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While walking all of downtown Manhattan is quite a feat, Gothamist wasn't that blown away by Robert Jay Kaufman's below 14th street travels. Mainly because many other have tried to walk all of Manhattan, most recently Caleb Smith (whose markered up map is above). Photoblogger Mike Epstein of Satan's Laundromat is in the middle of his all-Manhattan walk (we interviewed him a few weeks ago). What is pretty cool about Kaufman's walk is that he's writing a walking guide, Blockology to accompany it. But there are many other things you can do besides walk Manhattan blocks. You can photograph 'em, talk to a different friend every five blocks on the phone, scoop dog poo, buy a different iced drink, pee in alleys... This is how New Yorkers spend their days.
What's your favorite NYC walk? This NY Times description of blocks is fun and informative: A blur block is "Synchronized lights and multiple lanes for traffic, resulting in a block that’s a blur to both drivers and pedestrians."
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my favorite NYC walk is an eating tour of the Lower East Side! Here's some highlights and a map...
http://cityrag.blogs.com/main/2004/week31/index.html#a0001857065
It's hard to pick a favorite because NYC is almost a pedestrian's paradise. Just walking on a decent street fills me with energy. I love the Brooklyn Bridge when it's not choked with tourists. I love the section of Flatbush Avenue sandwiched between Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, especially when the traffic dies down momentarily and it's hard to believe you're in the heart of Brooklyn. While I love Times Square, Chinatown, Midtown, and lower Manhattan, I hate many Manhattan streets like the southern blocks of Lexington, where it's deathly dull, just lots of high rise apartments with small stores street level. Ditto for the Upper East and West Sides. Too much gentrification sucks the life out of the street.
my sister lives near the block above the Bedford L stop...it's like an outdoor Diesel/Urban Outfitters commercial - excellent people watching
Jen, in a similar but more peripheral event, Shorewalkers will conduct it's annual Great Saunter event in a few weeks on May 7th. It's a 32-mile walk around the entire edge of Manhattan island that takes about 11 hours. I just missed hearing about it in time for last year's walk, but am going to try it out this year. Time to start looking for some comfortable shoes.
I love to walk into and out of stores and restaurants, museums, theatres, cabs and train stations, buses, over to street vendors selling non edible and edible things, aimlessly around block after block and lots of other places. I don't know why I don't like strolling around in Central Park.
I'm with the captain... Bklyn Bridge at dusk on a cold day.
Also, the water's edge from Battery Park City down to the park is also nice.
No one mentions NY Songlines? No one has heard of it? It's available for free, so why promote this (non-free, old tech) book? Why isn't NY Songlines linked on the right, along with Forgotten-NY and Slice? And why isn't my "Big Apple" blog there, too?
Drats! Someone stole my dream!
Barry, very good point. I too am baffled why some sites are not mentioned.
But in an effort to be productive, here is the info. New York Songlines has been doing everything everyone talks about here and is actually more detailed and rich in many ways.
Anyone who has not looked through it should really look at it.
http://www.nysonglines.com/
this guy has apparently walked it twice. the others suck compare to this guy. give it up.
http://linkage.cpmc.columbia.edu/Manhattan_Walk/Walk.html