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Moore / Grattan / Melrose / Myrtle

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The last official walk of the year. If I rememeber correctly, it started to rain so I stopped at 2.99 miles. As it was, I'd already walked that left stretch of Myrtle before, but it was the most convenient train station. The M train would've brought me back to Manhattan and easily added more than a half hour to my trip home. This Friday in December was a good time to finish off some of the streets closer to work. I also stumbled across Buskwick Court, which appears to be a private street, but it has a name and I had access, so I walked in and out. Moore Street only runs two blocks from Bushwick to Bogart. The first block has been renamed Reverend Doctor Jeremiah Fennell St. In 1966, the Rev. Dr. Fennell was appointed Pastor of the Mount Calvary Church, and in 1978 was appointed Presiding Elder of Liberia, West Africa, where he organized 23 churches. He was also the founder and general chairman of the Fennell Day Care Center, which continues to operate to this day. ...
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Newport St / Ave A / Tilden / Beverley

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From the Livonia Ave station on the L train, through Brownsville, along the secluded Avenue A, into East Flatbush, skirting the cemetery, until I made it to Flatbush -- and then had to extend my walk because the MTA is a P.I.T.A! The first three photos are the obligatory photos of the tracks that run alongside the L train which will be used for the eventual IBX light rail system, and which divide East New York from Brownsville, followed by the bridge over those tracks. I've recently been informed that a connection is finally being built between the L stop at Livonia and the 3 train stop at Junius. Currently, you have to leave one station, walk a couple blocks in the neighborhood and then get the other train. The third picture is Newport Street, which is interrupted by the rail tracks. The first two pictures below are the Floyd Patterson ballfields and park. The third picture is Watkins St, a dead end street that doesn't seem to have a public w...
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