Stride StoriesRunning tour · Manhattan
Museum Mile
1.2 mi run
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The stories on this route
The Reservoir
Look up the bank: an iron fence, a track, and beyond them, a lot of water. This reservoir covers 106 acres and holds over a billion gallons.
Cooper Hewitt
Look at the mansion behind the garden and its iron fence. Andrew Carnegie built it between 1899 and 1903. He chose the spot largely because it had room for a garden. When he bought the land in 1898, squatters still lived on part of it.
Guggenheim Museum
Look at the great spiral. Then look down at the pavement in front. Those inset metal circles bring the round theme right inside.
Neue Galerie
Look at the mansion on the corner of 86th Street: red brick and limestone under a steep slate roof. The city's landmarks report calls it one of the finest mansions on Fifth Avenue. It went up in 1912 to 1914 for William Starr Miller.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Look up at the front of the Met. Wide steps, three great arches, and four pairs of columns. On top of each pair sits a big, rough block of stone.
Cleopatra's Needle
Look through the trees behind the Met for the tip of a pink granite obelisk. It's about 69 feet tall, weighs about 200 tons, and it's about 3,500 years old. It was cut as one of a pair, for a pharaoh's jubilee about 1443 BC.
Stories researched October 2026 · every fact checked against a source
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