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Stanwix Street / Malcolm X Blvd

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When I walked all the north-south streets in Bed-Stuy, a couple were left behind as I moved to other neighborhoods. Malcolm X Blvd is the last main street that I had to walk. (There might be a couple of minor streets that I did later.) The last time I was here, other than crossing it from east to west, was when I had an interview at a high school in Bushwick near Myrtle Ave and then had to get back to Boys and Girls High School on Fulton Street. Rather than take the train (which would've easily been over an hour going to Manhattan and back to Brooklyn, I saw that there was a bus that went down Malcom X. Blvd which got me to the school in about 20 minutes. Stanwix Street starts at Flushing Ave and runs parallel to Bushwick Ave. However, Bushwick turns when it intersects Beaver, and Stanwix ends when it hits Bushwick. There are a few walkways between buildings as you go down Stanwix, but then there was one actual street, Renaissance Court. It looked like a dead end, so I...
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Newkirk / E 34 / Clarkson

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This was one of my "backward" walks. Instead of heading south from the park toward Kings Highway (or Ave H), I started from Newkirk and went north to the park. By doing this, I could get a subway home, rather than a crowded bus. The walk started at Newkirk Plaza, a place I know well from my Brooklyn College days (although not as well as I should, I think). I went south to Foster Ave and circled around to Marlborough Road for one block to Newkirk and the crossed the bridge over the tracks. Between scaffolding and traffic, it was a few blocks before I took any more pictures on Newkirk, but whenever something catches my eye, I'll stop and wait for traffic to pass. Newkirk bends due east at Flatbush Ave. It seems to get a little more narrow but that could just be an illusion from the buildings being closer to the street, not the street itself being skinnier. At E29 Street, we get the back of St. Jerome, which has its front on Nostrand A...
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Bergen Street

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The first is my usual video. The second is a Little Free Library I found along the way. Bergen Street starts at East New York Ave. Once again, I started at the Atlantic Avenue stations and started walking. The second picture shows some interesting houses. I haven't seen construction like this in my walks through Brooklyn. After that was a small greenspace (not a park) that someone is taking care of. It looks like I crossed the street, probably because I was walking toward the afternoon sun. Tree-lined streets always brighten my day. I crossed back because I saw a Little Free Library in front of the Friends of Flowers Community Garden. And then Bergen Street is interrupted. Back to Bergen after scooting around to St. Marks Ave. Weeksville is a separate neighborhood within Crown Heights. Weeksville, founded in 1838, was one of the nation's first independent free African American communities. It served as a safe haven with its o...
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