Dante Park

Dante Park is a public park in Manhattan, New York City, located in the Upper West Side neighborhood in front of Lincoln Center near Central Park.[1]

Dante Park
Statue of author and poet Dante Alighieri in Dante Park opposite the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Location	Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates	40°46′19″N 73°58′57″W
Area	0.14 acres (0.057 ha)
Created	1921
Operated by	New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Dante Park was established in 1921 by Italian-Americans in honor of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) on a triangular plot of land opposite Lincoln Center, bounded by Broadway, Columbus Avenue, and West 64th Street. Carlo Barsotti, the editor of the Italian-American newspaper Il Progresso Italo-Americano, originally wanted to erect a much more substantial statue of Dante to be placed in Times Square around 1912, but because of fundraising difficulties opted for a smaller statue completed by Ettore Ximenes to be erected at Broadway and West 64th Street in 1921, the 600th anniversary of Dante's death.[2][1] Dante Park underwent renovations in the early 1990s funded by the neighboring Radisson Empire Hotel, with the sculpture also repaired.[1]

A Dante Alighieri statue of the same casting as Dante Park is featured at Meridian Hill Park in Washington, D.C.[2]