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Earlier this week, a Daily News article taught us that many city fountains are maintained by Joe McBain, an employee of the Central Park Conservancy. In addition to money (though homeless people usually take the quarters, dimes and nickels), he's fished out "MetroCards to cell phones to watches" - maybe the watches fly off the wrist when tossing in a coin? The money goes to the city's "general fund" or towards replacement parts for the fountain. This got us thinking about the city's different fountains and wondered if there was a grand list of all the fountains. We found a partial list at Wired New York, but these might only be the city fountains. Help us add to the list below by adding a comment and we'll update it.
And it's cute that people worry when McBain fishes the coins out; he tells them, "Once the money hits the water, their wish is answered."
Bronx:
- Algernon Sydney Sullivan Fountain, Van Cortlandt Park
- The Heinrich Heine Memorial Fountain (also known as the Lorelei Fountain) in Joyce Kilmer Park (Grand Concourse Plaza)
- Rockefeller Fountain, Bronx Zoo
Brooklyn:
- Bailey Fountain, Grand Army Plaza
- Columbus Park Fountain, Brooklyn
Manhattan:
- Angel of the Waters Fountain at Bethesda Terrace, Central Park
- City Hall Park Fountain
- Columbus Circle fountains
- Hamilton Fountain, Riverside Park
- James Fountain, Union Square Park (Union Square Drinking Fountain)
- Fountain at Lincoln Center
- Temperance Fountain, Tompkins Square Park
Queens:
- The Unisphere, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
Staten Island:
- South Beach Dolphin Fountain, Staten Island
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anyone doing Midnight Madness VIII this year? Go Team Flesh!
the Battery Park Bosque Fountain! a spiral of jets designed to be played in, not just admired from afar, though likely in warmer weather. zelda, the battery park turkey is also a fond visitor.
http://www.thebattery.org/rebuilding/fountain.html
My favorite's that wall fountain with a tunnel through it in mid-town. It connects 48th & 49th street in the middle of the block between 6th & 7th.
Madison Square Park's fountain is nice.
The Cooper Hewett put together a walking tour of fountains in NYC for their Fountains exhibition a few years back. It's a great resource. Maybe they've got it archived on their website?
Bryant Park
Perhaps one of the nicest and most hidden fountains in New York is the one lying in the center of the oval in Stuyvesant Town. It is faintly reminiscent of the one in chicago that they use in the opening credits of "Married with Children."
small but nice fountain outside the Brooklyn Museum.