New York travel: Where fans of Friends should visit in NYC For any Friends fan, this 22-foot-tall ornamental fountain located in the Grand Army Plaza will be as familiar from the opening credits as THAT song by The Rembrandts (and you know you still do ‘the clap.’) Originating from 1916 and depicting the ancient Roman goddess of abundance, Pomona, the fountain was replicated exactly in a Californian studio just to make the Friends intro.