Mapping New York's Hottest Jogging Routes

If you live in New York yet somehow value jogging in private, try heading to Bed-Stuy or Alphabet City. These 'hoods are virtually untrodden by the high-priced soles of runners, according to this dandy model that tracks jogging behavior.

Created by the techno-art dream team of Zach Lieberman, Emily Gobeille and Theo Watson, the visualization shows the most heavily trafficked routes for runners in the Manhattan-Brooklyn-Queens triangle (as well as Hoboken, if you must know where Daniel Pinkwater is sweating). In no surprise at all, the most popular paths are areas with water vistas or green spaces: Central Park, the shores of the Hudson and East River, the jagged series of docks jutting out from west Williamsburg. As the thick white lines spanning the black water demonstrate, New Yorkers also love padding across bridges – perhaps because some of them see bridges as the "mountains" of urban geography.