I'm Just Walkin'

USA | NYC

Day 968

99 years on this block

August 24th, 2014

After finishing my walk in Staten Island and heading to Brooklyn, I noticed a cool engraving on this building at Grand and Waterbury Streets that I had missed when I previously walked by.

Sounds like F.H. Von Damm started as a grocery store before becoming an animal feed and fertilizer wholesaler. And the business seems to have lasted well over 99 years at this location.

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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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