A Meandering Walk Uptown to Bryant Park

I recommend this walk to visitors. It's only 2.5 miles, and it takes in some famous sites - Union Square, Madison Square, the Flatiron Building, Bryant Park, the NYPL, Grand Central Terminal, but the few blocks on 23rd and up 6th Avenue afford a look at some great buildings while also offering a glimpse in the everyday workings of

The walk is also fine for residents needing a medium stroll to walk off last night's dinner. When I'm needing to walk off the Big Apple for any sort of reason, usually STRESS, my modus operandi is driven by the relative distance between two landmarks, for example, from Washington Square Park it's not far to Union Square, and from Union Square it's not that far to Madison Square Park, and from the park it's not that far to 42nd Street, and then 42nd is close to 59th and Central Park, and then, well, maybe the Met.
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While the initial impetus for the walk was vague, I am preparing a long themed walk for September, one that's been in the works for a long time. The area encompassed in this section of New York overlaps the fashionable New York of the mid-19th century. The novelist Edith Wharton was born at 14 W. 23rd Street. If you want to get a start on WOTBA's fall reading, this would be a good time to secure a copy of The House of Mirth. The novel begins in the month of September. The scene is Grand Central Station.
Images: Tropicana ESB, and a planter in Bryant Park (the Radiator Building/Bryant Park Hotel in the distance). More images of the walk at Flickr WOTBA.
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