THE GF WALKING TOUR

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Noglu patisserie: 1260 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10128 (Madison Ave between 90th and 91st Street).

After Noglu Make your way west to 5th Ave, you will see Central Park directly ahead. Using the Map to find the steps up to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir. You are standing on the east side of Manhattan and viewing directly across the reservoir the west side of the city. Many runners use this reservoir to get their daily step in. It is 1.58 mile around once.  

Follow the map back down the steps and over to The Obelisk, here you can ignore the map to get up close if you wish to save your steps. This Obelisk is know as Cleopatra’s Needle. Thought to be 3,500 years old. No surprise to learn this is the oldest outdoor monument in NYC. It is hard to understand how old this is, I was just in Athens and visited the Acropolis which is 3,300 year old. So our Obelisk is older. It was once part of a pair (second is currently in London England) and was original in Heliopolis (Now Cairo). Central Park has been its home since 22 February 1881. 

The next stop is to view Alice in Wonderland Statue and the Conservatory Water or better know as Central Park Model Boat Pond. (see more info below) Donated in 1959 by George Delacorte in memory of his wife who often read Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to their children. This sculpture has many little visitors daily; it is a must see. Delacorte also donated the musical clock in the Central Park Zoo.  

We will pass Hans Christian Anderson bronze portrayal, reading from The Ugly Duckling with its main character at its feet. As we known it was in fact a swan

The Map will bring you past the Loeb Boat House which is currently looking for new ownership as you follow the map it will open up to Bethesda Terrace. 

The Angel of Waters sculpture stands 26 feet high, created by Emma Stebbins, one of the first public art commissioned from a woman. It marks the 1842 Croton Aqueduct that brought fresh water from Westchester County into NYC. This was very important in ending the Cholera Epidemic.  If you walk to over to central Park lake you may see some turtles who have made the park their home.  Make your way under the Bethesda Terrace and don’t forget to look up and take in the beautiful Minton tiled ceiling. 

At the other side of the Terrace you will see The Mall area which is a long walkway with seating on either side. Do not enter The Mall here you will follow the map by making a right. Some guest on this trip skip The Beatles park of the tour so I have included two maps if you are not Beatles fans but Strawberry Fields is a memorial to the Beatles John Lennon.