City College Professor of Sociology Bill Helmreich decided one day to start walking his City. He started small, but kept at it, and over the next several years, Helmreich had walked every street in New York City — a total of 6,000 miles or about 121,000 blocks.
Putting his feet to the test, he decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to walk virtually every block of all five boroughs--an astonishing 6,000 miles. His journey took him to every corner of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. Helmreich spoke with hundreds of New Yorkers from every part of the globe and all walks of life. He finds that to be a New Yorker is to struggle to understand the place and to make a life that is as highly local as it is dynamically cosmopolitan.
Helmreich has written a book about his explorations titled The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City and it is available on [Amazon]((https://www.amazon.com/New-York-Nobody-Knows-Walking/dp/0691144052?tag=viewingnyc-20) for about $20.
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Matt Coneybeare
Editor in Chief
Matt enjoys exploring the City's with his partner and son. He is an avid marathon runner, and spends most of his time eating, running, and working on cool stuff.
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