Thirty-nine step streets, climbed in a single day, from Manhattan Valley to Kingsbridge.
There are stairs built into the streets of New York. Not stoops, not subway stairs, but official streets the city gave up paving and turned into staircases, because the land was simply too steep to do anything else.
Thirty-nine of them, strung mostly along the ridge that climbs the western edge of Manhattan and carries on into the Bronx. The plan is to walk all of them in one day. Start in Manhattan Valley at first light, head north, and never take a staircase going down. Cross three old bridges. Climb something like three and a half thousand steps. End at a pub in Kingsbridge with cold drinks and whoever cares to meet us there.1
It is July, which is the wrong month for this, and that is part of the point. A good walk should cost something.
Figures approximate until the day is walked.