and German readers, that it will appear (for a few seconds) in a television documentary, “Der Traum von der Neuen Welt” or “Le rêve du nouveau monde,” this April 22 at 20:15 (Central European Time, UTC+1) on ARTE (current plan – it could change).

Let me know how it looks!

116th St and Morningside Drive, New York
116th St and Morningside Drive, New York

Corralled

Vesey St and West Broadway, New York
Vesey St and West Broadway, New York

LOWER MANHATTAN—The so-called horse soldier statue has ridden into lower Manhattan.

The 16-foot, 5,000-pound bronze sculpture “De Opresso Liber” — which depicts a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces on horseback leading the invasion into Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks — was unveiled Friday at its new home in front of the World Trade Center PATH station.  read more…

Sorrow of ’39

This looked like it might be significant – perhaps something to do with the sadness of WWII? So we asked a passing Park Ranger. Alas, not. The concrete post that says 1939 is simply a property boundary marker. The statue is by an artist whose work FDR saw at the Colombian Exhibition and liked so he ordered a piece from the artist. When this sculpture arrived, he hated it and banished it to the farthest reaches of his property.

Hyde Park, New York
Hyde Park, New York