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A Flat Mile Around Swan Lake
At Rockefeller Preserve, the Rockefellers' crushed-stone carriage roads circle a 24-acre lake on a grade gentle enough to push a newborn around before the July heat lands.
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Two Hundred and Fifty Acres, Seated
At the New York Botanical Garden the narrated tram turns a 250-acre July walk into a shaded, seated loop past the largest old-growth forest left in New York City, the rare big-garden day that asks almost nothing of a newborn.
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Carry the Baby to the Reptile House
The Bronx Zoo's cool, dim indoor houses are the right call for a newborn on a hot or stormy July day, and the real work is carrying the baby between them across 265 acres.