NEW YORK—Living in the most walkable city in the country, perpetually in-motion New Yorkers probably walk more than anyone. But Matt Green, a man with no address, endeavors to walk 8,000 miles of New York City, purely for the sake of walking.
It is an attempt to see every inch of the city, and he had thought he would be done by now.
Five years ago, Green quit his job as an engineer, then his apartment lease ran out, and he threw the idea of a permanent residence out the window, moving from place to place, staying with friends here and there.
Six months later, he went on a cross-country trek from Rockaway Beach in Queens to Rockaway Beach in Oregon, relying on the kindness of strangers when he wasn’t camping out in the fields.
It felt like a vacation, Green said, but when he returned he wasn’t ready to stop walking. He decided he'd walk all the streets of New York City—streets that span about 6,000 miles, plus some extra mileage for repeated streets—just to walk it.
