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Can somebody share a better measurement than "18 blocks" for the rest of the world?
18 blocks in NYC is approximately 1.5 km to the rest of the world.
That is literally 15 minutes lol. But hes a ceo so thats why a 15 minute walk is so hard for him.
Last I checked, NYC had lots of taxis so he wouldn't have to hurt his precious feet by walking any further than outside of his luxury building and telling his doorman to hail him one.
5' or less by bike
after reading that he lives on a one way that takes him farther away before he can take a turn to go towards his kids, he probably drives for longer than 15 minutes 🤦
A block can vary, but in a city like NY a safe estimate is 0.1 mile per block. So 18 blocks is something like 1.8 miles or 2-3 km.
It's you-shoud-probaby-walk-this-distance-for-your-health walking distance.
He's less than a block from the N R W line too. Such an inconvenience.
A "block" is not a fixed measurement, it is the distance between cross streets in a grid. They have blocks in Europe and people definitely understand the concept in my experience.
I understand the concept of a block (even if they don't really exist in my city), but that doesn't really give me an idea of the actual distance, so it's a pretty useless information to me. Using proper standard metrics makes much more sense.
Its also significantly worse for Manhattan because depending on if you turn 90 degrees its like 4.5 times the distance.
North South blocks in Manhattan are fairly uniform, and a standard measurement there. Just hard to get across to someone that doesn't know