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Herkimer / Rockaway Ave / Cooper / Irving

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Another pre-walk walk that had me retracing old ground to get to a handful of streets that were skipped on previous outings. Out of the almost 1.6 miles in this trip, I'd likely walked more than half of this before. And since this was before walk, there was little incentive to walk farther and more incentive to get to school a little early. You might notice the Williamsburgh Bank Building (with an "h"), aka One Hanson Place (also with an "H"), and think "That's not Bushwick!" And you'd be correct. Once again, the trains were messed up. There was going to be a 10-15 minute wait during morning rush hours for an R train to take me two stops. So I got out at Atlantic Ave to walk to the C train. The joke was on me though. I found the "G" train, no problem. I thought about riding back a stop for the C, but there was a bit of a wait time there as well. So I took and turn and went for the C ... except I took a wrong turn...
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Nassau / Russell / N. Henry / Herbert

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The screenshot says "plus a mile for glitches", which usually means that the app was not recording when I thought it was recording. Odds are (and I'm working from memory and logic) that I got off the train at the Nassau Ave G train station on Manhattan Ave and then walked to Msgr. McGolrick Park and turned north. And THEN I realized that I wasn't recording. Actually, I just checked the video (which I can't do in preview mode -- I had to go back to the hard drive), and I was walking on Nassau Ave. You can also see a diagonal line that runs through buildings. The app was paused but not unpaused until some time later. The two-way street to start off should be Nassau Ave, followed by Msgr. McGolrick Park and Paul Clinton Garden (which does not seem to appear on Google Maps, so I'm not exactly sure where it is now. I'd have to guess on Russell St.) North on Russell St, east on Messerole, and then south on North Henry Str...
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Wythe Ave

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A little over a week later, and there's more testing in high schools, so I had another chance for a morning walk. I filled in some missing streets in Williamsburg, south of the bridge and west of the BQE, with Wythe Ave being the longest of the ones I hadn't walked before. (At this point, I'm retracing my steps a lot .) Hiking up to the Bedford Ave L stop was the best choice for getting to work afterword although I considered walking the entire way. I took a wrong turn from the start as I meant to walk down Havermeyer but instead turned onto Roebling a block later because of where I exited the train. But that's okay, I just swung around the long way to get to Lee Ave, which I took to Rodney Street (just before the BQE). Rodney is cut off after a block, and I looked to see if I could walk through the area, but it didn't seem like it. (Checking Goolge Maps, I probably would've zig-zagged so much that I might as well just walk around, which I did.) So I ...
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