Statue Across From the Museum

This statue stands on the west side of East Drive near East 84th Street, right across from the Metropolitan Museum and before reaching the Delacorte Oval. Its position in Central Park Track Club history was secured when our Coach once upon a time prescribed a workout in which this statue was a stopping point. None of these runners who have used this park for so many years have ever noticed that there was a statue. None of the learned scholars present (including all the illustrious lawyers, doctors, scientists, journalists, etc) have ever heard of the statue. When the runners got out to that point, nobody could find the statue in the dark and they had to keep running. So this picture (taken in broad daylight) serves to prove to everybody that, yes, there is a statue and that the Coach was not hallucinating --- at least as far as this matter was concerned!

(Footnote: We could have easily looked up the name of the statue, but we deliberately made it a point not to do so in order to perpetuate the club myth).