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46th - 55th Street / 3rd - 4th Avenues

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An interesting video to start my trip, taken at the 45th Street Station before I even started my walk: This walk was split up to avoid crossing Third Avenue under the Gowanus repeatedly. Still, the hills in Sunset Park were something. This was a quiet and uneventful walk, starting down 46th Street (which would be northwest on the map but it was absolutely downhill!) then along 3rd Ave and up (and uphill) 47th Street. Repeat until 55th Street. I pass a lot of religious statues, figures, and symbols in front of people's homes while doing these walks. This one on 51th Street caught my eye, probably because it was colorful, but partly its position in the corner. Many times, they're centerpieces in garden (or rocks or dirt). From 55th Street, I was over to 59th Street to catch an N train back to 36th to get a D instead of riding into Bensonhurst and catching a bus home. And that's it for ...
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Taaffe Pl / Grand Ave / Steuben St / Emerson Pl / Classon Ave

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A loop of missing streets between Fort Green and Bed-Stuy, straddling the BQE, south of South Williamsburg. Once again, I don't have a video for this walk, but here are two that I made for Tik Tok. (When I upload them, I add the map above.) A quick trip starting and ending at the Classon Street subway station. The walk started "officially" on Taffee Place, with two "a" and two "f" characters in the name. I liked this high wall surrounding the property with a fence protecting the wall. But then there was an opening, so no secrets contained within. The building across the street also caught my eye. They aren't built like that any more. Moving up the block, I passed a playground on the left and this school on the right. As far as I can tell, this is the back of P.S./I.S. 157 - The Benjamin Franklin Health & Science Academy. Again, they don't build them like this any more. Just before Flushing Ave, there is a ...
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Downtown Brooklyn / Fort Greene

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There was no video, because of all the winding streets at the beginning that I got to Sands Street, I just forgot. Summer is getting away from me, and I'd like to catch up quickly on some of these walks, so I'm going to speed through the trip here rather than annotate all of the photos. Also, welcome to any viewers who found their way here through Tik Tok, Instagram, or any of the other social media sites that I've posted images and videos to! I got out of the train on Brooklyn Bridge Blvd, which is odd to see on the map, because I always knew this block at Adams Street. I don't know when the name was changed. I made my way over to Cadman Plaza East so I could get to the other side of the bridge and the highway because I needed to get to Sands Street. There's actually a tiny isolated street off CPE labeled Sands Street, which was probably a remnant of the damage Robert Moses did. From there, it was a left on Prospect Street and the...
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