{"id":1372,"date":"2006-12-06T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T19:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2006-12-06T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T19:45:48","slug":"walking-from-jfk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/12\/06\/walking-from-jfk\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking from JFK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics10.nytimes.com\/images\/2006\/12\/05\/arts\/06walk190.jpg\" \/>In today&#8217;s New York Times there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/06\/books\/06walk.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">an article<\/a> on a walk English author Will Self took from JFK into Manhatten. It took him six hours. Self is a noted walker, and goes on epic hikes in London, and sometimes writes about them in his <a href=\"http:\/\/comment.independent.co.uk\/columnists_m_z\/will_self\/\">psychogeography column<\/a> in The Independent newspaper. As for this walk, the Times writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By Mr. Self&#8217;s usual standards, the walk from Kennedy to Manhattan, about 20 miles, is a mere stroll. What recommended it was that it would take him through parts of the city that most people never notice while driving in a car: an experience that Mr. Self, a student of psycho-geography, believes has imposed a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153windscreen-based virtuality\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on travel, cutting us off from experiencing our own topography.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153People don&#8217;t know where they are anymore, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 he said, adding: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In the post-industrial age, this is the only form of real exploration left. Anyone can go and see the Ituri pygmy, but how many people have walked all the way from the airport to the city?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article also mentions that walking on foot to the airport is a treacherous thing, as it involves walking on freeway on-and-off ramps. <a href=\"http:\/\/psychogeography.ca\/\">We<\/a> have thought about walking to Pearson before, but not sure if it&#8217;s even possible without going onto freeway-like roads with no sidewalk. The closest I&#8217;ve come to doing this was riding my bike from downtown out to the airport a few years ago. I ended up on Dixie road, along the back of the airport (where the planes fly over extremely low) and circling around the top (where I saw Brampton Transit buses that caused me to fear that I had rode too far for my own good). Along Airport Road, there aren&#8217;t any noticeable entrances that <em>look right<\/em> for biking or walking. It&#8217;s strange to think of such a busy and populated place being somewhat hard or illegal to get to by foot.<\/p>\n<p>The map and slide show for Will Self&#8217;s NYC walk (links on the Times site) show a side of that city that isn&#8217;t so sparklely pretty, one that had him looking forward to the &#8220;Brooklyn Bridge [where] we&#8217;ll hear the skirl of the Gershwin clarinets, and we&#8217;ll believe in the dream of possibility once again.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In fact, those pictures look a little like some of the unpretty, lowrise parts of Toronto&#8217;s inner suburbs, which are some of the best places to walk around in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s New York Times there is an article on a walk English author Will Self took from JFK into Manhatten. It took him six hours. Self is a noted walker, and goes on epic hikes in London, and sometimes writes about them in his psychogeography column in The Independent newspaper. As for this walk,<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/12\/06\/walking-from-jfk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Walking from JFK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[379,1214,359,1228,4068,21,3436,2084,19,4069],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walking","tag-author","tag-brooklyn-bridge","tag-london","tag-new-york-times","tag-noted-walker","tag-other-cities","tag-pearson","tag-the-times","tag-toronto","tag-will-self"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Walking from JFK - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/12\/06\/walking-from-jfk\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Walking from JFK - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In today&#8217;s New York Times there is an article on a walk English author Will Self took from JFK into Manhatten. 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