3350 x 5129 px | 28,4 x 43,4 cm | 11,2 x 17,1 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
23 avril 2009
Lieu:
Duffy Square, New York City, NY, United States
Informations supplémentaires:
"Duffy Square, also known as Father Francis D. Duffy Monument and Duffy Square or as Father Francis P. Duffy Monument and Duffy Square, is the northern triangle of Times Square in New York City. It is located between 45th and 47th Streets, Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It is a popular tourist destination. In the 18th and 19th centuries Lowes Lane connected Bloomingdale Road to Eastern Post Road. The west end of the lane was at the modern Duffy Square, and the east end at approximately the modern Third Avenue and 42nd Street. Lowes Lane and Eastern Post Road were suppressed late in the 19th century, but Bloomingdale Road survives under the name of Broadway. Duffy Square was briefly dominated by a fifty-foot, eight-ton, plaster statue entitled Purity (Defeat of Slander) by Leo Lentelli in 1909. Now the square has two statues, one in the North of the square's namesake, Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York's Fighting 69th Infantry Regiment, and one in the south depicting composer, playwright, and actor George M. Cohan by sculptor Georg J. Lober. The square and the statue of Father Duffy were dedicated by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia on May 2, 1937. The Duffy Statue and the square were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001." Wikipedia entry
