Kings Place

Kings Highway runs about 6 miles from Bensonhurst, through Flathlands, East Flatbush and ending in Brownsville just before making connections with either Empire Blvd or Eastern Parkway.

It originally extended farther down into Bay Ridge. In fact, there's a park named Milestone Park on 18th Avenue, with a replica of the original milestone marker that used to stand there.

Not far from its current endpoint, a few blocks from McDonald Ave, I came across a short dead-end block labeled Kings Place.

I'm trying something new. I sketched my own map so I wouldn't have to use one from either Google or Apple. 

The West streets count down north of Kings Highway, but below it, they temporarily stop at West 3rd. Kings Place isn't parallel to the West streets. Instead, it runs parallel to neighboring Van Sicklen St and Lake St, as well as McDonald Ave, which bends at this point. (North of Kings Highway, McDonald is parallel to the West streets and the East streets on the other side.)

Also, Dahill Road disappears again.

Kings Place just seems like an odd, out of place, remnant from an older time. At its end, you can see the backs of the homes on Lloyd Court, which is another short block, connecting Van Sicklen to West 3rd. Interestingly, Lloyd Court is perpendicular to King's Place and Van Sicklen, but not West 3rd.

Kings Place seems like a quiet place to live, even if it is off a busy road, if only because it isn't on the way to anywhere. The beauty of dead end streets.