Walking every block of NYC
Today I walked my final blocks of Staten Island, the only borough I had left to complete. I was quite surprised to find the sign below waiting for me at the finish line, 4300 Amboy Road, which was the randomly selected point where I started the walk back on the last day of 2011. After [ ] The post All five boroughs: ✅ appeared first on I m Just Walkin .
This could have been a beautiful day of pure absurdity, biking across Brooklyn just to walk the missing 20ish feet of a single block. But I ruined it by deciding to walk some bonus park and public housing paths while I was in the area. Oh well, what can I say? I m a weak man [ ] The post Brooklyn: ✅ appeared first on I m Just Walkin .
The late afternoon sun shone through the Javits Center as I walked my last stretch of Manhattan, down 11th Avenue to the Gansevoort Peninsula beach. The post Manhattan: ✅ appeared first on I m Just Walkin .
This was the view as I crossed Betts Creek on the Jamaica Bay Greenway beside the Belt Parkway, taking my final steps in Queens before entering Brooklyn. I intended to finish walking Brooklyn today as well, but I discovered after returning home that, due to Erskine Street being realigned in the years since my first [ ] The post Queens: ✅ appeared first on I m Just Walkin .
I did my final walk in the Bronx today, filling in the last pieces of the map in Pelham Bay Park and City Island. Here to help me celebrate is one of the two nude sunbathers I saw on Two Trees Island (now with more trees!) in Pelham Bay Park. The post The Bronx: ✅ appeared first on I m Just Walkin .
After all these years, I m finally nearing the end. I only have four walks left to do: one in the Bronx, one spanning Brooklyn and Queens, one in Manhattan, and one in Staten Island. I ll be doing the final walk on September 21. The progress map will be fully updated soon, and I ll post some [ ] The post Almost done! appeared first on I m Just Walkin .
I m slowly making my way through my massive backlog of photos from 2015 to the present. See below for the most recent posts. In other news, webmaster/wizard Jason Eppink has created a new photo map showing the location of every picture I ve posted. The map will be continually updated as I add more photos to [ ] The post Still at it appeared first on I m Just Walkin .
Blessed be the memory of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Gazing back through the rosy haze of history, we recall the Dodgers as the cherished sons of Brooklyn, a noble band of knights-errant who brought honor to the land by playing baseball the way it was meant to be played, simply for the love of the game. [ ] The post A Brooklyn sports heritage appeared first on I m Just Walkin .
It is the undisputed king of the Brooklyn skyline, the most populous borough s only widely recognized piece of architecture that is not a roller coaster. . . . [It] casts its shadow over the congested crossroads of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, towering a good 400 feet over almost everything in the vicinity and visible from the Jersey Shore. [ ] The post Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower appeared…
and texting while riding helmetless through an intersection The post Bootleg DVDs and miniature flags appeared first on I m Just Walkin .
The skyline of Downtown Brooklyn and vicinity is undergoing a rapid transformation. The post Packin em in appeared first on I m Just Walkin .
I ll let you guess which part of this building is the original carriage house and which is the 21st-century addition. In booze news, the Budweiser Brewing Company signed a five-year lease on this property in 1896. Then, during a Prohibition-era raid here in 1931, the aptly named Morris Martini was arrested and the following was [ ] The post 31 St. Felix Street appeared first on I m Just Walkin .
These ladies make a couple of brief appearances in this video about the artist, Alan Aine. The faces have been refreshed since I walked by back in 2015. Check out the before and after images. The post Ladies on plywood appeared first on I m Just Walkin .
The Brooklyn Academy of Music s Peter Jay Sharp Building The post Portal of the day appeared first on I m Just Walkin .
The most striking thing about this church, built 1929-1931, is not its unique, imposing architecture ('Gothic restyled in modern dress . . . that might be termed cubistic Art Moderne'), but rather something much more commonplace — three commercial storefronts! This church is not just a house of the Lord; it s also the home of a restaurant, a [ ] The post Hanson Place Central United Methodist…