Walkin' In Brooklyn

Part 2 of the previous days walk. I finished walking Thomas S. Boyland down to East New York Ave, which I missed because there was stuff going on, so I walked along Pitkin for a block and came back. Then I walked Sterling all the way down to Franklin Ave. I will say that in all my walking, this was the first time that I really felt like I was walking in the wrong place. I thought I was being followed for a while on one block, and there were some nice, older gentlemen sitting in front of their apartment building who, while polite, did seem to wonder what I was doing there. I kept to the other side of the street from the crowd of teenagers. This was an after-school walk. I've done a lot of this neighborhood in the early morning hours (say, 7 am). Maybe that's the way to go in the future. I don't know. I stepped off the train at Fulton Street (where I got on the day before) and continued down Boyland. After crossing Atlantic Ave, I came to Hilltop Playground -- yes...

Back to Bushwick! Up Decatur St to Wyckoff (and possibly into Queens because of the crazy border that crosses through existing properties), down Schafer Street, and then over to Thomas S Boyland St. Not a lot of pictures before I got to the Marion Hopkinson Playground on Boyland and Marion streets and then continued to Fulton for my ride home. There was a bit of a hit that I had to climb. You can see how the bottom floor of that apartment building disappears into the ground! This was going to be a much longer walk, but the hill did get to me and the weather started to change. I didn't know if it was going to rain. Also, I was surprised to see that I'd already walked 2.5 miles and I was pretty sure that I had another 3 miles (at least) ahead of me. I called it a day, and decided to finish up the following afternoon. That's all for now. Please buy, read, and review my books! Most are available on Kindle Unlimited! Ask your libr...

There is no Ocean in Ocean Hill, but there is definitely a hill. Another trip to Atlantic Ave on the L train from work and a walk down East New York Ave. The first thing I pass are the unused tracks that are being considered for use for the Interboro Express (IBX) light rail. Will it get constructed in my lifetime? Who's to say. Dean Street starts at East New York Ave, but there's a major intersection at Eastern Parkway (which I'd walked not that long before). I have no idea what is behind this wall, and Google Maps is no help. Looks like a serious place with stone walls and razor wire. Are they keeping people out ... or in??? Revere Place was a one-block long street between Dean and Bergen just before Kingston Ave, so now was as good a time as any to walk it. Just a house with a tower. You know that I'm going to take pictures of houses with towers. I stopped at a Litter Free Library that was in front of someone...

Back into Park Slope so I can finish off this section of the map ... before it finishes off me ! This trip starts at the Seventh Ave G train station. I walked over to 11th St and started down the slope (in a northwestardly direction). Back up 12th, down 13th, etc. At this point, 16th Street and Prospect Ave have started to drift apart, so extra courts were added midblock. 11th Street On 12th Street, there was a huge yard, which was essentially an empty lot with a house at the back of it. My first thought was that the house (or what might've stood there before it) was servant's quarters, which is something that I'd seen growing up in the neighborhood. But then I was wondering if that was the back of a house on 13th Street. It's not that. Google Maps shows that it's just recessed farther back then the larger houses (apartment buildings) on either side of it. Had I gotten closer, I might've noticed. Next is 13th Street and 14th St...