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Downtown Brooklyn / Fort Greene

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There was no video, because of all the winding streets at the beginning that I got to Sands Street, I just forgot. Summer is getting away from me, and I'd like to catch up quickly on some of these walks, so I'm going to speed through the trip here rather than annotate all of the photos. Also, welcome to any viewers who found their way here through Tik Tok, Instagram, or any of the other social media sites that I've posted images and videos to! I got out of the train on Brooklyn Bridge Blvd, which is odd to see on the map, because I always knew this block at Adams Street. I don't know when the name was changed. I made my way over to Cadman Plaza East so I could get to the other side of the bridge and the highway because I needed to get to Sands Street. There's actually a tiny isolated street off CPE labeled Sands Street, which was probably a remnant of the damage Robert Moses did. From there, it was a left on Prospect Street and the...
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Pennsylvania Ave / Sheffeld Ave

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From Broadway Junction to the Jackie Robinsone, down Pennsylvania Ave to Linden Blvd and back again on Sheffeld. There was a short piece of Broadway just past Broadway Junction that I hadn't walked yet. This brought me to the entrance of the Jackie Robinson (formerly the Interborough) Parkway and the start of Pennsylvania Ave. I'd walked most of Pennsylvania Avenue in the past when I worked at FDNY High School at Thomas Jefferson campus, but never down to the highway. To get there, I had to walk up Jamaica Ave to Fanchon Place, which I took up to the start of Highland Blvd (not to be confused with Hylan Blvd in Staten Island). After that, the plan was to walk south on Marginal St W, but the two streets didn't exactly line up. I had to take a flight of steps down to the dead end street. And that brought me to Pennsylvania Ave. A few blocks down, at Liberty Ave, I passed the NYPD Community Center. I like the architecture and the inscription that says "Magis...
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