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Weirfeld St / Boyland / Herkimer St

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This was an interesting walk because I had already walked a big chunk in the middle of it, the part that connected two places I hadn't been before. One of the problems with the Bushwick streets was that they didn't all feed directly into a Bedford-Stuyvesant street, either N-S or E-W, so I skipped a few. And then mistakes were made when retracing my steps. Weirfeld St was the last of these skipped streets, but once I got to Broadway (a short walk), I had no place to go, and the train ride home from there would've been long. On the other hand, the A train wasn't that far away. This gave me the opportunity to walk some of these one-block streets that connect Herkimer and Atlantic Avenue. To be honest, one of the reasons that I haven't walked either one of those streets yet was because I hadn't figured out how to divide up those streets. How can I minimize walking back and forth? I didn't want any three-mile walk turning into five miles or more. ... ...
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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...
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