George Washington is easily among the most well-known figures in American history, considered the father of the country by the sort of person who uses a phrase like that.
He led the Continental Army to victory in the American Revolution, and was the first president.
He is the most “monumentalized” person in New York City, that is to say no one is the subject of more memorials than he is.
There are seven statues of Washington in New York: a statue of him and the Marquis de Lafayette in Manhattan’s Morningside Park, two statues on the arch in Washington Square, an equestrian statue in Union Square, one in Flushing Meadows/Corona Park in Queens, one in Washington Plaza in Brooklyn and the enormous figure outside Federal Hall.
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