(I prefer yellow with orange trim, but to each his own.)
I was sitting on a park bench beside the Canal Street canal-fountain thingy when I looked up and saw my buddy Steve Duncan leading a tour of Minetta Brook and the Canal Street canal. Both waterways are now underground, having been incorporated into the city's sewer system, which helps explain why that guy is peering into that manhole with a flashlight.
This fountain, located just off Canal Street, is meant to evoke the eponymous canal that was built in the early 1800s to drain the once-vital Collect Pond, which, until befouled by the 18th-century industries that sprung up around it, had long been one of the city's most important sources of fresh water.
It's not just me who thinks these ventilation systems are amazing!
Why don't they hang out somewhere that doesn't have one of those signs?
Opened in 1928; its predecessor was condemned to make way for the southward extension of Sixth Avenue.
(That's a tour bus.)
Our buddy Never is featured on the trailer this time around.
It's already turned over twice since we were last here.
at the very creatively named Woodtree Playground.
One can only imagine the wonders that must lie behind the locked gate of the enigmatic Port Authority landfill forest.
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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