I’m rating each block in an arbitrary way that is absolutely subjective. At the end of the day: do I like it? Is it enjoyable to be there? Are there cool buildings and stuff to do or look at? Did I get good photos?

I’m trying to focus on some more of the obscure places, but not necessarily.

I do almost no research before picking a block that could be interesting. Sometimes it’s because there’s a cool building that I want to learn more about, and sometimes the light was right. It’s a great way to spend some time in some of the best spaces in New York and learn to tolerate some of my least favorite. Little by little, each little stretch has it’s own energy, history, and unique blend of secondhand vape smoke.

Who knows, maybe I’ll even stop hating 34th Street.

Yeah, kinda. I started with the idea that I’d take a picture of every building on 40th Street. And the day I started on the easternmost block, I realized that this was no one’s idea of fun. So I did this instead.

Glad you asked. Here you go:

Now you’re asking the right questions. Generally, a block are the street segments between two other parallel streets. So I’m not walking around all four corners of a block — just the two sides on the street. Not everything is a perfect grid, or another street bisects one side of a short block. in those cases I’ll be a little more

Because that’s where I work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh, yeah. Sure. Definitely not a marketing gimmick. I’ll finish sometime around when Sufjan finishes his 50th state.