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Foster Ave / E25 St / E 23 St / Dorchester

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Welcome to folks who found this blog from one of my reels on Instagram or Tik Tok! Yes, I fell behind a couple of months over the summer. The walks from Canarsie continue, and Brooklyn starts to seem even smaller -- even though it was six and a half miles! If I'm not mistaken, I had to do E 25th Street because I walked the wrong street on an earlier walk (I went past it to E26), but the other streets were leftovers and on the way to the B/Q lines. Here are two street videos I took for Instagram and Tik Tok. I might as well post them here, too. ... Our story opens at the triple junction of East New York, Brownsville, and Canarsie (or thereabouts) at the New Lots Avenue station on the L train. The windows are worthy of a photo. And then it was a walk down a less creepy, but still creepy block of Van Sinderen Ave to get to Linden Blvd and then another block to DeWitt Ave. There's an unnamed triangular park (a Greenstreets space) and the street over here is also Van...
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46th - 55th Street / 3rd - 4th Avenues

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An interesting video to start my trip, taken at the 45th Street Station before I even started my walk: This walk was split up to avoid crossing Third Avenue under the Gowanus repeatedly. Still, the hills in Sunset Park were something. This was a quiet and uneventful walk, starting down 46th Street (which would be northwest on the map but it was absolutely downhill!) then along 3rd Ave and up (and uphill) 47th Street. Repeat until 55th Street. I pass a lot of religious statues, figures, and symbols in front of people's homes while doing these walks. This one on 51th Street caught my eye, probably because it was colorful, but partly its position in the corner. Many times, they're centerpieces in garden (or rocks or dirt). From 55th Street, I was over to 59th Street to catch an N train back to 36th to get a D instead of riding into Bensonhurst and catching a bus home. And that's it for ...
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