New York, New York

Newburgh	Danbury, Connecticut	Hartford, Connecticut
Newark, New Jersey	New York	Brookhaven
Atlantic City, New Jersey	39,-73	39,-72
Today's location: not yet announced

The New York City graticule is at latitude 40, longitude -73. It includes most of New York City (minus Staten Island, the west tip of Brooklyn, the West Village & Chelsea and downtown Manhattan) and a whole hell of a lot of Long Island. That means about 10 million potential geohashers in this graticule. Sigh, if only our graticule were not mostly sea water... On the bright side, non-preppies can now visit the Greenwich, CT islands in this graticule via Metro North and ferry.

Today's Location: [New York, NY]

There is a facebook group for New York, NY geohashers. https://www.facebook.com/groups/19859510038

Successful geohashes

2017-06-23 - OtherJack reached a sweet spot under the Brooklyn Bridge, but paid for it when he tried to get the pub achievement afterward.

2017-06-07 - Sputnik and OtherJack met up at the Manhattan School of Music, an incredibly easy 5 minute walk from Jack's daily routine.

2017-05-21 - Sputnik went to Prospect Park. (Details coming?)

2016-12-01 - OtherJack was carried by the west wind (aboard his bike) to a sidewalk in Schuylerville, Bronx.

2016-08-09 - Elipongo biked to a tomato garden in Pelham Gardens, in the Bronx. He remains the only consecutive-geohasher in our graticule.

2016-08-08 - Elipongo biked to a wooded lakeshore in Central Park. Then OtherJack, Sputnik, Crox, Tingting, and Elisa all converged on it at once! Largest ever meetup in this graticule.

2016-07-02 - OtherJack biked to Inwood Hill Park at the north tip of Manhattan. Sputnik took the bus and subway, then walked to the park.

2016-06-04 - OtherJack biked to Coney Island and then strolled to the coastal spot.

2016-05-16 - Elipongo got very close to, and OtherJack reached, the backyard of a building in Wakefield (North Bronx).

2016-04-06 - OtherJack took the subway to St. John's University out near Jamaica at night.

2016-03-20 - OtherJack took the LIRR out to Inwood, in Long Island next to Far Rockaway.

2016-03-15 - in Central Park! Jevanyn and OtherJack made it at various times.

2015-09-20 - OtherJack took *another* speeding Metro-North train straight through the hash point in the Bronx.

2015-08-22 - OtherJack finally made it (a stone's throw) into Long Island, in South Valley Stream.

2015-08-13 - OtherJack strolled through a big intersection in Flushing. Then Elipongo drove an ambulance through it!!

2015-07-11 - OtherJack and a friend found the back entrance of a suburban apartment complex in Queens.

2015-06-20 - Elipongo took the subway to the South Bronx in time for a midnight-hash. (OtherJack met him there, but too late.)

2015-04-16 - OtherJack took a speeding Metro-North train straight through the circle of error in Bronxville Mt. Vernon.

2015-03-01 - OtherJack went up a hill in the snow in Hastings-on-Hudson.

2015-02-08 - Elipongo, OtherJack and sempaispellcheck took various subways and buses to Astoria where they witnessed the front of a small apartment building.

2014-09-27 - Danatar went to the Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens.

2013-12-07 & 2013-12-08 - Elipongo rode the New York City Subway to get to both locations in the Bronx within the space of an hour!

2013-11-14 - Elipongo rode his bicycle eight miles to this hash.

2013-05-18 - Million zillion dragged-along his sister and her fiance to this hashpoint in Brookville while visiting relatives in Roslyn.

2013-03-18 - Sempaispellcheck reached this one too.

2012-05-26 - Sempaispellcheck took the train to this hash.

2012-03-18 - Sempaispellcheck took the LIRR to Smithtown, then walked 2.2 miles to reach this geohash on the North Shore of Long Island, his first geohash ever.

2009-06-05 - Jevanyn got a second chance at this graticule, this time on the Palisades Parkway.

2009-04-03 - Captin Shmit walked a half hour to this geohash.

2009-02-26 - Brandon took the subway to this graticule's first geohash. About time!

Unsuccessful geohashes

2016-02-26 - OtherJack got inside a hospital in Brooklyn, but the point was locked away.

2009-06-04 - Jevanyn hiked along the tracks to almost reach this geohash in Haworth.

2009-05-07 - User:JuneO visits the nearest land point to a water geohash.

2008-12-01 - Sentodude attempted to reach the hash, but there was no public access.

Local Geohashers

• Sputnik has been in Manhattan since August 2014 but did not manage to make any expeditions until July 2016. Is limited to areas reachable by the MTA, so cannot hash as often as I'd like.
• OtherJack just moved here (Dec 2014.) Interested in meetups and hashpoints here as well as in the graticules immediately north and west. Especially on weekends (or weekday evenings if easy enough.) No car, but transit-friendly and should have my bike soon.
• Jevanyn is in the city once or twice a year, and may try to join a Saturday meetup.
• Sempaispellcheck does not have a car and is very busy, but will try to geohash whenever possible.
• Elipongo can bicycle, walk, take transit, or even his ambulance at work to geohashes; except for on Saturdays because of Shabbos.

Inactive Geohashers

• Brandon lived in the corner of Manhattan which falls in 40, -74 and had a few successful geohashing days in 2009.
• Captin Shmit went to one expedition in 2009.
• Joe went on one expedition in 2008.
• NCommander was last seen in 2012.
• No expeditions were done by Oleo, Barney, Patrick, Zach, Dan, Caroline, Andrew, Jessi, Andrew L, MattPeck, Harris, Marco, Shannon, HeadKase, phil_s_stein, Ryelle, Rob G, Mike, Moare, BlastOButter42, Defrancoj, Drake(aka Warior916)

Issues

This seems to be one instance where the incredibly cool XKCD geohashing scheme fails. Many New Yorkers located in the city do not have cars due to the availability of public transportation and the lack of space to park said car. Because of this, people are disinclined to take the train out to Long Island.

• This could be solved by congregating at or near the closest train (LIRR, MTA, Metro North) station when hashes occur in generally unreachable locations.
• Another possible solution would be to use a Half-graticule algorithm to increase the chances of land-based geohashes.
• A solution for geohashpoints in the ocean could be to determine the nearest coast-point from a geohashed point. Ryelle wrote a script called CoastSeeker back in the day, but it is no longer working.