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New York · Creator tour

Central Park to Times Square

with Ben · NYU student · lives in the East Village

Duration
1 hr
Distance
3.4 km
2.1 mi
Stops
5

From the cultural heart of the Upper East Side through Central Park and down to the lights of Times Square — about two miles, a different story every block.

Ben’s route from the Met to Times Square: art, the best fountain in Central Park, Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick’s, then the sensory overload at the end.

Free on iPhone. Open the app and search “Central Park to Times Square”.

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The stops

  1. 1

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    A temple to human creativity on Fifth Avenue.

  2. 2

    Bethesda Fountain

    The Angel of the Waters, by one of the first women to win a major public commission in New York.

  3. 3

    Rockefeller Center

    Finished in 1939, financed by one man, in the middle of the Depression.

  4. 4

    St. Patrick's Cathedral

    The largest decorated Neo-Gothic Catholic cathedral in North America.

  5. 5

    Times Square

    Hundreds of thousands of people a day, and not one of them looking up for the right reason.

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Stories play automatically as you reach each stop.

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