Dante Park

{{short description|Public park in Manhattan, New York}}

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| photo_caption = Statue of author and poet Dante Alighieri in Dante Park opposite the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

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| location = Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City

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| coords = {{Coord|40|46|19|N|73|58|57|W}}

| area = {{convert|0.14|acre|ha}}

| created = 1921

| operator = New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

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Dante Park is a public park in Manhattan, New York City, located on the Upper West Side in front of Lincoln Center near Central Park.

Dante Park was established in 1921 by Italian-Americans in honor of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) on a triangular plot of land opposite Lincoln Center, bounded by Broadway, Columbus Avenue, and West 63rd Street. Carlo Barsotti, the editor of the Italian-American newspaper Il Progresso Italo-Americano, originally wanted to erect a much more substantial statue of Dante to be placed in Times Square around 1912, but because of fundraising difficulties opted for a smaller statue completed by Ettore Ximenes to be erected at Broadway and West 63rd Street in 1921, the 600th anniversary of Dante's death.{{cite web

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| title =That statue of Dante in the heart of Manhattan

| last =Thomas Dossena

| first =Tiziano

| date =2011

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| publisher =Bridge Puglia USA

| access-date = August 8, 2016}}{{cite web

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| access-date = August 5, 2016}} Dante Park underwent renovations in the early 1990s funded by the neighboring Radisson Empire Hotel, with the sculpture also repaired.

A Dante Alighieri statue of the same casting as Dante Park is featured at Meridian Hill Park in Washington, D.C.