Where's Lucy in Manhattan?

Answer:  In front of the Intrepid, an aircraft carrier which was built during World War II.

Answer:  In front of the Dairy/Vistor Center in Central Park.  In the 1870s, one of the critical needs of children was for fresh milk.  A series of scandals and cholera outbreaks placed the city's dairy production under a cloud of suspicion.  The city built the dairy to provide a ready supply of fresh milk when families travelled to the park.

Answer:  In front of the Neue Gallery (5th Ave. and 86th St.).  The building, a designated landmark, was built in 1914, commission by industrialist William Starr Miller.  Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt III bought the house in 1944.  Upon her death in 1953, the house was occupied YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.  In the 1990s, after the Institute has moved to a new location, the house stood vacant and in disrepair.  Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky purchased it for the museum in 1994.  In 2006, Lauder bought a famous Klimt painting, the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. The press reported the price for the Klimt at US$135 million, which would make it at that time the most expensive painting ever sold.

Answer:  In front of the Romeo and Juliet Statue, located outside of the Delacorte Theater at the edge of the Great Lawn in Central Park.

Where's Lucy in NYC?

Answer:  At Belvedere Castle, which sits atop Vista Rock, the second highest natural elevation in Central Park.  Belvedere Castle acts as a weather station, providing the temperature readings for Central Park.




Answer:  Sitting on the steps of the NY Public Library with Patience, one of two lions, in the background.  The other lion, on the north side of the steps, is called Fortitude.  Theses names came in the 1930s by Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia for the qualities New Yorkers would need to survive the Great Depression.

Answer:  On 5th Avenue and 57th St. with Tiffany's in the background.  The Atlas Clock has adorned Tiffany's facade since 1853, even though the store has moved locations several times.

Answer:  In front of a sculpture that is in front of the Alfred E. Smith School on 97th St. between Columbus and Amsterdam.  Al Smith was governor of New York four times over, elected in 1919, 1922, 1924 and 1926.  He was also instrumental in getting the Empire State Building built at the onset of the Great Depression.

Where's Lucy with a cameo by Cinnamon

Answer: In the Ramble, a 38-acre artificially created "wild" part of Central Park. The Ramble was on of the first parts of Central Park to be built.

Answer: In front of the Plaza, which was originally built in 1900 and then rebuilt in 1907 for $12.5 million. The Beatles stayed at the Plaza during their first visit to the United States in February 1964. The Plaza made it major movie debut in the 1959 film North by Northwest.

Answer: In front of the Dakota, which was designed by the same architects as those for the Plaza. The building was completed in 1884. John Lennon made the Dakota his home starting in 1973. Several movies, including Rosemary's Baby and Vanilla Sky, use the exterior of the building. The interior is off limits.

Answer: The Peace Fountain in the Children's Garden next to St. John the Divine. It depicts the struggle of good and evil.

Where's Lucy?

Answer: On the new water fountain at Lincoln Center with the Metropolitan Opera House in the background. The new water fountain "dances" at times.

Answer: In front of Cleopatra's Needle (also known as the Obelisk) behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is one of trio, the others are in Paris and London. Incidentally, the needles have no particular connection with Queen Cleopatra, and were already over a thousand years old in her lifetime.

Answer: At the Three Bears Statue in the playground at the south side of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (5th Ave. and 79th St.).

Answer: At the Honey Bear Statue (also known as the Dancing Bear) at the northern entrance to the Central Park Zoo.


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Name that Building

Answer: At the Time Warner Center (Columbus Circle, between 58th and 60th on Broadway). Construction began in November 2000, following the demolition of the Coliseum. The building was completed in 2003.

Answer: At the Citigroup Center (53d St. between Lexington and Third Aves). The Building stands out because of the diagonal roof, slanted as if for a solar collector. The idea was eventually dropped because the positioning of the angled roof meant that the solar panels would not face the sun directly.

Answer: The Hearst Tower (between 56th and 57th Sts. on 8th Ave.). This is the first green building completed in New York City -- the floor of the atruim is paved with heat conductive limestone; polyethylene tubing is embedded under the floor and filled with water for cooling in the summer and heating in the winter; rain collected on the roof is stored in a tank in the basement for use in the cooling system, to irrigate plants and for the water sculpture in the main lobby; and the building was constructed using 80% recycled steel.

Answer: Book Building or Solow Building (9 W. 57th St. -- also named for a former tenant, the shoe company Nine West). This building, with its sloping facade, is admired by some for its beauty and criticized by others because the sloping facade exposes scars in the sides of neighboring buildings. To counter the critics, the builders put in the large second story gutter and added the red sculpture to draw attention away from the exposed scars. According to recent newspaper articles, the building is nearly half empty because Bank of America moved to its new building and Solow is asking for boom era prices.

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Where's Lucy?

Answer: With the Duckling, listening to Hans Christian Andersen reading one of his stories. The statue is in Central Park on the west side of the Conservatory Waters (with the toy boats) close to 73d St. near 5th Ave.




Answer: In front of the Mother Goose statue at the entrance to Central Park Summer Stage at Rumsey Field. Mother Goose is flying on the back of a goose. Little Jack Horner, Humpty Dumpty and Little Bo Peep are sculpted on the sides of the statue.

Answer: At the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (112th St. and Amsterdam Ave.). It is also known as St. John the Unfinished because it is incomplete even though it was started in 1892.

Answer: At the Central Synagogue (Lexington Ave. and 55th St.). It is among the oldest synagogue buildings still standing in the United States. It was restored to the original style after a fire in August 1998. The Central Synagogue has been designated a National Historic Landmark.


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Where's Lucy with a cameo by Stevie

Answer: At the Balto Sculpture in Central Park. Balto was an Alaskan Malamute who braved fierce Artic weather to deliver a badly needed antitoxin to save a community from a diptheria epidemic. Balto later visited New York to see his statue dedicated.

Answer: On 5th Ave. (70th St.) with the Frick in the background. Henry Clay Frick was an American industrialist involved in maufacturing coke for use in steel manufacturing. He joined with Andrew Carnegie to form a company that was the predecessor to US steel. In 1910, Frick built the mansion that houses his art collection.

Answer: In front of the Love Sculpture at 55th St. and 6th Ave. The artist, Robert Indiana, orignally designed the image as a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in 1964. Versions of the sculpture exist all over the world.

Answer: In front of the Love Sculpture at 535 Madison Ave. (54th St.).

Where's Lucy with a cameo by Bella and Linus

Answer: At the Great Lawn in Central Park. The Great Lawn was not part of the original plan of the park, but was the site of a reservoir. The reservoir was made obsolete by the construction of a new water tunnel. Grass was eventually planted to create the Great Lawn. The installment of backstops for baseball was controversial, but put in by the city in the 1950s.

Answer: At the plaza in front of 1251 Avenue of the Americas (between 50th and 49th Sts). Radio City is in the background.

Answer: At the square in front of the Plaza Hotel (5th Ave. between Central Park South and 58th St.) In the background is the men's Bergdorf Goodman store.

Answer: At the Theodore Roosevelt Park behind the American Museum of Natural History. In 2003, Mayor Bloomberg unveiled the Nobel Monument. The site was chosen based on Theodore Roosevelt's distinction as the first US president to win a Nobel Prize (for peace). The Nobel Monument lists the names of US winners of the Nobel Prize.