{"id":488593,"date":"2026-02-25T00:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/488593\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:31:08","slug":"snowmanhenge-and-other-wild-blizzard-sculptures-pop-up-in-nyc-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/488593\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Snowmanhenge&#8217; and other wild blizzard sculptures pop up in NYC parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brrr-ave Big Apple artisans hit local parks <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/24\/us-news\/more-snow-may-hit-nyc-wednesday-after-historic-blizzard-mayor-zohran-mamdani\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after Monday\u2019s blizzard <\/a>to create \u201cSnowmanhenge\u201d and other fanciful works \u2014 building countless wild snow sculptures that would put Frosty to shame.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn\u2019s masterpieces ranged from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/daniel_lefferts\/status\/2026089656819822935\" rel=\"nofollow\">pondering bench figures<\/a> in Crown Heights to an Easter Island moai at McGolrick Park in Greenpoint to a gargantuan gaggle of snowmen at Bedford-Stuyvesant\u2019s Herbert Von King Park, later dubbed \u201cSnowmanhenge\u201d by the city Parks Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSnowmanhenge\u201d seen in Herbert Von King Park in Brooklyn Tuesday. NYC Parks\/ X<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sculptures are great,\u201d said Jim Zuckerman, a 77-year-old retiree, to The Post during a walk around Central Park\u2019s creations \u2013 which included a pair of polar bears, an igloo, male head, topless woman with red lipstick and a penis.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Mukasa, a 31-year-old who sells window treatments, called the makeshift snow sculpture park, \u201cBeauty! Beauty! Beauty!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Students from Fieldston posing inside a snow structure in Central Park. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>A detailed snow sculpture of a face \u2014 with six-pack abs \u2014 in Central Park after the blizzard. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Mukasa, 31, noted the male figure with washboard abs was his favorite of the bunch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could tell everybody likes it too, because people were taking pictures,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nylos Wilson, a 22-year-old student, called out an adorable mom-and-child polar bear sculpture in particular.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sculptures are great,\u201d said Jim Zuckerman, a 77-year-old retired New Yorker. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like the vibe of it, it\u2019s very nice and friendly,\u201d said the 22-year-old student. \u201cIt\u2019s very cute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, making the best out of the weather \u2013 [it\u2019s] just fun,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brrr-ave Big Apple artisans hit local parks after Monday\u2019s blizzard to create \u201cSnowmanhenge\u201d and other fanciful works \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,50112,229,88,6956,5871,18433,60376,194],"class_list":["post-488593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-blizzard","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-extreme-weather","tag-metro","tag-nyc","tag-snow","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}