Central Park Is a Lie
"You're standing at the entrance to Central Park. Eight hundred and forty-three acres. Bigger than Vatican City. Almost twice the size of Monaco."
Stories you won't hear anywhere else — told right where they happened.
5 experiences · 44 stories · Audio-guided · Works offline
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"You're standing at the entrance to Central Park. Eight hundred and forty-three acres. Bigger than Vatican City. Almost twice the size of Monaco."
Chelsea / Meatpacking
"You're standing on a street where cowboys rode horses through Manhattan for ninety years. Not metaphorical cowboys. Not a theme restaurant."
Midtown
"Midtown Manhattan has a problem. It's full of buildings that are lying to you. That dome you're about to see? Cast iron painted to look like marble."
Brooklyn Bridge
"Welcome to Bad Historian, where everything I tell you is probably true. Eighty percent of it definitely is."
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Stories play at each stop. End with a quiz to test what you caught.