because a woman named jane walentas and her husband wanted to give a gift to the city of new york. >>o, i looked at a lot of carousels all over the country, and this one was in an auction in youngstown, ohio. there was an amusement park that was being sold. there had been a fire at the park which burned their roller coaster, and the firemen saved the carousel, but some of the horses were singed. >> that was the beginning of a long labor of love for jane and her team of artists. so, could you describe the work you did on this carousel? >> yes. the first thing i did was i scraped all the paint off it, down to the original paint, and we proceeded to repaint it all to the way it originally was. >> the painstaking work of repairing and restoring went on for 25 years. >> i was looking at some old footage that i had from the early days, and i thought, "oh my god, i was so young when i started!" >> jane may have gotten older, but the carousel was looking brand-new. when the work was finally finished, the carousel was officially named -- what else? -- "jane's carousel." so, tell me how the car