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51st - 53rd Streets / 58th Street

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You can subtract about a mile from this one. Despite the amount of time I spent waiting for a subway, so I didn't pause the app right away. Thankfully, I remembered before I'd gotten too far, but I'd been waiting a long time after just missing a train. Back to Sunset Park to finish off some more streets, but not as many as I planned -- which is what happened the last time I'd gone down there as well. I was walking from Third Ave down to First Ave (which is actually northwest but downhill) and as close to the shoreline as I could get. After the first three streets, I scooted over to 58th Street to get to the subway. (I went to Fifth Ave to a store first.) and then I made of getting the N toward home instead of going back toward 36th Street. Not that it really would've mattered. I'd just missed a train and everything got screwed up after that, leaving me waiting for quite a while! M...
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New Jersey Ave / Vermont Ave

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This is actually a "short" walk considering that these days, I walk this far every weekend just going to get bagels! Once again, I took extra video for use on Instagram at some point. Back in May, I ventured farther into East New York to cover the north-south streets. At the same time, I avoided crossing Atlantic Ave into Cypress Hills because I wanted the first time I walked through there to be only Cypress Hills. Also, I wasn't sure where I could and couldn't cross Atlantic Ave. The streets are nutty over there. When I got off the C train at Pennsylvania Ave and Liberty Ave, I turned west so I could walk up a block of Sheffeld Ave that I hadn't walked before. This allowed me to walk over along Atlantic Ave and come down New Jersey Ave. Crossing Liberty Ave, I came upon Grace Baptist Church of Christ, which was founded in 1962. At Pitkin Ave, New Jersey Ave is interrupted for Grace Playground, but there is a walkway alongs...
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Sutter / Rockaway Ave / Chester / Bristol

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Yes, I've fallen months behind again. Sorry for the lack of updates as school began in September once again. Continuing down the L line seemed to be the way to go. At least, it did back in May. I still hadn't realized how long traveling on the L line actually took! Before we start: here's a little birdie. What's so special about the birdie? Well, I was walking to work about about seven in the morning, and it literally fell out of tree in front of me. It just missed me by inches (maybe 12-20 inches, but inches). At first, I thought it was dead. Then it's head popped up. I didn't have any gloves or anything that I could use to move it, and I was wasn't going to touch it otherwise. With my luck, it'd peck my hand and fly away and then what? And just in case the person looking over your shoulder is as clueless or brainless as someone on social media was, No, I am not poking the bird with a stick. That's the bird's ta...
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