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Walking route

A straight route (no return to the starting point) following the tag Literature and poetry with a length of approx 2 km
A route that starts at New York - Library Walk - Quote from "Discourse on the Method" by René Descartes | or click to the same route starting from . The nearest sign
The actual length of the route is: as the crow flies (and according to Google Maps: )

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1. The distances are in air lines, and do not take into account rivers, bridges, roads, so it is likely that the actual distance will be longer
For your convenience, a walking route that takes into account bridges, roads, etc. is presented in the following way (route according to Google Maps) Route according to Google Maps, a route that can be parallel to an aerial route aerial route
Distances preceded by the sign are real distances (according to Google Maps), the other distances are distances according to as the crow flies.
2. Clicking on the picture of the sign will open the sign page on the website (in a separate window). Clicking on the line (or hover), will highlight the station on the attached map.
3. Click on to get walking instructions from your current location to station number N
  • 1 New York - Library Walk - Quote from "Discourse on the Method" by René Descartes
    19 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 0 Meter (), Direction:  0°
    Cumulative distance: 0 Meter ()
  • 2 New York - Library Walk -Richard Eberhart’s poet "Reading Room: The New York Public Library"
    19 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 4 Meter (), Direction:  37°
    Cumulative distance: 4 Meter ()
  • 3 New York - Library Walk - A quote from Isak Dinesen’s book "Shadows on the Grass"
    19 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 9 Meter (), Direction:  211°
    Cumulative distance: 13 Meter ()
  • 4 New York - Library Walk - A quote from Garson Kanin’s play "Born Yesterday"
    19 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 6 Meter (), Direction:  143°
    Cumulative distance: 19 Meter ()
  • 5 New York - Library Walk -A verse from Wallace Stevens’ song "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
    19 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 4 Meter (), Direction:  106°
    Cumulative distance: 23 Meter ()
  • 6 New York - Library Walk - Quote from Virginia Woolf’s "Leaning Tower"
    10 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 10 Meter (), Direction:  199°
    Cumulative distance: 33 Meter ()
  • 7 New York - Library Walk - The first verse from John Greenleaf Whittier’s song "Proem"
    10 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 4 Meter (), Direction:  0°
    Cumulative distance: 36 Meter ()
  • 8 New York - Library Walk - "Why some people be mad at me sometimes" a song by Lucille Clifton
    22 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 6 Meter (), Direction:  117°
    Cumulative distance: 42 Meter ()
  • 9 New York - Library Walk - Quote from "Picasso on Art: A Selection of Views" by Pablo Picasso
    22 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 3 Meter (), Direction:  111°
    Cumulative distance: 45 Meter ()
  • 10 New York - Library Walk - "1212" a song by Emily Dickinson
    24 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 2 Meter (), Direction:  109°
    Cumulative distance: 46 Meter ()
  • 11 New York - Library Walk - Quote from John Milton’s speech - Areopagitica
    24 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 6 Meter (), Direction:  70°
    Cumulative distance: 53 Meter ()
  • 12 New York - Library Walk - Two verses from Yeats’ Poem "When You are Old"
    24 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 9 Meter (), Direction:  81°
    Cumulative distance: 62 Meter ()
  • 13 New York - Library Walk - A verse from Gwendolyn Brooks’ song "Song of Winnie"
    24 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 4 Meter (), Direction:  345°
    Cumulative distance: 66 Meter ()
  • 14 New York - Library Walk - Quote from Elwyn Brooks White’s letter to James Thurber
    10 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 32 Meter (), Direction:  270°
    Cumulative distance: 98 Meter ()
  • 15 New York - Library Walk - Quote from "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
    9 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 21 Meter (), Direction:  356°
    Cumulative distance: 119 Meter ()
  • 16 New York - Library Walk - Quote from "Sesame and Lilies" by John Ruskin
    9 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 3 Meter (), Direction:  32°
    Cumulative distance: 122 Meter ()
  • 17 New York - Library Walk - Quote from "Old Newsman Writes" by Ernest Hemingway
    9 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 9 Meter (), Direction:  270°
    Cumulative distance: 131 Meter ()
  • 18 New York - Library Walk - A quote from Francis Bacon’s book "Of Studies"
    18 E 41st St #1503, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 10 Meter (), Direction:  285°
    Cumulative distance: 141 Meter ()
  • 19 New York - Library Walk - A quote from Alfred Kazin’s book "New York Jew"
    18 E 41st St #1503, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 1 Meter (), Direction:  291°
    Cumulative distance: 142 Meter ()
  • 20 New York - Library Walk - A quote from Mark Twain’s book "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’"
    18 E 41st St #1503, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 1 Meter (), Direction:  302°
    Cumulative distance: 142 Meter ()
  • 21 New York - Library Walk-Quote from Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Yancy freedom of the press
    9 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 4 Meter (), Direction:  344°
    Cumulative distance: 146 Meter ()
  • 22 New York - Library Walk -A verse from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s song "The Day is Done"
    14 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 9 Meter (), Direction:  222°
    Cumulative distance: 155 Meter ()
  • 23 New York - Library Walk-Quote from Gertrude Stein’s book "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"
    7 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 12 Meter (), Direction:  275°
    Cumulative distance: 167 Meter ()
  • 24 New York - Library Walk - Quote from "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius
    2-22 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 4 Meter (), Direction:  270°
    Cumulative distance: 170 Meter ()
  • 25 New York - Library Walk - A quote from Tom Stoppard’s play "Night and Day"
    7 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 6 Meter (), Direction:  28°
    Cumulative distance: 176 Meter ()
  • 26 New York - Library Walk - Quote from "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail" by Lawrence and Lee
    7 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 13 Meter (), Direction:  351°
    Cumulative distance: 189 Meter ()
  • 27 New York - Library Walk - Quote from "33" by Julia Alvarez
    7 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 4 Meter (), Direction:  30°
    Cumulative distance: 192 Meter ()
  • 28 New York - Library Walk - Excerpts from the song "Library Scene" by Robert Pinski
    7 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 7 Meter (), Direction:  257°
    Cumulative distance: 200 Meter ()
  • 29 New York - Library Walk - Quote from the book "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll
    479 5th Ave, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 11 Meter (), Direction:  337°
    Cumulative distance: 210 Meter ()
  • 30 New York - Library Walk - Quote from the book "O Pioneers!" by Willa Cather
    379 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 9 Meter (), Direction:  273°
    Cumulative distance: 219 Meter ()
  • 31 New York - Library Walk - Quote from "The Plague" by Albert Camus
    379 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 1 Meter (), Direction:  300°
    Cumulative distance: 221 Meter ()
  • 32 New York - Library Walk - Excerpt from "In My Craft or Sullen Art" by Dylan Thomas
    485 5th Ave, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 2 Meter (), Direction:  317°
    Cumulative distance: 223 Meter ()
  • 33 New York - Library Walk - Quote from Jorge Luis Borges’ "Compass"
    2-22 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 8 Meter (), Direction:  156°
    Cumulative distance: 231 Meter ()
  • 34 New York - Library Walk - Quote from Muriel Rukeyser’s Poem: The Speed of Darkness
    379 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 1 Meter (), Direction:  0°
    Cumulative distance: 232 Meter ()
  • 35 New York - Library Walk - Quote by William Styron
    2-22 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 14 Meter (), Direction:  268°
    Cumulative distance: 246 Meter ()
  • 36 New York - Library Walk - Gu Cheng song: Forever Parted: Graveyard
    481 5th Ave, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 18 Meter (), Direction:  3°
    Cumulative distance: 264 Meter ()
  • 37 New York - Library Walk - William Carlos Williams song: Poem
    511 5th Ave, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 11 Meter (), Direction:  318°
    Cumulative distance: 275 Meter ()
  • 38 New York - Library Walk - Quote from "The Mind is an Enchanting Thing" by Marianne Moore
    511 5th Ave, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 6 Meter (), Direction:  270°
    Cumulative distance: 280 Meter ()
  • 39 New York - Library Walk - About the Project
    5 Avenue & West 42 Street, New York, NY 10018, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 6 Meter (), Direction:  223°
    Cumulative distance: 287 Meter ()
  • 40 New York - Library Walk - On the advantage of knowing different types of literature
    476 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 4 Meter (), Direction:  158°
    Cumulative distance: 291 Meter ()
  • 41 New York - Library Walk - Quote from Too Loud a Solitude
    511 5th Ave, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 3 Meter (), Direction:  102°
    Cumulative distance: 294 Meter ()
  • 42 New York - Library Walk - Quote from "The day and the night" by Georges Braque
    2-22 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 45 Meter (), Direction:  130°
    Cumulative distance: 339 Meter ()
  • 43 New York - Library Walk - Langston Hughes song: Words Like Freedom
    18 E 41st St #1503, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 51 Meter (), Direction:  81°
    Cumulative distance: 391 Meter ()
  • 44 New York - Library Walk - Quote from Samuel Beckett’s play "Waiting for Godot"
    30-98 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 102 Meter (), Direction:  121°
    Cumulative distance: 493 Meter ()
  • 45 New York - Library Walk - Quote from the book Walden by Henry David Thoreau
    45 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 40 Meter (), Direction:  117°
    Cumulative distance: 532 Meter ()
  • 46 New York - Chelsea Hotel - Poet Brendan Behan
    222 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011, USA
    The distance from the previous station: 1.7 Km (), Direction:  247°
    Cumulative distance: 2.24 Km ()

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