Scavenger Hunt in New Mannahatta - Chapter 2
Chapter 2: City Biking
Scavenger Hunt in New Mannahatta takes place in a world where New Mannahatta, a theoretical in-fill project in lower Manhattan, is actually built.
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Without further ado, here’s Chapter 2: City Biking.
THE ALPHABET STREETS: THE SECRET GARDEN OF THE SOUTH
The Alphabet Streets of New Mannahatta run from Aster and Zinnia and are the city’s quietest cross-streets, forcing you to rethink what it means to be a city. The brownstones look historic but are actually carbon-negative with genetically enhanced trees to provide extra shade during those hot summer months.
We spent a whole weekend wandering from Birch to Hemlock in search of the best micro-bakeries hidden on the ground floors.
(TL,DR; the sourdough bagels at Photosynthesis on Elm Street are worth the wait in line.)
Kevin launched the bike rental app in split-screen on his phone. It started pulling his account information in the bottom window. The top window was the riddle app, which had a simple interface consisting of green text on a bird’s eye map.
I am an island no more, bridged by stone and rail.
“That’s governor’s island,” Kevin announced as he unlocked a bike and threw a leg around it. “The landfill project merged the northern tip to the new peninsula. The G-train extension tunnels right through the bedroom underneath. That’s literally stone and rail.”
