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NBC will introduce a new superhero this month with the premiere of the drama series "The Cape," and in anticipation of the show's two-hour premiere on Sunday, January 9 (9-11 p.m. ET), NBC will partner with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation for a unique campaign to highlight historic statues all over the city.
"The Cape" will later move to its regular time slot on Mondays (9-10 p.m. ET) starting January 17.
Beginning Wednesday, January 5 through Sunday, January 9, 30 of New York City's historic statues will be outfitted with custom capes along with a plaque describing each hero's greatest achievement and the similarities between the character traits of the star of "The Cape" Vince Faraday (David Lyons).
Locations Include:
Manhattan
Harlem
Harriet Tubman, by Alison Saar, 2008, West 122nd Street, St. Nicholas Avenue and Frederick Douglass Boulevard
Central Park
Frederick Douglass, by Gabriel Koren, 2010, Central Park West, Central Park North, and Frederick Douglass Boulevard
William Shakespeare, by John Quincy Adams, 1872, Mid-Park at East Drive and 66th Street
Sir Walter Scott, by Sir John Steell, 1872, Literary Walk in Central Park, Mid-Park at East Drive and 66th Street
Robert Burns, by Sir John Steell, 1880, Literary Walk in Central Park, Mid-Park at East Drive and 66th Street
Central Park / Midtown
General Jose Marti, by Anna Hyatt Huntington, 1965, 59th Street and 6th Avenue
Jose de San Martin, by Louis Joseph Daumas, 1862, 59th Street and 6th Avenue
Simon Bolivar, by Sally James Farnham, 1921, 59th Street and 6th Avenue
Upper West Side
Guiseppe Verdi, by Pasquale Civiletti, 1906, Verdi Square, 72nd Street and Columbus
Dante Alighiere, by Ettore Ximenes, 1921, Dante Square, Broadway and 63rd Street
Eleanor Roosevelt, by Penelope Jencks, 1996, Riverside Park, Riverside Drive at 72nd Street
Times Square
George Cohan, by Georg John Lober, 1959, Father Duffy Square/Times Square
Father Duffy, by Charles Keck, 1937, Father Duffy Square / Times Square
Bryant Park
José Bonifacio de Andrada, by Jose Otavio Correia Lima, 1955, 6th Avenue and 40st/41nd Streets
Benito Juarez, by Moises Cabrera Orozco, 2004, 6th Avenue and 41st/42nd Streets
Herald Square
Horace Greeley, by Alexander Doyle, 1894, Herald Square
Madison Square Park
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1881
William Henry Seward, by Randolph Rogers, 1876
Union Square Park
George Washington, by Henry Kirke Brown, 1856
Abraham Lincoln, by Henry Kirke Brown, 1870
Marquis de Lafayette, by Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, 1876
West Village
General William Sheridan, by Joseph Pollia, 1936, Sheridan Square
Fiorello La Guardia, by Neil Estern, 1994, La Guardia Gardens, La Guardia Place
Downtown
John Ericsson, by Jonathan Scott Hartley, 1903, Battery Park
Confucius, by Liu Shih, 1976, Confucius Plaza at Bowery @ Division Street
Benjamin Franklin, by Ernst Plassman, 1872, Printing House Square, Park Row
Brooklyn
Christopher Columbus, by Emma Stebbins, 1860s, in front of Borough Hall, Court Street and Montague Street, Brooklyn Heights
General Edward Fowler, by Henry Baerer, 1902, Lafayette Avenue, Fulton Street, South Elliott Place, Ft. Greene
James Stranahan, by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1891, Grand Army Plaza, Prospect Park
George Washington at Valley Forge, by Henry Mervin Shrady, 1906, Continental Army Plaza, at entrance of the Williamsburg Bridge
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