Thomas S Boyland St / Sterling St

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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, I felt that hill, although it wasn't as bad as the hill up to Fulton the day before!

I crossed Eastern Parkway and knew that the next block would be East New York Ave, but Boyland turned a little. I don't remember what was going on at that intersection but I continued straight until Pitkin Ave (in Brownsville), where I hung a right, passed a few shops, and then another right onto Amboy.

I got back to Sterling Place, and I put a little spring in my step. Yes, for once, I felt very out of place and thought that people were looking at me more than in other places. Here are the three pictures I took.

And once I got to Franklin Ave, I turned left back to the IRT back to Barclays Center.



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