Waldo's Bench
This sundial sits on a memorial bench for one of the park's first administrators.
Waldo Hutchins, a Commissioner for Central Park from 1857 to 1869, has a prominent bench just off the Inventors Gate entrance at East 72nd Street. This bench features a sundial with a bronze female figure attributed to Paul Manship, sculptor of the "Prometheus" at Rockefeller Center, and bears the Latin inscription "Ne Diruatur Fuga Temporum," meaning "Let it not be destroyed by the passage of time."
Notably, it's the largest bench in Central Park at 4 feet tall and 27 feet wide.
Hutchins was a member of the first Central Park Board of Commissioners, and the monument was donated to the park by his son in 1932.