6. Puck Statue of the Puck Building, Lafayette and Houston Streets
The gilded, cherub-faced dandy named Puck sits on a pedestal embedded midway up the edge of the late 19th-century industrial building of his namesake. The publisher of Puck, a notable American humor magazine, built that building that would house their magazine and the J. Ottman Lithographic Company. Ottman printed the magazine, where Puck was featured on the masthead.
The statue was created by a relatively unknown German sculptor named Henry Baerer. However, Puck’s co-founder Joseph Keppler, created the original design for the mounted statue. It is said that his little daughter posed for his design.