Hiking the Aggregate of Civilization
True, woodland paths are lovely this time of year, with their overarching greenery, their jutting rocks and their rooted, earthen steps, but if you’ve never hiked a 60-block stretch through the concrete canyons of New York, you just don’t know the whole story when it comes to the joy of walking. Rarely are sidewalks shown to better advantage than in New York City. They are broad, they are wide, they are thronged with people going somewhere. An elastic energy bounds over the p