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How walkable is your neighborhood?
Just type your address (or any address, for that matter) into Walkscore and the service will go to work finding all the grocery stores, restaurants, coffee shops, bars, movie theaters, parks, libraries, bookstores, and drugstores it can using Google Maps. When it's done searching, Walkscore will spit out a walkability score on a scale of 1 to 100.
Although we believe that Download Squad Brooklyn office is in a terrific neighborhood, it received a score of just 74 points. We blame tha ton the fact that the nearest movie theater is shockingly nearly 2 miles away. Still, this knocks the socks off of a Princeton, NJ address we tried that got a walkability score of 24.
Walkscore could come in handy if you're thinking of moving, or if you just want to find out which amenities in your neighborhood you've been missing out on.
[via Neatorama]
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Racetrack_Owner said 1:10PM on 7-21-2007
8:54am and the site is down...
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grant said 9:12AM on 7-22-2007
My address wasn't even found. So I get what, a zero? And you think 74 is bad...
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grant said 4:00PM on 7-31-2007
Ha ha, my address wasn't even found. And you think 74 is bad...
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k said 8:19AM on 7-23-2007
of the people who could get a walk score, i got a 7
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Rob said 8:19AM on 7-23-2007
WooHoo! I scored a 2.
This is like golf right?
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Janice said 5:03PM on 7-24-2007
I got a 0, closest anything is nearly 4 miles. But then I like living out in the country...
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ayman hussien said 9:49AM on 10-07-2007
fedw
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