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Pitkin Ave / Montgomery Street

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To make up for the short walk I took the day before, I sojourned more than four miles on this day. I'm not sure if I realized that it would be quite this far. However, I had streets in Crown Heights that I needed to walk and it made sense to start in Brownsville from the L train and walk west toward Prospect Park instead of taking a train all the way to the park and looping around two streets like I did over the Christmas break (when I started my train ride from home). Besides Pitkin and Montgomery, I had a couple of small streets here, including an orphanded section of Union Street, Portal Street and Buffalo Ave. The trip starts, as I stated already, on the L train, getting off at the Sutter Ave station (with its fancy stained glass) and then walking up Junius Street to Pitkin Ave. Once there, I found myself standing next to the East New York Industrial Building, and under a sign stating that I was in the East New York Business District, neither of which I knew existed,...
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Canton Ave / Albemarle Road

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This walk was under three miles long. It got dark quickly and I cut short what I'd been planned. As a result, more than half of this walk was over streets that I'd walked before. I basically made my way along Canton Ave to the Parade Grounds and then walked back on Albemarle Road. After that, I walked around the cemetery to get to the D train. I've seen these pillars before, but I don't know the first time that I realized that they had a monogram PPS, for Prospect Park South, which isn't a name that I remember hearing as a kid. On the other hand, the only other name I've heard for this area is "Ditmas Park", which I'm sure is a much newer name. Albemarle ends at Coney Island Ave. That's where I had to call it. It was dark and getting colder -- this was back in January, just after New Years. And that's it for this trip. Come back soon. All of the above photo...
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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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