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Iconic Views of Central Park Walking Tour
May 1 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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On May 1, we’re heading to the park to join experienced former Central Park Conservancy guide Catherine Fredman for a custom walking tour exploring the very origins of the park.
As we stroll up the iconic Mall, we’ll follow the history of the people and the ideas behind the design and creation of Central Park, the first purpose-built public park in the United States. Why did New York City need a public park? Why was this space chosen? What was so unique about Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s Greensward Plan? Was everything we see today there from the beginning?
Join us for the first LW! walking tour of the spring to view the park as it was first imagined, and see why Vaux declared it a space with “Nature first, second and third—architecture after a while.”
This tour begins at the Dairy (just north of Wollman Rink), wanders up the Mall and ends at Bethesda Terrace. We’ll spend around 90 minutes, plus time for all your questions for our dazzling guide. LW! uses museum-tour style “whisper” tech earphones, so you can listen in comfort as we stroll.
