Pedestrian
Alex WolfeReflections on cities, memory, impermanence, and the overlooked corners of elsewhere, told through long walks.
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Pedestrian 49: Ten Years in New York
Last month marked ten years of living in New York City. A decade. Almost a third of my life. I celebrated, of course, by going on a walk.
I started the day with an hour-long train ride to Fresh Pond Road in Ridgewood, Queens. The cold was...
Pedestrian 48: I Remember, 2025
Mission Dolores Park, San Francisco, November 2025
On the first day of class, I like to start with an exercise based on Joe Brainard’s book, I Remember. Most of my students aren’t consistent writers yet and might have trouble getting start...
Pedestrian 47: A Dream Walk in The New York Times
Photo by Tom Wilson.
I’m proud to share my first story in The New York Times: New York Is Planning a Train Line to Connect Its Transit Deserts. We Walked All 14 Miles of It.
This project was the idea of my good friend Tom Wilson, who invi...
Pedestrian 46: Beautiful Day
“Chris”
I’m currently working on my first novel, tentatively titled Repeater. I never meant to write a novel. The project began as a collection of photographs taken over the last five years of walking. Then I started adding vignettes, and...
Pedestrian 45: I Am Alive
A Chicago junk store, 2015.
A few days before I turned thirty-three, my dad gave me a call. He was starting a will with my mother.
He wasn’t worried about dividing their belongings among my brothers and me. It was all the stuff he hadn’t...
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Iowa born writer living in Brooklyn, NY. I write about walking, cities, people, impermanence, memory, and attention, among other things. I’m currently working on my first novel titled Repeater.
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