Here’s a little fact I’ll bet you die hard New York natives, newly arrived and tourists alike didn’t know. That grassy knoll which nestles just beyond the Central Park entrance on East 72nd Street is known as “Pilgrim Hill”, in homage to the brazenly bronze statue of a Pilgrim that crowns its crest. Sculpted by John Quincy Adams Ward, “The Pilgrim” was gifted to Central Park by the New England Society in 1885. As an aside, it just so happens that this stoic bronzed gent also watches over what us insiders know to be one of the park’s primo sledding locales in winter as well as a popular picnicking spot in the warmer months. I’d like to think that such joyful sights bring an inward smile to our man as he continues to stand guard throughout the decades.