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Highlights include Belvedere Castle, Bethesda Terrace & Fountain, Bowling Green, Brooklyn Bridge Pier one, Brooklyn Bridge Promenade, City Hall Park.

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  1. Belvedere Castle: story on the “Central Park: Nature by Design” route

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

  2. Bethesda Terrace & Fountain: story on the “Central Park: Nature by Design” route

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

  3. Bowling Green: story on the “Lower Manhattan: Harbor and Power” route

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

  4. Brooklyn Bridge Pier one: story on the “Brooklyn Bridge and the DUMBO Waterfront” route

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

  5. Brooklyn Bridge Promenade: story on the “Brooklyn Bridge and the DUMBO Waterfront” route

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

  6. City Hall Park: story on the “Brooklyn Bridge and the DUMBO Waterfront” route

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

  7. City Hall Park: story on the “Lower Manhattan: Harbor and Power” route

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

  8. Empire Stores: story on the “Brooklyn Bridge and the DUMBO Waterfront” route

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

  9. Federal Hall and Wall Street: story on the “Lower Manhattan: Harbor and Power” route

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

  10. Fraunces Tavern: story on the “Lower Manhattan: Harbor and Power” route

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

  11. Grand Army Plaza: story on the “Central Park: Nature by Design” route

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

  12. Jane's Carousel: story on the “Brooklyn Bridge and the DUMBO Waterfront” route

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

  13. Strawberry Fields: story on the “Central Park: Nature by Design” route

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

  14. The Battery: story on the “Lower Manhattan: Harbor and Power” route

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

  15. The Lake & Bow Bridge: story on the “Central Park: Nature by Design” route

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

  16. The Mall & Literary Walk: story on the “Central Park: Nature by Design” route

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

  17. The Pond and Gapstow Bridge: story on the “Central Park: Nature by Design” route

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

  18. The Towers of Brooklyn Bridge: story on the “Brooklyn Bridge and the DUMBO Waterfront” route

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

  19. Trinity Church: story on the “Lower Manhattan: Harbor and Power” route

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

  20. Washington Street, DUMBO: story on the “Brooklyn Bridge and the DUMBO Waterfront” route

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

  21. World Trade Center and 9/11 Memorial: story on the “Lower Manhattan: Harbor and Power” route

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