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Debevoise Ave / Jackson / Kingsland / Frost / Lombardy / Cherry St / Morgan Ave

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This was a quick walk, but not quite quick enough. I actually chopped off part of my original route. The reason for that was I had an extended lunch break before afternoon parent-teacher conferences started. Since I didn't have enough time to get home (mass transit being unreliable in the middle of the day, if I missed any connections, I would've been late), I decided to hit an area near to school, which on a chilly, cloudy November day seemed pretty bleak. There were more streets than I entered on Map My Walk. For that matter, I didn't list them all in the header, either. I didn't take a video (at least there isn't one saved on my hard drive), so here's a video from a couple days before! From school, I head north on Bushwick Ave until it ended at Metropolitan and turned into Woodpoint Road and then turned right onto Maspeth Road. I skirted around the Barbara Kleiman Residence, up Debevoise Ave and Jackson Street -- where I saw the smokestack -- and ba...
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Calyer / Russell / Humboldt / Moultrie / Norman / Jewel / Diamond

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There are more streets in Greenpoint that I need to cross off my list (or color in on my map), so I took a ride there after work. It's amazing how long it took to get somewhere that was basically four stops (on two different trains) away. Since I was basically still near work, I couldn't take too much time because I had the entire trip home to make. I've walked past St. Anthony of Padua – St. Alphonsus Parish before. I still haven't stopped in, but I didn't really have time to do it now, either. Once I'm on Calyer, I took that all the way to the end at Russell Street. There was a clock on a corner worth a picture. I'm honestly not sure where the next picture is. I can't match it up on Google Maps. I turned left and took Russell street to Greenpoint Ave and then did a 180 and walked Russell down to Nornam. All around the neighborhood, I saw trailers and placards for three different filming projects in the area in coming days. Moul...
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Mother Gaston / Sackman / Prospect Pl / Kingston

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The main walk was Prospect Place in Crown Heights, but, of course, I had to get there, and if I could get there and mark off a couple more streets along the way, so much the better. Today's walk started at the Bushwick Ave/Alberdeen Street station on the L train. I walked over to Broadway to the start of Mother Gaston, which I took until was interrupted by Fulton Street and Eastern Parkway. I walked to the end of Truxton Ave and then back along Callahan-Kelly Playground to Sackman Street. I'd already walked on the northern end of Sackman. I walked across the plaza, shown here. I continued on Sackman until it was interrupted again by the LIRR tracks rising out of the ground again. I couldn't cross over, so I had to go around, trekking over to Eastern Parkway to swing around the tracks and the overpass. And then back again. East New York Ave brought me to Prospect Place, which runs less than a full city bloc...
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