Today I walked about 8 miles down 8th Avenue, which is also called Central Park West and Fredrick Douglass Boulevard.

8th Avenue runs from about 160th St. in Harlem to W 12th St. in the West Village. It's known as Central Park West between 59th St. and 110th St. and Frederick Douglass Blvd. north of 110th St.

At it's north end, 8th Avenue starts next to the former location of the Polo Grounds stadium, which was the home of the New York Giants baseball team from 1891 - 1957 and the New York Giants football team from 1925 - 1955. It was demolished in 1964 (they painted the wrecking ball to look like a baseball) after the baseball Giants moved to San Francisco and replaced with the Polo Grounds Towers, a 15 acre / 1,600 apartment public housing complex.

From there, 8th Avenue runs through Harlem to the Upper West Side, where it runs down the west border of Central Park and along one of the most expensive row of apartments (co-ops, really) in the city. Central Park West is home to a number of famous people and America's first automobile fatality (in 1899 a taxi ran over a man exiting a street car at 74th and Central Park West).

Below Central Park, 8th Avenue runs along the western side of Times Square and the theater district (think Sbarros and gift shops), through Chelsea and into Greenwich Village, where it ends at Abingdon Square Park.

Start of Walk

Frederick Douglass Blvd. at Harlem River

Public School 46

Frederick Douglass Blvd. btw 155th St. and Harlem River

Polo Grounds Towers

Frederick Douglass Blvd. btw 155th St. and Harlem River

Polo Grounds Towers public housing projects

Frederick Douglass Blvd. btw 155th St. and Harlem River

Harlem apartments

Frederick Douglass Blvd. btw 152nd St. and 151st. St.

View north on Frederick Douglass Blvd.

Frederick Douglass Blvd. btw 145th St. and 144th St.

The Bradhurst at Strivers Row

Frederick Douglass Blvd. btw 140th St. and 139th St.

Garages behind Strivers Row

Frederick Douglass Blvd. btw 139th St. and 138th St.

View down Frederick Douglass Blvd.

Frederick Douglass Blvd. btw 135th St. and 134th St.

He'll get it back in April

Frederick Douglass Blvd. btw 135th St. and 134th St.

First Ebenezer Baptist Church

Frederick Douglass Blvd. btw 133rd St. and 132nd St.

I just thought this looked cool

Frederick Douglass Blvd. btw 128th. and 127th St.

Greater Zion Baptist Church

Frederick Douglass Blvd. btw 128th. and 127th St.

"Spirit of Harlem"

Frederick Douglass Blvd. btw 125th. and 124th St.

New building

Frederick Douglass Blvd. btw 114th. and 113th St.

Frederick Douglass statue

Frederick Douglass Blvd. at 110th St.

View of Frederick Douglass looking north on Frederick Douglass Blvd.

Frederick Douglass Blvd. at 110th St.

Beginning of Central Park West apartment buildings

Central Park West btw 109th St. and 108th St.

Cool window ornamentation

Central Park West btw 109th St. and 108th St.

View into Central Park

Central Park West btw 109th St. and 108th St.

Basement Deli

Central Park West btw 108th St. and 107th St.

Central Park rocks

Central Park West btw 107th St. and 106th St.

Former New York Cancer Hospital (b. 1887)

Central Park West btw 107th St. and 106th St.

The hospital moved to the UES in 1939 (now Sloan Kettering)

Central Park West btw 106th St. and 105th St.

Today it's luxury condos (and supposedly haunted)

Central Park West btw 106th St. and 105th St.

Drinking Water Sampling Station

Central Park West btw 106th St. and 105th St.

Apartment building

Central Park West btw 105th St. and 104th St.

Pelican statues

Central Park West btw 105th St. and 104th St.

Rock outcrop

Central Park West btw 104th St. and 103rd St.

Central Park

Central Park West btw 104th St. and 103rd St.

Beautiful apartment building

Central Park West btw 102nd St. and 101st St.

Cool gargoyle

Central Park West btw 102nd St. and 101st St.

Central Park path

Central Park West btw 100th St. and 97th St.

Church (b. 1903)

Central Park West btw 97th St. and 96th St.

CPW Apartments

Central Park West btw 93rd St. and 92nd St.

Apartments

Central Park West btw 93rd St. and 92nd St.

Cool patterns

Central Park West btw 92nd St. and 91st St.

El Dorado

Central Park West btw 90th St. and 89th St.

The Dwight School

Central Park West btw 89th St. and 88th St.

Classy Entrance

Central Park West btw 89th St. and 88th St.

Apartments

Central Park West btw 89th St. and 88th St.

More apartments

Central Park West btw 89th St. and 88th St.

Three cool row homes

Central Park West btw 86th St. and 85th St.

View up Central Park West

Central Park West btw 83rd St. and 82nd St.

The Beresford

Central Park West btw 82nd St. and 81st St.

American Museum of Natural History

Central Park West btw 81st St. and 77th St.

Lions

Central Park West btw 81st St. and 77th St.

Teddy Roosevelt

Central Park West btw 81st St. and 77th St.

New York Historical Society

Central Park West btw 81st St. and 77th St.

Another apartment building

Central Park West btw 77th St. and 76th St.

San Remo

Central Park West btw 74th St. and 73rd St.

The Dakota

Central Park West btw 73rd St. and 72nd St.

Creepy detail on the Dakota

Central Park West btw 73rd St. and 72nd St.

More cool CPW buildings

Central Park West btw 70th St. and 69th St.

View of Midtown through Central Park

Central Park West btw 66th St. and 65th St.

"Spook Central" from Ghostbusters

Central Park West btw 66th St. and 65th St.

This is the church the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man steps on

Central Park West btw 66th St. and 65th St.

Cool window boxes

Central Park West btw 62nd St. and 61st St.

The Century

Central Park West btw 62nd St. and 61st St.

Central Park bridge

Central Park West btw 61st St. and 60th St.

USS Maine Memorial

8th Ave. at 59th St.

Columbus Circle

8th Ave. at 59th St.

Unfortunately, this is the warmest it's been in a while

8th Ave. at 59th St.

Columbus memorial

8th Ave. at 59th St.

Christopher Columbus

8th Ave. at 59th St.

Steam

8th Ave. btw 58th St. and 57th St.

Hearst Tower

8th Ave. btw 57th St. and 56th St.

View up 8th Avenue

8th Ave. btw 48th St. and 47th St.

Painted Building

Madison Square Garden / Penn Station

8th Ave. btw 35th St. and 34th St.

Big Post Office

8th Ave. btw 33rd St. and 31st St.

View up 8th Avenue

8th Ave. btw 33rd St. and 31st St.

Cool old building

8th Ave. btw 25th St. and 24th St.

Neat penthouse

8th Ave. btw 19th St. and 18th St.

Chelsea

8th Ave. btw 19th St. and 18th St.

Awesome Winslow Homer rip-off

8th Ave. btw 16th St. and 15th St.

Cool building

8th Ave. btw 14th St. and 13th St.

View up 8th Avenue

8th Ave. btw 14th St. and 13th St.

Abingdon Square Doughboy

8th Ave. btw 12th St. and Bleeker St.