Join Us as We Unveil the Vistas of New York’s Greatest Work of Art

This is an in-person walking tour.

Duration

2 hours

Overview

This walking tour focuses on the natural and man-made beauties of Central Park, New York’s greatest works of art.

Central Park is the largest surviving piece of open space in Manhattan, but its landscape and scenery are actually artificial, constructed from designs by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux starting in the late 1850s.

Tour Highlights

• The Literary Walk with its magnificent elm trees
• Bethesda Terrace and Fountain
• The Boat House
• Sheep Meadow

And many, many more of the elements assembled to give the visitor a moment of ease and tranquility, far from the frenetic life of the city just outside the park walls.

Central Park is also a fine example of 19th-century ideas about the power of a city’s government and government officials to positively affect the lives of its citizens. We will see how Vaux and Olmsted designed a democratic space for all New Yorkers and visitors, no matter their social or economic status, an essential aspect of the park’s history that still applies today.

Please Note

The tour takes place rain or shine. We will send you the meeting location after you sign up