The Black Table's Will Leitch walked from his job in Chelsea to his home in Inwood in three hours straight, including a jaunt through the Upper West Side: "Everything on the Upper West Side is a little too precious. There are little Italian-only bookstores, and ceramics bars, and stores selling only novelty strollers. I had barely been back to the Upper West Side since [my girlfriend and I] broke up, and I was reminded why; the Upper West Side makes you feel like you don t bathe often enough, like you re this swarthy minion swooping up from the city s underbelly, lurking in to sully their happy, lily-white pseudo-suburbia. The Upper West Side is a strip mall designed by The New Yorker." 200 Blocks in 2.5 Hours [Black Table]