Dante Park

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1901-1917 Broadway, New York, NY 10023, USA

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N40° 46' 19" W73° 58' 57"   (40.771944444444, -73.9825) Start navigation »

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Dante Park or Dante Square is a park in front of Lincoln Center in New York City, New York.
The park was established by Italian-Americans in honor of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Carlo Barsotti, editor of the paper Il Progresso Italo-Americano, originally wanted to gather funds for a much more substantial statue to be placed in Times Square around 1912. Because of fundraising difficulties, by 1921, the 600th anniversary of Dante's death, a smaller statue was completed by Ettore Ximenes and placed in the location at Broadway at West 64th Street.
A statue of the same casting is featured at Meridian Hill Park in Washington, DC.

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