Walking routes · New York City, United States
Walking routes in New York City
Manhattan is a walking city in a way its reputation does not suggest: the grid above 14th Street makes distance legible, and twenty blocks is a mile almost exactly. What it is not is a city you walk end to end — both routes below use the subway where the alternative is an hour of nothing, and say so.
Battery Park up through Wall Street to the memorial, then across the bridge into DUMBO.
Battery Park to the Met by way of the memorial, the bridge, two observation decks, MoMA and Central Park. Eight kilometres on foot.
Planning the rest of the trip
These routes cover the walking. The New York City guide has where to stay, what a day costs at each tier, and what to book before you go.