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The final stop connects the park's designed view with the real work of a weather station.

The fountain will show how personal loss, a city commission, and clean water came together in one public space.

The surviving fence lets you see what remains after the destruction of the royal symbol.

It will conclude the route with a dispute over who would get the freed-up port land.

It will explain why trust in the new crossing had to be won after it opened.

It will show open city land as the place where a declared political break immediately became action.

The final stop returns to the years when freedom had to be defended not by a declaration, but by a new flagpole.

It shows how a port warehouse became part of the chain that turned coffee from a household task into a national product.

This stop will show how a new government office was devised along with its ceremony and its name.

The tavern connects the end of the war with the army's debts and the voluntary surrender of command.

The plaza sets the urban prologue and shows that the route's story begins even before entering among the trees.

Explains why a dismantled carousel did not end up dispersed among private collections.

The garden will explain why a mosaic and living plantings, rather than a statue, were chosen for shared remembrance.

This is where the story begins of a city that was still defended by guns from the harbor.

This stop links the park landscape to the first major test of the new public space.

The avenue’s first statue will link the park promenade to a theater that no longer exists.

Here, an accidental stretch of shallow water brings the interests of birds, city services, and park restorers into conflict.

It will reveal the decision that made it possible to complete the bridge when the foundation and the people had reached their limit.

Here, the political break with Great Britain will become a dispute over an oath, a parish, and the right to land.

It will connect today’s view of the bridge with the packaging factory for which officials had to test a new construction method.

The memorial will shift the conversation from governmental authority to a personal decision to take responsibility for others.

Nearest audio-route stop: Federal Hall and Wall Street — 80 m in a straight line, route Lower Manhattan: Harbor and Power

Nearest audio-route stop: Bethesda Terrace & Fountain — 100 m in a straight line, route Central Park: Nature by Design

Nearest audio-route stop: Bowling Green — 20 m in a straight line, route Lower Manhattan: Harbor and Power

Nearest audio-route stop: The Battery — 40 m in a straight line, route Lower Manhattan: Harbor and Power

Nearest audio-route stop: Federal Hall and Wall Street — 20 m in a straight line, route Lower Manhattan: Harbor and Power

Nearest audio-route stop: Grand Army Plaza — 60 m in a straight line, route Central Park: Nature by Design

Nearest audio-route stop: World Trade Center and 9/11 Memorial — 120 m in a straight line, route Lower Manhattan: Harbor and Power

Nearest audio-route stop: World Trade Center and 9/11 Memorial — 40 m in a straight line, route Lower Manhattan: Harbor and Power

Nearest audio-route stop: Fraunces Tavern — 30 m in a straight line, route Lower Manhattan: Harbor and Power

Nearest audio-route stop: World Trade Center and 9/11 Memorial — 130 m in a straight line, route Lower Manhattan: Harbor and Power

Nearest audio-route stop: Strawberry Fields — 120 m in a straight line, route Central Park: Nature by Design

Nearest audio-route stop: The Battery — 80 m in a straight line, route Lower Manhattan: Harbor and Power

Nearest audio-route stop: Trinity Church — 30 m in a straight line, route Lower Manhattan: Harbor and Power

Nearest audio-route stop: City Hall Park — 80 m in a straight line, route Brooklyn Bridge and the DUMBO Waterfront