Stop on this walk
Mars
Drumgoole Plaza
📍 The benches under the ramp, not the roadway above them. The 1964 World's Fair benches here are the giveaway that you are in the right place.
At true scale: 1 in (2.5 cm) across
About this place
An inch across, 2,705 feet out — just past half a mile. Mars is the end of the easy part. All four rocky planets fit inside that half mile; Jupiter alone is another mile and a quarter beyond it.
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North and west, up through Tribeca toward Washington Square — about half an hour on foot. You are crossing the asteroid belt for all of it: a mile and a quarter of this walk is the gap between Mars and Jupiter, and there is nothing in it. That emptiness is the most astronomically honest stretch of the day.
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