An endowment established by the Straus family funded the transformation of a neglected reflecting pool in front of the sculpture into a planting bed. 

Bronze 1913 statue by American artist Augustus Lukeman 

Gazing over a calm expanse of water  

The model for the statue was Audrey Munson 

The park exists on a small triangle of land at the intersection of Broadway and West End Avenue  It was known as Schuyler Square when acquired by the city in 1895 and was renamed Bloomingdale Square in 1907

Statue of a nymph  

Built in memory of Ida and Isidor Straus  husband and wife, he a United States congressman and co-owner of Macy's, who died together on RMS Titanic On the memorial is carved a passage from Second Samuel 1:23 "Lovely and Pleasant were they in life and in their death they were not divided" The passage refers to Ida's choice to stay with her beloved husband, Isidor, rather than get safely into a lifeboat.[

Fountain spout in the shape of a lion head 

Straus Park is a small landscaped park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, at the intersection of Broadway, West End Avenue, and 106th Street. 

The Isador and Ida Straus Memorial in New York commemorates the former co-owner of Macy’s department store, who perished with his wife in the sinking of the Titanic.