What's within 6 Blocks of you? - Page 3

bsummers12 · #21 06-30-2009, 05:37 AM

Farmland to the West and North. Hills to the East and a small community to the South.

CPT. Badmotherfarker · #22 06-30-2009, 05:53 AM

You can see my apartment in this pic:

CPT. Badmotherfarker · #23 06-30-2009, 05:57 AM

And to the right is Gordon Biersch, where I get my beer. I live in the building with the starbucks to the left.

me_rubin · #24 06-30-2009, 07:09 AM

For us guys who live out in the burbs, I think we need to expand or at least refine the definition of what exactly a city block is.

If you go to wikipedia you will see that
"Since the spacing of streets in grid plans varies so widely among cities, or even within cities, it is impossible to generalize about the size of a city block. However, as reference points, the standard block in Manhattan is about 264 by 900 feet (80 m × 274 m); and in some U.S. cities standard blocks are as wide as 660 feet (200 m). While for example, the city blocks in the central city grid of Melbourne, Australia are 200 by 100 metres (660 ft × 330 ft)."

I think for reference points, we use New York's city block size of 264x900 feet. Now taking the 900 foot and multiplying it by 5 we get 5400 feet or approximetly 1 mile.
So If we center your home and go 1 mile in each direction that should limit the boundaries of the search.

But to be fair, since the density of the suburbs is not what the city is I think the unit of measure of a "Block" needs to change. In New York for example, within 1 city block, the number of dwellings that exist on one block may be in excess of 20-30 and some of these blocks may be multi-family or apartments and thus establishes the liklyhood of finding something interesting to have near your home location. Given density as a multiplication factor, I think we establish the fact that since we use New York's definition of a block, we also use New York's definition of the density factor and in New York, there are 71,201 residents per square mile.

So now we can put everyone on equal terms.

My town is Herndon VA which has a population of 21,378 less than that of 1/3 of a city block in New York, with an area of just over 4 square miles. Now multiplying out the the area by the density, gives me an area of interest of 12 miles.

So. Now we can find something interesting....

So equating my area of interest in Herndon VA to the Area of interest to a new york city block. I now have this area to pick from.

So in this area, my two best places would be the.

Air & Space Museum.

And Great Falls Park.

CPT. Badmotherfarker · #25 06-30-2009, 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by me_rubin

For us guys who live out in the burbs, I think we need to expand or at least refine the definition of what exactly a city block is.

If you go to wikipedia you will see that
"Since the spacing of streets in grid plans varies so widely among cities, or even within cities, it is impossible to generalize about the size of a city block. However, as reference points, the standard block in Manhattan is about 264 by 900 feet (80 m × 274 m); and in some U.S. cities standard blocks are as wide as 660 feet (200 m). While for example, the city blocks in the central city grid of Melbourne, Australia are 200 by 100 metres (660 ft × 330 ft)."

I think for reference points, we use New York's city block size of 264x900 feet. Now taking the 900 foot and multiplying it by 5 we get 5400 feet or approximetly 1 mile.
So If we center your home and go 1 mile in each direction that should limit the boundaries of the search.

But to be fair, since the density of the suburbs is not what the city is I think the unit of measure of a "Block" needs to change. In New York for example, within 1 city block, the number of dwellings that exist on one block may be in excess of 20-30 and some of these blocks may be multi-family or apartments and thus establishes the liklyhood of finding something interesting to have near your home location. Given density as a multiplication factor, I think we establish the fact that since we use New York's definition of a block, we also use New York's definition of the density factor and in New York, there are 71,201 residents per square mile.

So now we can put everyone on equal terms.

My town is Herndon VA which has a population of 21,378 less than that of 1/3 of a city block in New York, with an area of just over 4 square miles. Now multiplying out the the area by the density, gives me an area of interest of 12 miles.

So. Now we can find something interesting....

So equating my area of interest in Herndon VA to the Area of interest to a new york city block. I now have this area to pick from.

So in this area, my two best places would be the.

Air & Space Museum.

And Great Falls Park.

You live just down the road from me. I bought some bar stools in Herndon just a few days ago.

**TSS Taylor** · #26 06-30-2009, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Oren

Fantastic post.

6 miles only.

There's supermarkets (at least 4, maybe 6), and TONS of restaurants. Sixty +?

Lots of gas stations, some churches, parks...

We're talking a 6-mile radius. (I wanted to talk about NYC, the most fantastic city on the globe, but it's out of the 6-mile range for me).

Thanks. It took some effort to take the pics. Those took about 2 hours to go take. I was pretty rough on the 6 blocks. It just felt I walked a half mile in each way.

**TSS Taylor** · #27 06-30-2009, 07:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by me_rubin

My town is Herndon VA which has a population of 21,378 less than that of 1/3 of a city block in New York, with an area of just over 4 square miles. Now multiplying out the the area by the density, gives me an area of interest of 12 miles.

So. Now we can find something interesting....

So equating my area of interest in Herndon VA to the Area of interest to a new york city block. I now have this area to pick from.

So in this area, my two best places would be the.

Air & Space Museum.

And Great Falls Park.

That park looks beautiful!

me_rubin · #28 06-30-2009, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by CPT. Badmotherfarker

You live just down the road from me. I bought some bar stools in Herndon just a few days ago.

Now I know who took the bar stool's at Jimmy's Tavern.

Oren · #29 06-30-2009, 11:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by me_rubin

For us guys who live out in the burbs, I think we need to expand or at least refine the definition of what exactly a city block is.

If you go to wikipedia you will see that
"Since the spacing of streets in grid plans varies so widely among cities, or even within cities, it is impossible to generalize about the size of a city block. However, as reference points, the standard block in Manhattan is about 264 by 900 feet (80 m × 274 m); and in some U.S. cities standard blocks are as wide as 660 feet (200 m). While for example, the city blocks in the central city grid of Melbourne, Australia are 200 by 100 metres (660 ft × 330 ft)."

I think for reference points, we use New York's city block size of 264x900 feet. Now taking the 900 foot and multiplying it by 5 we get 5400 feet or approximetly 1 mile.
So If we center your home and go 1 mile in each direction that should limit the boundaries of the search.

But to be fair, since the density of the suburbs is not what the city is I think the unit of measure of a "Block" needs to change. In New York for example, within 1 city block, the number of dwellings that exist on one block may be in excess of 20-30 and some of these blocks may be multi-family or apartments and thus establishes the liklyhood of finding something interesting to have near your home location. Given density as a multiplication factor, I think we establish the fact that since we use New York's definition of a block, we also use New York's definition of the density factor and in New York, there are 71,201 residents per square mile.

So now we can put everyone on equal terms.

My town is Herndon VA which has a population of 21,378 less than that of 1/3 of a city block in New York, with an area of just over 4 square miles. Now multiplying out the the area by the density, gives me an area of interest of 12 miles.

So. Now we can find something interesting....

So equating my area of interest in Herndon VA to the Area of interest to a new york city block. I now have this area to pick from.

So in this area, my two best places would be the.

Air & Space Museum.

And Great Falls Park.

That's true.

When I read "6 blocks" I thought "6 miles". I'm in a very suburban area, outside of NYC. It's very different. But I have to say I LOVE IT!

We live in a place where we aren't living with the commotion (we stay at our friends place in the heart of NYC all the time) and HERE, we don't deal with noises. While sleeping there (NYC), helicopters hovering for hours (news people), people screaming on the streets (after bars close), police sirens at all hours of the day and night (and early morning), cars horns, it goes on and on.

You get used to it. But I have to tell you that there is NOTHING like NYC ON THE GLOBE. It's a fantastic place, with tiny blocks.