Midtown EastOutdoors & Recreation
Sharansky Steps
Description
Connecting Ralph Bunche Park and First Avenue below with the Tudor City apartments above, the Sharansky Steps are named after Natan Sharansky, an Israeli politician and human rights activist who spent more than a decade imprisoned in his native Soviet Union for his involvement in the "refusenik" movement.
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Parks & Gardens
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