The Toilet Paper-Toting Flaneur

You could lazily view the city from the comfort of your computer or you could actually get out there and do it yourself. Wish them good luck and god speed:

Remember Matt Green and Don Badaczewski, those two guys who last August broke the record for circumnavigating the city by subway?

Well, Green is back — with a new teammate, college buddy Rob Moncure — for another urban adventure: a five-day, 150-mile walk across the city. That’s 30 miles of pavement, or roughly 10 hours of trekking, a day, starting Monday on Staten Island.

“We’re most worried about how our feet and knees are going to hold up, rather than being concerned about our cardio-vascular health,” said Green, 27, a transportation engineer living in Bay Ridge. “We’re going to wear sneakers. We were considering hiking boots because they’re waterproof, but we just want to wear what’s most lightweight.”

They will have plenty of moleskin for blisters and extra pairs of socks. They’ll also stock up on underwear and an emergency roll of toilet paper, Green explained.

They won’t be carrying much in the way of food, because walking is not all the duo expects to do. They have a quirky checklist, too, that includes eating “as much ethnic cuisine as we can,” Green said.

Other items on the checklist: ride a camel (Bronx Zoo), “go to a hipster bar without looking or acting hip,” perform music on a subway platform, go fishing (Central Park rents rods, Green said) and go swimming on top of a sewage treatment plant (Riverbank State Park on 145th Street). On Staten Island, they plan to scale Todt Hill (elevation 410 feet), the highest natural point in the city.