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Earth
Vanderbilt Avenue at 43rd Street
📍 The gum splotches on the sidewalk here run about five times the size of the entire planet at this scale. Look up, too: the stone statue over Grand Central's 42nd Street face carries a giant Tiffany & Co. clock, with the Chrysler Building just visible past its shoulder.
At true scale: 0.27 in (7 mm) across
About this place
Home: 0.27 inches across, 266 feet from the clock, and the first outdoor air on this walk. The Moon would orbit about 8 inches out — the whole of home and its one moon inside a handspan.
While you're here
- Grand Central's 42nd Street façade Worth seeing The stone statuary group and its oversized Tiffany & Co. clock — the Chrysler Building peeks out just to the right.
Next stop →
Cross 42nd Street (watch for cabs) into Pershing Square — Mars sits roughly halfway down the avenue.
See the whole route →