Walkin' In Brooklyn

I'm almost finished with Bed-Stuy as I make my way to Broadway Junction. I'm saying Eastern Parkway for warmer weather and more daylight (after work) because I'd like to see if I can walk it in one shot. The last four roads that I had to zig-zag were MacDougal, Hull, Somers, and Truxton. They's at such an acute angle that I walked quite a bit down Fulton street to get from one road to the next. All together, it was only about 15 blocks, not counting Fulton, DeSales, and Sackman Street. The map shows a side street between DeSales and Eastern Parkway, but it's a road through a parking lot and not a proper street. There are sidewalks are each end and no street name. First off, walking to the Dead End with Holy Cross Cemetery beyond it covered in snow. Then about face for the two blocks to Broadway. I don't know why I looked up at Broadway but I noticed an overhead track coming to an end which s...

Too cold to go far today. I'm out in the neighborhood, running errands. Update: Here's more footage from the library, along 86th Street and 18th Ave. Stops at Guiseppe Garibaldi Playground and Milestone Park. I had to put it on YouTube because the went over the 100 MB limit to upload it here. By a lot: Outtakes/Final Thoughts: I was walking on the avenue when I was going to shoot the first video, but there are people behind me. So I cut down a side street, which wasn't on the way to the bank or anything, just to film my introduction. I turn around and a couple people had followed me, and a couple more choose that moment to come out of their houses. Then one of the guys who'd turned the corner gets into a car and starts it -- and it's loud! And since it's cold, he has to leave it running! I came close to skipping the whole thing, but it was just too funny when I thought about it. Why be annoyed? Other than I was standi...

Marcus Garvey Blvd is a walk that has been a long time coming. It should've happened much sooner, and if there was a reason why I put off walking here, I might go back to the time that I walked Throop Ave, which was probably a couple years ago, which was the only time I was stopped by someone asking for money. I did offer her a couple dollars for Pampers. While I did this, she tried to nonchalantly grab more out of my hand. She relented when I told her that I needed the rest to get home. Walking with a wheeled backpack and looking like a professional of some kind, she might've thought I needed more than enough for a subway ride. If any case, after walking Nostrand, Marcy, Tompkins and Throop, I stopped walking south from Flushing to Fulton. However, in the past few months, I've walked eastward along most of the streets in Bed-Stuy that run parallel to Flushing and run into Fulton without any incident, and in fact, I greeted or smiled at a lot of people. (I even walked ...