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Woodbine St / Howard Ave

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I'm on my way down Woodbine St to Howard Ave into Brownsville: The trip started at the Myrtle-Wyckoff station that I've been to many times before. Then I had to shuffle over to Ridgewood Place, which runs parallel to Wyckoff because Woodbine Street starts at Ridgewood. Then I started down Woodbine. The little guy on the left below caught my attention, as did the tower of the Baptist Church. And then I made it to Broadway, which finishes the first leg of this trip. I finally made it to Broadway. The intersection looked familiar because I've been here before, except I turned right down Monroe Street that time. The architecture on that building caught my eye and I tried to get some photos despite the elevated train getting in the way. Also there's a picture of the little island where all these streets come togeth...

Argle, Rugby, Westminster, E10-7 Streets in West Midwood

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Finishing up one of the gaps left last summer when I was talking walks closer to home. Frankly, I never knew there was a "West" Midwood, but crazier than that, there is a "South Midwood" somewhat north of this. Go figure! One other thing that's crazy is that I've recorded videos that are for some reason recorded sideways, at a 90-degree angle, with no way of rotating them. This is the first time that I remember seeing one where the preview was upside-down. I don't know how I could've rotated the phone 180 degrees after pressing start. I was able to edit the video . Before I get started, as you can see from the map above, there are a lot of dead-end streets here. There are pictures of most of them. These cut-off streets are the reason this section hasn't been walked before. And at the end of those streets is a railway cut with a single track. It's not the Brighton Line, but rather the track that they want to use for the proposed In...