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Eastern Parkway

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Not long ago, I started walking past Fulton Street, with its A train, and made it to Eastern Parkway, which has the 3 train. It's only a few blocks farther and the IRT is more convenient as it goes to Barclays where I can transfer for other trains. I knew that at some point when the weather was nicer, I was going to walk the entire length of Eastern Parkway. The funny thing is that by the time I actually did this, I'd walked at least half of it already! But I still walked it end to end, and then around Grand Army Plaza to the train. Over four miles. Unfortunately, I had app problems so the first half or so didn't get recorded, but I have pictures of the route, so that's my "proof". As I said in the video, there is a one-block dead end street outside the cemetery, Vanderveer St. On the other side of Bushwick Ave from there is the start of Eastern Parkway, which runs southeast and then east for four miles. On many of my walks, the LIR...
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Brooklyn Heights

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I've walked many of the north-south blocks in Brooklyn Heights in the past year, and it was time to fill in the gap with the east-west streets. There was no avoiding a lot of backtracking because that's just how the streets are. The walk starts at the High Street train station at Henry Street, which leads me to Poplar. ("Poplar! I know about Pop-op-lar!..." or, maybe not.) Then along Willow to Middagh. Up to Henry and down Cranberry, back up Orange, and down Pineapple. I had to hit a couple of north-south blocks between Clark and Pierrepont. And, finally, Montague to the court house and a subway ride home. Pictures follow: Since I was down there anyway, of course, I got closer to the waterfront. I took some video, but not as many pictures. More back and forth: Google Maps doesn't say anything about the first building on Cranberry Street, but the second one is the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ch...
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