Bethesda Terrace's alcove features an ornate mural and flanking columns.
A daytime view of one architectural alcove of Bethesda Terrace in New York City's, Central Park's, Bethesda Terrace. The alcove has an elaborate beveled arch at the top. A raised mural of a woman standing and holding a bouquet of flowers. Vines are growing up from her feet. A stacked diamond design is behind and on each side of the woman in the mural. The Alcove is flanked by square columns. Each column has narrow cylindrical columns on each side of it. There mural has green rectangular tiles that curve inward on each end. Between these tiles is a circle design with a six-sided star in it. One concrete step is at the base of the alcove. It has curved ends. There are five pieces of crumpled paper littering the foreground towards the right.