The long haul from tip to tip
Whew, so today we decided to walk from the northernmost tip of Manhattan (Broadway and 220th St, technically the Bronx, since it was across the river) to the southernmost tip, down in Battery Park. Here's our route. It was a total of 14.3 miles, and took about 7 hours (with lots of breaks, like maybe 1.5 hours for lunch and another hour of goofing off). Anyway, my feet are tired.
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That's crazy dude. Picked a beautiful day to do it though.
Awesome! This is is something that I want to do at least once while I'm living here! I also want to do a five borough walk. And you did choose a beautiful day. My only question is, why the particular route? I think you missed some of the interesting walking bits of Manhattan. Were there some particular spots you were hitting along the way?
They wanted to keep an eye on shores of the New Jersey?
Sounds awesome, Scott. There are many routes you could have done, but following Broadway is an interesting way to see how Manhattan changes.
There weren't too many spots we were explicitly looking for. I think there was some massive church complex we were looking for uptown, and we may have passed it on Broadway, but we weren't sure of the name so couldn't be sure. Also, we passed through Columbia's courtyard, which looks a whole lot nicer than NYU's, that's for damn sure. Afterwards we just waled down Broadway until it started getting packed with pedestrians and realized that if we continued we'd run right through Times Square. So, we went down 5th Ave instead and got some pinkberry at 32nd st. Then we just hauled down Broadway till about WTC, and then walked by it and then all the way down to Battery Park.
I actually wanted to walk down the shore too, I thought it would be very scenic, but the urban crawl was interesting in its own fashion.
http://www.newyorkcitywalk.com/
The New York City Walk site looks like it would be interesting if any of the links worked. Is it just my computer? My feet weren't tired, only my right knee was, maybe I am walking lopsided-ly
Hmmm, the links seem to work on my computer. Were you trying to use the interactive map? It's only interactive where the red bullseyes are.
Hmm it works now, maybe I just happened to look at it when the server was down.
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