Four years, 120,000 city blocks. A life long New York City resident, Sociologist William Helmreich decided to systematically walk all the city streets of all five boroughs - Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and The Bronx. His newly published book The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6000 Miles in the City chronicles his journey. An Atlantic Cities review gives some background including a great quote from Helmreich “ 'Every block can be interesting. It’s not just about covering ground, it’s about how you cover ground.' ”
Helmreich takes his students out to walk neighborhoods "teaching them to use its neighborhoods as a sort of living laboratory".
I haven't read the book yet but it is on the top of my reading list. Published by Princeton University Press it is available on their website, also through academic sources on line such as JSTOR for those with access, and of course through Amazon both in hardcover and as an e-book.
Helmreich takes his students out to walk neighborhoods "teaching them to use its neighborhoods as a sort of living laboratory".
I haven't read the book yet but it is on the top of my reading list. Published by Princeton University Press it is available on their website, also through academic sources on line such as JSTOR for those with access, and of course through Amazon both in hardcover and as an e-book.
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