A Walker In The City

William Helmreich is a sixty-seven-year-old professor of sociology at CUNY and has walked almost every single street in New York City. Yep, that's all five boroughs - Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. His book about the experience, The New York Nobody Knows, is released in October but this New Yorker article, A Walker In The City, is a pretty fascinating read - particularly all of the insights about the Bronx and some of the misconceptions of it.

I try not to post too much NYC-centric stuff but I think this is interesting to anyone, NYC based or not. Can you imagine walking your entire city? Every street? I certainly can't.