One of two synagogues I saw today that now share space with adult living facilities — a sign of Canarsie's shrinking Jewish population?
on East 100th Street. On its page about this playground, the Parks Department offers a nice little history of children's recreation in the city, featuring this quote from Teddy Roosevelt: "If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play."
Just a few days after the Boston Marathon bombings, paranoia is running high. Someone called 911 to report a "suspicious package" at the intersection of Farragut Road and East 105th Street. In Canarsie. On the corner of a vacant lot. The cop did a serviceable job of sounding serious when he told me that's why I couldn't pass through. "Hey, if someone calls 911, we can't just kick it into the gutter", he said with a smile. I had to circle back around later in the day, after the bomb scare was over, to pick up this block.
This mile-long inlet was the site of the 1964 US Olympic rowing trials, and, as you can see, it's still a popular spot with the oar-bearing crowd.
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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