Serial killer Dr Harold Shipman (suspected of killing 200+ patients)

[wiggins]

no, John Finlay Walk is further north. Sutton Place Park is at e57th and Sutton Place 10022

What's the significance of the wild boar statue?

 

[hedgerow]

What's the significance of the wild boar statue?

nothing really, just some shit a group of artsy-fartsy people wanted there. It's simply a replica from a replica i believe.

 

[Jenny]

thanks Jenny, i call it the 59th Street Bridge, yes that's Sutton Place Park. It's directly over the FDR Drive, formerly the East River Drive.
Here's some info about the boar: https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/sutton-parks/monuments/126

"The park and its vistas of the Queensboro Bridge were featured prominently in Woody Allen’s Manhattan (1979). The park contains the Wild Boar statue, which is a replica of the bronze wild boar completed in 1634 by Renaissance sculptor Pietro Tacca (1557–1640) that stands in Florence, Italy. This replica, alternately known as Porcellino, is in fact a copy of a replica. Tacca himself modeled his boar upon a marble statue now displayed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence." https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/sutton-place-park/history

That's so cool!!! I don't think I ever watched the film but, walking around the park you may very well have run into quite famous people back then. Doubtful it's like that any longer but, 1979 was when I (& my family) lived there in NYC still. I always miss it. I loved growing up there & wish we never moved away. I don't think I ever saw this statue but, one of my dad's probably took me to that park on the weekend as Sundays were Daddy - Daughter day & we usually explored a park before going to some bookstore. 😊 I remember that Park's name.

Also, you're welcome! The picture really would make a good postcard for the park. I don't know if there's a website that features photos of NYC's parks taken by natives but you should submit it 😉 (one that isn't the government site I mean).

 

[hedgerow]

That's so cool!!! I don't think I ever watched the film but, walking around the park you may very well have run into quite famous people back then. Doubtful it's like that any longer but, 1979 was when I (& my family) lived there in NYC still. I always miss it. I loved growing up there & wish we never moved away. I don't think I ever saw this statue but, one of my dad's probably took me to that park on the weekend as Sundays were Daddy - Daughter day & we usually explored a park before going to some bookstore. 😊 I remember that Park's name.

Also, you're welcome! The picture really would make a good postcard for the park. I don't know if there's a website that features photos of NYC's parks taken by natives but you should submit it. 😉

 

[ghastly_Predator]

His widow was advised by police against burying her husband in case the grave was attacked; the body was eventually cremated at Hutcliffe Wood Crematorium, in the city, after lying in a Sheffield mortuary for more than a year, attended only by Shipman's widow and the couple's four children.
Shipman was jailed for life in 2000 for the murder of 15 people. He was found dead at Wakefield prison after hanging himself with bed linen. He was 57.