Day 1326
Barberz #116
August 17th, 2015
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 felt a pressing need to know what flag had been cut out (because that’s the kind of thing I get obsessed with when I have more important things to do), and I couldn’t figure it out from the tiny bit remaining, so I resorted to scouting the street on Streetview. I found it (Dominican Republic), but the more interesting thing is that the sign is not in its original location. So now I’m imagining some great interbarber drama, a business partnership dissolved, the Dominican yelling “it’s *my* name on the lease, so *you* have to get out!”, the Trinidadian retorting “well my nephew made that sign, so I’m taking it with me! And that’s my jar of combs floating in blue stuff too!”
Oh man, excellent detective work! I’m amazed you found the original place two blocks away. I had no idea.