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.
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