Straus Park

The most notable feature is a bronze 1913 statue by American artist Augustus Lukeman of a nymph gazing over a calm expanse of water 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.

The passage refers to Ida's choice to stay with her beloved husband, Isidor, rather than get safely into a lifeboat.

[4] The Strauses lived in a house at 2747 Broadway, between 105th and 106th Streets, one block south of the location of the memorial.

[5] The park exists on a small triangle of land at the intersection of Broadway and West End Avenue.

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