Aderdeen / Furman / Granite / Sumpter / Buffalo

Another day, another trip to Bushwick and another venture into Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights to get to Eastern Parkway. If the map is to be believed, I walked through Weeksville. Weeksville is an old name for a neighborhood settled in the early 19th century, named for James Weeks, an African-American stevedore from Virginia. Old names pop up from time to time as neighborhoods change and people want to differentiate from the recent past by reaching back into history. (I have no problem with this -- but it would explain why many lifelong Brooklynites have no idea where Weeksville is.)

There were a lot of pictures on this one if only because of the number of streets I hit. Between the edge of the cemetery and Broadway there are a bunch of small streets, and I took a few of those at once.

There was some iconography at the end of Furman Street. The cemetery was above, and I saw some people walking up there.

Next block is Granite, another dead end terminating by the cemetery. About face and down to Broadway. I'm a sucker for a picture of a neighborhood garden, even if it isn't open to walk through.

Mini Food Review: I used an app for a cheap "surprise" bag at Pizza and Wings. No pizza, no wings. A leg, thigh and biscuit. While it was a value, it wasn't a great value, and nothing I would've stopped by for if I had a $2 off coupon for this particular meal. Oh, well. It was fine for what it was.

Next up was Sumpter, which is only five blocks long. As I get closer and closer to Broadway Junction, the streets run into Fulton pretty quickly. The street was typical of others in the area. The community garden was small, but it did have a Food basket next to it instead of a library. It's great that the folks in the neighborhood look our for one another.

Since the walk so far had been short, rather than get a C train and made connections, I walked down Buffalo to Empire Blvd to get to the IRT, which is more convenient to me.

I did make one goof though. I didn't check the map to look at the side streets that I could've walked. Some might've made more sense to walk now rather than on a future walk. Que sera! That said, the walkway in the picture below is listed on the map in Buffalo Ave.

And finally, a couple of blocks down Empire Blvd to get to the train station. Another park on the left, and an interesting looping lamppost on the right.

With the extension walking down Buffalo Ave, I still didn't hit the 3 mile mark. Stopping for pictures (and food), I ended up taking more than an hour to complete the walk. Sorry to say that there wasn't much special that stand out, which is part of the reason I took the picture of the lamppost, during the trip.

Possible reasons: dead end streets by the cemetery and the L train, mediocre food, and the weather -- it was cold but not quite cold enough to stop me from walking -- if the cold had gotten to me, I would've bailed at Fulton. The neighborhood didn't have the classic buildings that nearby streets had, and nothing really stood out for me to stop and take a picture.

That's it until next time.

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