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THE TRIP
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The short answer
At a glance
On the Brooklyn Bridge, which is best walked early and from the Brooklyn side.
Four days in New York, arranged by neighbourhood so you walk more than you ride.
The opening scene
Picture Washington Street in Dumbo at seven in the morning. The cobbles are empty, the light comes down the street low and gold, and the Manhattan Bridge sits framed between two old warehouses at the end of it, exactly the way it does in every photograph, only without the crowd. By nine you’ll be sharing it with a hundred people. For the first hour it’s yours, and that hour is how the whole route is built.
The ask
Four days in New York, usually a first visit, and the brief I get is always the same: a list of eleven things, two hours a day in traffic, and a fear of seeing the inside of a lot of queues. Good news. Pick a neighbourhood a day, walk between things, front-load every morning and leave half of every day unplanned, and four days is a far better trip than the list.
You’ve reached the quiet door.
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