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At the New Moynihan Train Hall, and the Zen of Going Nowhere

After slowly wandering around the Moynihan Train Hall, opened earlier this year in the James A. Farley Post Office Building across from Penn Station, an Amtrak worker approached me and asked if he could help with directions. “No,” I replied, “I’m just ...

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New York Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station, 350 W 33rd St, New York, NY 10001, USA

Walking Off the Big Apple

The website "Walking Off The Big Apple" is dedicated to exploring New York City through carefully curated walking tours, emphasizing the intersection of urban geography, history, and cultural landmarks. It offers detailed itineraries and maps that guide users through various neighborhoods, connecting architectural features, public art, and site-specific stories to broader socio-cultural developments in the city. The content reflects a scholarly approach to walking as a method of spatial inquiry, highlighting how the layered urban environment embodies historical narratives and ongoing cultural transformations. In addition to route descriptions, the site provides contextual essays that delve into the evolution of New York’s urban landscape, including discussions on urban planning, public space usage, and the symbolism embedded in street layouts and building designs. By framing walking as both an experiential and educational practice, the platform situates itself within the tradition of psychogeography and urban studies, allowing users to engage with the city’s geography beyond conventional tourist perspectives.

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Moynihan Train Hall

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Penn Station

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hybrid flaneur/flaneuse

Hybrid flaneur/flaneuse has become a performative “orchestrator” of steps and technologies – of sensory and emotional encounters. It is this oscillation between the poetic, the socio-technological, the geographical and the emotional that shifts the meaning of flanerie and walking in the 21st century. Hybrid flaneur/flaneuse can be also described in line with the cultural and aesthetic trajectories of the 20th century ambulatory practices. Therefore, a hybrid flaneur/flaneuse could be a creative merging of the romanticised view of early flaneur, the radical tactics and political implications of psychogeography and the performative/site-oriented elements of Fluxus and Land Art – all considered through a wide range of embodied media, social and geographical sensitivities.

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