Whisper Bench
Whisper Bench is a memorial in Manhattan, New York. Whisper Bench is situated nearby to Shakespeare garden, as well as near the theater building Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Memorial
- Also known as: “Charles B. Stover Memorial Bench”
- Inscription: “Charles B. Stover 1861 (...) 1929 Founder of outdoor playgrounds Who devoted his life to public service In grateful Recognition 1936”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Central Park and American Museum of Natural History.
Central Park
Photo: Ed Yourdon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
A vast green swath of open space in the heart of Manhattan, Central Park is a district in its own right, neatly separating the Upper East Side from the Upper West Side, stretching from Midtown at the southern end to Harlem at the north.
American Museum of Natural History
Museum
Photo: Gigi alt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The American Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 21 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library. American Museum of Natural History is situated 1,300 feet west of Whisper Bench.
Belvedere Castle
Public building
Photo: Stig Nygaard, CC BY 2.0.
Belvedere Castle is a folly in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. It contains exhibit rooms, an observation deck, and since 1919 has housed Central Park’s official weather station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Upper West Side and Upper East Side.
Upper West Side
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Upper West Side covers a large area in upper Manhattan bounded by 59th Street on the south, 125th Street on the north, the Hudson River on the west, and Central Park and Morningside Park on 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.
Lincoln Square
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lincoln Square is the name of both a square and the surrounding neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Lincoln Square is centered on the intersection of Broadway and Columbus Avenue, between West 65th and 66th streets.
Whisper Bench
- Category: historic site
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.77987° or 40° 46′ 48″ northLongitude
-73.96965° or 73° 58′ 11″ westInception
1936Open location code
87G8Q2HJ+W4OpenStreetMap ID
node 4290878206OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=benchOpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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Highlights include Shakespeare garden and Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre.
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