Tap a number to read that stop. The full map has 12 places on the walks, and 8 beyond them, as far as Kings Point and Sands Point, and the walks between them.
01West Egg
The green light
Across the bay
West EggMiddle Neck Road, the peninsula's main street, signed as Great Gatsby Way.2022 · D. Benjamin Miller / Wikimedia Commons
Nick has come East in the spring of 1922 and rented a weather-beaten bungalow
for eighty dollars a month. Next door is a mansion, and on its lawn one night
stands the man who owns it, alone, with his arms stretched out toward the dark
water.
Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single
green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.
You are a long way from this shore for the rest of the walk. Keep the light in
mind; everything that happens in the city happens because of it.
02Queensboro Bridge
The city seen for the first time
Over the Queensboro Bridge
c. 19102016Queensboro BridgeThe bridge from Roosevelt Island, which was Blackwell's Island in 1922.c. 1910 · Library of Congress2016 · King of Hearts / Wikimedia Commons
Stand where the bridge lifts clear of Queens and Manhattan opens ahead of you.
This is the view Nick Carraway has from the passenger seat of Gatsby's car, on
the way to a lunch he does not yet understand.
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the
first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in
the world.
It is the last moment in the novel when New York is only a promise.
03The Forty-second Street cellar
Roaring noon
Lunch with Wolfsheim
1922The Forty-second Street cellarA well-fanned basement restaurant at noon, daylight down the stairs.1922 · Illustration, AI-made for Same Streets
Out of the glare of the street and down a flight of steps. Gatsby is waiting
in the anteroom with a small, flat-nosed man who looks Nick over and begins to
talk about a friend who was shot outside the old Metropole, a few blocks west
of here.
When the man has gone, Nick asks who he is. A gambler, Gatsby says, and then,
coolly:
He's the man who fixed the World's Series back in 1919.
The idea staggers Nick. It had never occurred to him that one man could play
with the faith of fifty million people.
The story continues
The full experience has 29 story stops across 12 places on the walks, and 8 beyond them, as far as Kings Point and Sands Point, on 2 walks, 3h 15m in all.
West Egg
