Fort Tryon's Alpine Garden
Day 111
Stone staircase
April 19th, 2012
I'm walking every street in New York City.
This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!
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~9,954 miles walked
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I just learned about you yesterday, through an interview I watched with Jesse Eisenberg — WOW. I immediately watched the documentary. I’m old enough to have gone to the 64 World’s Fair, and lived in the projects just below Ft Tryon Park. I burst into tears seeing this photo. GOOD tears. I’ve started writing about my growing up for my daughter so I was in the middle of nostalgic journeys in my head (I grew up in NY, NJ and all over the UK) and I remembered so vividly climbing these steps with my dad following behind me, carrying my little red bicycle with training wheels. I must have been 6 years old. I live in New Mexico now, but my daughter and I are planning a trip to NY in the Spring so I can revisit these places. Thank you for doing what you do. You are so inspiring.