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East New York Ave / Empire Blvd

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Heading down East New York Ave ... on purpose. A pretty straightforward walk, mainly down two streets. ... And a little plug for A Bucket Full of Moonlight I've covered part of East New York Ave before, but the L train was still the best place to start the trip. I have no idea what that building is (Google Maps doesn't label it) but it belongs to the NYPD. The razor on top of the walls caught my attention. The third photo is the 3 train emerging from Utica Ave on its way to Livonia. I can't find this playground on the map, but it must be somewhere between the train and where Empire Blvd splits off from East New York Ave. A block later at Utica Avenue, East New York Ave splits for a block as well. I stood at the corner of East New York Ave and East New York Ave, as mentioned in the video above. The "southern" fork makes a right turn and becomes Remsen Ave. At this point, I switched over to Empire Blvd. I passed a p...

Foster Ave / E25 St / E 23 St / Dorchester

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Welcome to folks who found this blog from one of my reels on Instagram or Tik Tok! Yes, I fell behind a couple of months over the summer. The walks from Canarsie continue, and Brooklyn starts to seem even smaller -- even though it was six and a half miles! If I'm not mistaken, I had to do E 25th Street because I walked the wrong street on an earlier walk (I went past it to E26), but the other streets were leftovers and on the way to the B/Q lines. Here are two street videos I took for Instagram and Tik Tok. I might as well post them here, too. ... Our story opens at the triple junction of East New York, Brownsville, and Canarsie (or thereabouts) at the New Lots Avenue station on the L train. The windows are worthy of a photo. And then it was a walk down a less creepy, but still creepy block of Van Sinderen Ave to get to Linden Blvd and then another block to DeWitt Ave. There's an unnamed triangular park (a Greenstreets space) and the street over here is also Van...