Stop on this walk
Earth
Jacob Wrey Mould Fountain, City Hall Park
📍 The paved ring around the fountain. Benches on every side, which makes this the best stop on the walk to sit down and actually look at the thing.
At true scale: 1.9 in (4.8 cm) across
About this place
Home, 1.87 inches across and 1,967 feet from the Sun. The Moon would orbit four feet eight inches out — one long stride, holding the Earth here. Everything any human being has ever done in space happened inside that stride.
Next stop →
Southeast across the park and over Park Row, toward the Brooklyn Bridge ramps. Mars is the small plaza tucked underneath them, about four minutes.
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