Socrates Sculpture Park
Socrates Sculpture Park is an outdoor museum and public park where artists can create and exhibit sculptures and multi-media installations. It is located one block from the Noguchi Museum at the intersection of Broadway and Vernon Boulevard in the neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, New York City.Photo: Creative Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Noguchi Museum and Rainey Park.
Noguchi Museum
Museum
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The Noguchi Museum is a museum and sculpture garden at 32-37 Vernon Boulevard in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City, designed and created by the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi.
Blackwell Island Light
Lighthouse
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Blackwell Island Lighthouse is a stone lighthouse built by the government of New York City in 1872. It is within Lighthouse Park at the northern tip of Roosevelt Island in the East River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Astoria and Upper East Side.
Astoria
Neighborhood
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Astoria is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens. Astoria is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to four other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City to the southwest, Sunnyside to the southeast, and Woodside and East Elmhurst to the east.
Upper East Side
Photo: Alex Proimos, CC BY 2.0.
The Upper East Side of Manhattan is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of Central Park, the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.
Lenox Hill
Neighborhood
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Lenox Hill is a neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side, east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s.
Socrates Sculpture Park
- Type: Park
- Description: outdoor museum in New York City, United States
- Categories: sculpture garden, art museum, and recreation area
- Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.76849° or 40° 46′ 7″ northLongitude
-73.93702° or 73° 56′ 13″ westElevation
7 feet (2 metres)Open location code
87G8Q397+95OpenStreetMap ID
way 231847469OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Socrates Sculpture Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Socrates Sculpture Garden”
- Swedish: “Socrates Sculpture Park”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Ravenswood and Yorkville.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Cubes and Hallet’s Cove.
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