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Pennsylvania Ave / Sheffeld Ave

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From Broadway Junction to the Jackie Robinsone, down Pennsylvania Ave to Linden Blvd and back again on Sheffeld. There was a short piece of Broadway just past Broadway Junction that I hadn't walked yet. This brought me to the entrance of the Jackie Robinson (formerly the Interborough) Parkway and the start of Pennsylvania Ave. I'd walked most of Pennsylvania Avenue in the past when I worked at FDNY High School at Thomas Jefferson campus, but never down to the highway. To get there, I had to walk up Jamaica Ave to Fanchon Place, which I took up to the start of Highland Blvd (not to be confused with Hylan Blvd in Staten Island). After that, the plan was to walk south on Marginal St W, but the two streets didn't exactly line up. I had to take a flight of steps down to the dead end street. And that brought me to Pennsylvania Ave. A few blocks down, at Liberty Ave, I passed the NYPD Community Center. I like the architecture and the inscription that says "Magis...
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Bridge / Gold / Prince / Duffield

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A great afternoon to loop around DUMBO, Vinegar Hill, and Downtown Brooklyn. (I was even spotted by a coworker who I think was driving by on the highway when he saw me on the street.) Curiously, when I tried to tag these three neighborhoods, nothing came up for any of them, which doesn't make sense unless I walked those back when I wasn't updating this blog. The adventure begins at the York Street on the F line. I've been here before. There's a long tunnel after you ascend from the platform before you get to the turnstiles so you can leave. It's easy enough to get turned around down here -- I have before. I started by walking down Jay Street under the BQE, turning left on Prospect St, where I walked under the BQE a second time. On Jay Street, I took a picture of Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park, which extended all the way down to Bridge Street. Susan Smith McKinney Steward was the first African-American female physician in New York State and the thir...
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