Is the Statue from the TV show 'Friends' in Central Park? • NYC Info!

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Is the Statue from the TV show 'Friends' in Central Park? Where is it, is it still there to visit?

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The Olmsted Flower Bed is an approximately 40 foot wide round flower bed located at the base of Literary Walk, which is part of the Mall. The park's designer was Frederick Law Olmsted and this flower bed is the only monument to this great designer in the entire park. Surprisingly, there was no commemoration to Olmsted in the Park until 1972, almost 100 years after it opened. The Olmsted Flower Bed memorializes the 150th anniversary of Olmsted’s birth.

This beautiful planting of annuals and perennials offers year-round color and includes tulips, pansies, phlox, azaleas, Cherry Laurel and Japanese Maple. In 1997, the Conservancy restored the Olmsted Flower Bed. Beautified with seasonal pansies, impatiens, and flowing groundcover, it is a memorial garden surrounded by American Elms.

The lower end of the Mall is known informally as Literary Walk or Poets’ Walk, as four of the five statues memorialize poets and writers: William Shakespeare (1870), Robert Burns (ca. 1880), Sir Walter Scott (1871), and Fitz-Greene Halleck (1876); the fifth represents Christopher Columbus (1892).

What about the Fountain? A lot of people think that the fountain in the opening credits of the American television show from the 1990s, "Friends", was located in New York's Central Park. That would make perfect sense of course, the television series which starred Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston was supposed to be located in New York City. (Most fans and viewers will recall the coffee shop that the 'friends' hung out in was called, "Central Perk", as if it were located near Central Park. It was all sheer fiction of course, and the fountain the friends dance around in the opening credits was a television prop fountain on the Warner Brothers studio lot in Los Angeles.

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