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Johnson / St. Nicholas / Gates Aves / Broadway

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A quick walk through East Williamsburg, marking off one more street, to get to Flushing Ave and cross into Bushwick. I also finished off another piece of Broadway without overshooting the last subway stop before Broadway Junction like I did the last time. First up was Johnson Ave, starting at Morgan Ave, heading east to the end. Johnson is on the other side of the tracks and the first street below this spur of Newton Creek. At Johnson and Scott, there was one business reading for Halloween. A quick walk down Flushing brought me to St. Nicholas Ave. The building that looks like a church front isn't listed on Google Maps as anything other than an address on the corner of Harman Street. A block down Bleeker Street took me to Wyckoff, which I took to Gates Ave. Once on Gates Ave, it was off to Broadway. There was one building that stood out to me, so I took a picture of it. And, finally, a photo of Chauncey Street...
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Stanwix Street / Malcolm X Blvd

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When I walked all the north-south streets in Bed-Stuy, a couple were left behind as I moved to other neighborhoods. Malcolm X Blvd is the last main street that I had to walk. (There might be a couple of minor streets that I did later.) The last time I was here, other than crossing it from east to west, was when I had an interview at a high school in Bushwick near Myrtle Ave and then had to get back to Boys and Girls High School on Fulton Street. Rather than take the train (which would've easily been over an hour going to Manhattan and back to Brooklyn, I saw that there was a bus that went down Malcom X. Blvd which got me to the school in about 20 minutes. Stanwix Street starts at Flushing Ave and runs parallel to Bushwick Ave. However, Bushwick turns when it intersects Beaver, and Stanwix ends when it hits Bushwick. There are a few walkways between buildings as you go down Stanwix, but then there was one actual street, Renaissance Court. It looked like a dead end, so I...
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Newkirk / E 34 / Clarkson

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This was one of my "backward" walks. Instead of heading south from the park toward Kings Highway (or Ave H), I started from Newkirk and went north to the park. By doing this, I could get a subway home, rather than a crowded bus. The walk started at Newkirk Plaza, a place I know well from my Brooklyn College days (although not as well as I should, I think). I went south to Foster Ave and circled around to Marlborough Road for one block to Newkirk and the crossed the bridge over the tracks. Between scaffolding and traffic, it was a few blocks before I took any more pictures on Newkirk, but whenever something catches my eye, I'll stop and wait for traffic to pass. Newkirk bends due east at Flatbush Ave. It seems to get a little more narrow but that could just be an illusion from the buildings being closer to the street, not the street itself being skinnier. At E29 Street, we get the back of St. Jerome, which has its front on Nostrand A...
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