Public Art "Embracing Peace"

A twenty-five-foot bronze sculpture of a sailor kissing a nurse stands at the edge of Tuna Harbor Park. It captures a spontaneous, joyful moment from August fourteenth, nineteen forty-five, when news of the surrender of Imperial Japan reached Times Square in New York City. The sculpture is modeled after the iconic photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt on that day, symbolizing the massive public relief that greeted the end of the Second World War.