← Grand Central West: 42nd Street to the Hudson

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Neptune

Pier 76, Hudson River Park

📍 Neptune sits roughly halfway out on the pier — fittingly, right at the water. About an inch across at this scale.

At true scale: 1.1 in (2.7 cm) across

About this place

About an inch across, 1.5 miles from a 30-inch clock, and one of the westernmost points Manhattan has to offer. You have now walked the whole solar system and spent most of it walking past nothing — which is the most accurate thing about it.