Walk ALL the bridges of NYC
dude!! i wanna go =)
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The Bridges of New York County: Training Walk No. 2
A 10-mile training walk. Do you believe the height of romance is a stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge on a warm summer evening? Does it anger you that the grace and elegance of the Manhattan Bridge are so often overshadowed by its showy neighbor to the south? Do you consider the hulking trapezoidal clunkiness of the Williamsburg Bridge a testament to function or just an eyesore? Have you found the Queensboro Bridge an acquired taste, your mind now perceiving splendidly intertwined symmetries where once there was only a garish mass of steel? Don't those lift bridges to Roosevelt Island and Ward's Island seem a bit eerie, as if they're just waiting to strand you on those forsaken lands of asylums, prisons, and graveyards? Is the Triborough Bridge New York's answer to the Four Corners of the Southwest? Do you admire the silent strength of the workhorse Harlem River crossings, who carry traffic across their sturdy backs day after day with nary a word of gratitude from the city the
y so steadfastly serve? What's more impressive about the George Washington Bridge: the seductive open latticework of its shapely towers or the courage it exhibits as the only one of the city's bridges bold enough to span the mighty Hudson?
Whatever your opinions on these bridges, no one's going to be able to argue with you once you've personally strode across every last one of them. You will be Lord of the Bridges, and you will suffer no fools.
On Saturday, May 24 (Memorial Day weekend), we'd love to have you join us on a 32-mile ambulatory journey across all the walkable bridges connecting Manhattan to the other boroughs and New Jersey (and even to some estranged parts of itself).
Interested but not sure you're up for such a long walk? Don't fret: we're leading a series of training walks on the weekends preceding the big hike. This Saturday we'll take a 10-mile jaunt around Astoria, Roosevelt Island, and Long Island City. If it looks like there will be bad weather Saturday, the walk will be pushed back to Sunday (same location and time). Check the website for status updates.
Meet at Northwest corner of 31st Street and Ditmars Boulevard, Astoria, Queens
Noon; $free
matt.burnsomedust[at]gmail.com
burnsomedust.com
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The Bridges of New York County: Training Walk No. 2
A 10-mile training walk. Do you believe the height of romance is a stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge on a warm summer evening? Does it anger you that the grace and elegance of the Manhattan Bridge are so often overshadowed by its showy neighbor to the south? Do you consider the hulking trapezoidal clunkiness of the Williamsburg Bridge a testament to function or just an eyesore? Have you found the Queensboro Bridge an acquired taste, your mind now perceiving splendidly intertwined symmetries where once there was only a garish mass of steel? Don't those lift bridges to Roosevelt Island and Ward's Island seem a bit eerie, as if they're just waiting to strand you on those forsaken lands of asylums, prisons, and graveyards? Is the Triborough Bridge New York's answer to the Four Corners of the Southwest? Do you admire the silent strength of the workhorse Harlem River crossings, who carry traffic across their sturdy backs day after day with nary a word of gratitude from the city the
y so steadfastly serve? What's more impressive about the George Washington Bridge: the seductive open latticework of its shapely towers or the courage it exhibits as the only one of the city's bridges bold enough to span the mighty Hudson?
Whatever your opinions on these bridges, no one's going to be able to argue with you once you've personally strode across every last one of them. You will be Lord of the Bridges, and you will suffer no fools.
On Saturday, May 24 (Memorial Day weekend), we'd love to have you join us on a 32-mile ambulatory journey across all the walkable bridges connecting Manhattan to the other boroughs and New Jersey (and even to some estranged parts of itself).
Interested but not sure you're up for such a long walk? Don't fret: we're leading a series of training walks on the weekends preceding the big hike. This Saturday we'll take a 10-mile jaunt around Astoria, Roosevelt Island, and Long Island City. If it looks like there will be bad weather Saturday, the walk will be pushed back to Sunday (same location and time). Check the website for status updates.
Meet at Northwest corner of 31st Street and Ditmars Boulevard, Astoria, Queens
Noon; $free
matt.burnsomedust[at]gmail.com
burnsomedust.com