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k1lk1 t1_ir7f7ca wrote

That sounds great - I do these kinds of walks all the time and it's cool you did this. There are a lot of similar walks in Manhattan and Brooklyn, but there's probably no 8 miles in the city that you're going to get as widely varied of cultures as where you did it in Queens.

My advice for the next one is go multimodal, take the ferry down to Bay Ridge and then walk north through Sunset Park, Park Slope and up to DUMBO

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Top_Relationship_399 t1_ir9bf7i wrote

Only if you stay in one borough.

You can see the same mix walking from anywhere close to midtown Manhattan through to Prospect Leffert gardens. And if you started in Harlem? The history!

Except on this walk you’ll also get Little Caribbean and the Hasidic community (if taking the Williamsburg Bridge, the most pedestrian of the pedestrian bridges.) It’s also a toss-up on which avenue to take to get through 50th down to 20th. I used to pick a new avenue each time I’d do the walk from Manhattan to Brooklyn.

I can name a few walks in the Bronx (where the traffic would be sketchy) too.

Definitely going to look into Queens routes now - thanks to the OP!

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pizzawolves t1_ira64or wrote

+1000 for the bay ridge > sunset > park slope walk, three wonderful and different neighborhoods all worth exploring

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GlitteringHighway t1_ira6daq wrote

There’s great loop from Greenpoint to LIC via Pulaski Bridge. Then LIC to midtown via 59th Street Bridge, once in Manhattan, go down to the Williamsburg Bridge and back to Williamsburg/Greenpoint.

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