This is the statue of Jose Marti, the hero of the independence war of Cuba, falling from his horse in the first of his last battle field. Cuba get rid of the political dominance of Spanish empire, and it subdued to the American economical one.

The metro in NY is the third one, in 1904, long time after the one in London, 1863, and Budapest one, approved in 1870, and built in 1894.