Junius Street In February!

First someone walks every street in Manhattan, now a man sets out to jog every street in Brooklyn:

Brand new Brooklynite Gary Jarvis plans to jog all 1,599 miles of Kings County in the next two years — and document it on his Web site, Runsbrooklyn.blogspot.com.

“It’s an absolutely fantastic way to get to know the place,” said Jarvis, a former New Jersey telephone repairman who runs about 30 miles a week.

Jarvis’ mission began June 20 when he moved into his girlfriend’s Park Slope pad after 10 years in Iowa City, where he studied history at the University of Iowa.

While in Iowa, the avid marathon runner made a pact to jog the college town’s 230 miles but neglected to chronicle the undertaking and the landmarks he discovered along the way.

That won’t happen again, he said.

Each jog will culminate with Jarvis heading home and mapping his route, which he said will be chosen on a whim each morning when he heads out the door. He’ll post the routes and his observations on the Web later in the day.

“Most people just kind of stick to their own neighborhoods,” said Jarvis, who is moving into a new apartment in Greenpoint next month. “It may sound naive to New Yorkers but to me it just sounded like a great idea.”

Jarvis has already clocked about 45 miles in parts of Crown Heights, Flatbush, Greenwood Heights, Kensington, Midwood, Park Slope, and Sunset Park. He has also seen some of the borough’s best-known landmarks, such as the Williamsburgh Savings Bank building, Green-Wood Cemetery and St. Michael’s Catholic Church.

As for Brooklyn’s 4,440 acres of parkland, Jarvis has already circled the perimeter of Prospect Park and plans to duck inside the borough’s other pastures along the way.

“As long as pedestrians are allowed, I’m going to do it,” said Jarvis, who tends to jog alone. “Obviously, I won’t be jogging the BQE, the Gowanus or the Belt, but everything else is fair game.”

7/8 update: Hey, he’s already been to Junius Street! Props to the running guy!