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Do statues "belong" in Central Park? Public art expert Michele Bogart says "Yes!" To prove it, she takes us inside the social and financial networks of the late 19th c. to meet the players of the day-August Belmont, Christian Edward Detmold, William Cullen Bryant-and learn why they were early proponents of statues in Central Park and just how they ended up shaping the greenspace that so defines the image of our city.