Madison Square Park, NYC

View of Madison Square Park from Flatiron Building Broadway and East 23rd Street, Manhattan. Photographer Rizzuto, Angelo (1906-1967). Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The bronze statue of William Henry Seward, dedicated on September 27, 1876, is in the foreground. The New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division is in the background, on the northeast corner of 25th Street. It was completed in 1899. The old Hotel Bartholdi, opened in 1885 at 956 Broadway, on the southeast corner of East 23rd Street, is on the right.

Today, Madison Square Park is a playground, an open-air museum, a performance venue and an arboretum surrounded by skyscrapers and landmark architecture.