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fountain be altered to contain the words “of the Apes.” After a year of going unnoticed, someone finally complained to the city about the strange alteration, but Stern refused to change his decision. “It’s a great movie,” he offered up as justification for his action, “which is also a treatise on the dangers of war.” An adjacent fountain in the same park is named “The Fountain of the Grapes of Wrath.” Stern figured that if there was a fountain named after an animal related pop culture reference, it was only fair to have another containing a plant related one as well. –Chris Maget and Robyn Miller You can read about all of New York’s other Roadside Oddities and curious attractions in our book Weird New York. |