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Kingston / Park Place / New York Ave / Crown Street / Franklin Ave

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Why did I zigzag so much? Who can say? I don't remember, but I'm sure it had to do with finishing something or filling in some streets on the map. The trip starting at Fulton means that I'd learned the trip of taking the L to Broadway Junction and then the A toward Manhattan, which was much faster than taking the L to 8th Ave and getting the A there. Starting at Kingston and Fulton. I don't remember where they were smoking meat (or are they just grilling it?) but this was a sight I'd see in other places as I walked around the city. The third photo, I believe, is from the south side of Atlantic Avenue, where the scenery changes a little. I turned west at Park Place and Brower Park. The construction site at the corner of New York Ave (and much of the block before it) is, according to Google Maps, Hebron SDA Bilingual School. One source says the building if 40 years old, another says it was vacant for almost 30...
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Eramus / Lloyd / Veronica Pl / E 26 Street

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This is the walk that reminded me that I need to be sure my phone is charged before I leave work! I have no idea why the battery would've run down because that's never a problem. Something must've been running while I was at school and I hadn't noticed. At any rate, I was almost at the end of my walk. I was a block away from Brooklyn College, and I had to get to Bedford Ave to catch a bus. On the bright side, when I charged the phone and restarted the app, it had paused my walk at this point, and hadn't deleted it. I'm venturing farther past Flatbush Ave into sections of Brooklyn that I've never been in before (that I remember). Basically, I was up to E 26 Street, but there are other short streets in the area that I had to swing around. In the end, the walk was under three miles, which is short for me these days. Church Ave brought me to Bedford, which brought me to Erasmus. That was followed by a quick detour (not pictured). The last time I was ...
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St. Mark's Place

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Why I didn't take a screenshot then, I don't know. Luckily, Map My Walk keeps a record of your routes, but that's looks different from the others because I just downloaded this map to make this blog post. Another street in Crown Heights that I got to by taking the L train to Atlantic Ave. Soon I'll have to venture farther south. I was surprised how many pictures I took considering that I walked mostly a single street, and the other streets I was on, I'd walked before. I started at Atlantic Ave and walked down East New York Avenue, but I had to make a detour. I took Pacific Street two blocks to Mother Gaston. I had three blocks between Eastern Parkway and East New York Avenues to fill in. That brough me to the begining of St. Mark's Place. One block brought me back to Eastern Parkway. Crossing the parkway brought me to Our Lady of the Presentation / Our Lady of Mercy church and the parish building next to it. He...
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