From Joan of Arc to Grant’s Tomb: Inspiring Civic Virtue with Public Sculpture on Riverside Drive

In these peaceful, quiet blocks of the Upper West Side, New York’s citizens have chosen to honor, with monuments, exemplars of Civic Virtue: generals, presidents (and want-to-be’s), musicians, speakers and preachers, itinerant monks, actors, freedom-fighters, writers, composers, orators, the famous and anonymous, and others who aren’t there but should be.