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As many of you may know, I spend my early mornings and weekends often pounding the pavement. Not selling real estate, though, but running through every neighborhood in New York City. This has taken me as far away as Coney Island, The shoreline of Staten Island, Westchester via the rails-to-trails in Van Cortlandt Park, SunnysideRead more

This entry seems to be an evergreen blog post idea at this point, but wow. A lot has happened in the past few months. My running partner and I had not been over the 59th Street bridge to Long Island City in some time, not since the NYC Marathon in November- when we were runningRead more

Second Avenue Subway Is Really Opening! This is a follow-up on what I had written earlier in the year about the L train, along with some new thoughts on the Second Avenue Subway. If you’ve not been on the East Side in the last couple of months, the future really is almost here. The subwayRead more

The US Open usually means two things: first, a heat wave surely will be upon New York City, and second, summer is over. This year, the US Open came and went with almost entirely pleasant weather, a shocker for August and early September. That the Mets in nearby Citi Field have been playing so poorlyRead more

It could be difficult to find a New Yorker who does not know a runner of last weekend’s Brooklyn Half Marathon. 40,000 runners took this 13.1 mile stroll through Prospect Park, then down Ocean Parkway to Coney Island. (I had some fun covering that course a bit in a recent post!) This year’s race enjoyedRead more