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 walk in Spring Creek, I accidentally missed about 20 feet of a block on Vandalia Avenue. 20 feet! So I'll have to go back in the next few days and walk it before I can officially check Brooklyn off the list. If that sounds like a meaningless waste of time to you, I'd argue that the meaninglessness of this whole endeavor is the only thing that gives it meaning in the first place.
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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