Walkin' In Brooklyn

This was the morning of afternoon Parent Teacher Conferences. I didn't have enough time after fourth period to make it home for virtual conferences, so I had to return to school after lunch. I made the most of the time that I had although I planned for more than I could cover in the time that I had. Unfortunately, this wasn't one of my open-ended walks. There are a lot of little streets in East Williamsburg that I still have to cover, particularly near the highway and around Newton Creek. They are also in a transit desert -- the easist way to get there is to walk there from my school, so I waste a good portion of the walk when I head out this way. If I didn't have to return to my building, I probably would've gone into Greenpoint instead. The walk started down Grand Street toward Metropolitan Avenue and the bridge over the creek, but I turned north on Vandervoort Ave. Rewe Street was my first detour, which had a detour of its own at Ivy Hill Road, only a sma...

This is why I plan things out -- and yet things still go wrong. I was supposed to go up E 25 Street, not E 26 Street, which I did some time before this. The problem was I was walking south then, not north, so I didn't realize my mistake. Unfortunately, my glasses were tinted and my phone was dim in the bright light, so I didn't discover my mistake until Lott Street wasn't where it was supposed to be! First off, March 10 was MAR10 Day, so I drew one on the blackboard. I liked how it came out. It could've been much worse. This was a short walk to fill in a few blocks. I got off the train at Newkirk Ave and exited the plaza area on the Newkirk end so that I could walk the one block of E17 Street, beyond the plaza buildings. The buildings here are facades for the stores behind them but look like buildings. Once I got to Foster Ave, I turned east toward Flatbush Ave, where I stood on a tiny island created by Flatbush, Bedford and Foster Aves. After that I un...