Question about the New Gold Sphere in Battery Park (I think) NYC...HELP!

[JDY]

Okay, at Battery Park in NYC, they have the original gold sphere that stood at the WTC site.

PICTURE OF ORIGNIAL SPHERE

There is another gold sphere - a new one - that is cracked or broken on one side. (I have a picture but it is on disk and I don't have a web site I can post it to.) Does anyone know the name of this statue, exactly where it is, and it purpose?

Thanks!

 

[charlie,nj]

JDY,

I'm across the river from NYC...

The only other sphere I could think of is the one at the American Museum of Natural History...in the Rose Center.

Rose Center

 

[PamOKW]

I'm not sure what other sphere you are talking about. I found this information about the one in Battery Park (from WTC). Another article gave it's name as "Sphere for Plaza Fountain" but this press release just call it "The Sphere"

The Sphere

I also found this picture

Sphere

 

[JDY]

charlie,nj

Thanks, but that's not it. This one is outside, about 15 feet across (that's a pure guesstimation), gold, and 'broken' or 'craked' on one side.

 

[charlie,nj]

ok..JDY

here's the NYC Parks/Recreation site ..it has descriptions and pictures of all the monuments ..about 300...

Parks/Recreation NYC

Hey here is another one I found:

 

[Arabella Figg 2003]

Let's try to pinpoint the locltion, ok? Where in Battery Park was this monument? Or was in actually outside the park, like at bowling Green or in front of the Holocaust Museum?

 

[JDY]

I'm not positive that it is in Battery Park. It's a picture that some of my students took last week. We want to use it in the yearbook but I need to identify the image.

It looks like a 'new' version of the Sphere that stood in the Plaza Fountain at the World Trade Center.

PM me and I'll email the picture to you if you would like to see it.

 

[Arabella Figg 2003]

You're right, it does look a lot like the sphere. But it's not the sphere, it's something similar. The sphere is on a pedestal, the image you sent me doesn't have a pedestal. I'm trying to place it by looking at the buildings in its refelction. Interesting.

 

[Arabella Figg 2003]

By any chance, did you visit the United Nations during your stay in NY?

 

[JDY]

THAT's IT

Thank you so much! It was at the UN!

 

[Arabella Figg 2003]

Glad I could help. Your students photographed it from a different angle than this picture was taken, but I think what you see in the reflection in your version is the UN building.

 

[Arabella Figg 2003]

You can see the similarities though.

 

[charlie,nj]

nice work Arabella Figg 2003!

Hey JDY you should make this a weeky thread...a "find the monument thread".... I had fun looking on the internet for this weeks monument...