Walkin' In Brooklyn

For all the times I driven along Kings Highway -- and my old Garmin GPS loved sending me down the entire length of Kings Highway! -- I would've thought the walk should've been longer. Perhaps because I only had to walk as far as Nostrand to complete the street. Kings Highway was a street that I had no idea when I was ever going to complete mostly because I looked at the map from West to East and contemplated how would I get back home? Would I would or grab a bus? But after my first trips to Brownsville and seeing the start of the road (or what used to be the *end* of the road when I worked inside Boys and Girls High School at Research and Service HS), the thought of walking it home from this point crossed my mind. And having walked from East New York to Prospect Lefferts Gardens a couple times already made this trip inevitable. And I stated before, I couldn't believe how quickly I finished it, even if I did walk over 4 miles. The walk started at Saratoga Ave. S...

July came to a close with another trip to East New York on the 3 train, but this time I got off before the end of the line. Instead of Livonia, I went one block south to Riverdaale and walked down to the "L" train boundary with Brownsville. After a detour to the bridge over the tracks, I completed that avenue and crossed over to Clarkson Ave -- which I didn't take to the end because I had someplace else to go! But I'm getting ahead of myself! My trip started at the Van Siclen Ave station, which is one block north from the intersection of Van Siclen, New Lots Ave, and Riverdale Ave. Once at the intersection, I hung a right and went west like the young men of yore, although I only passed a few young men along the way. That's the benefit of traveling so early in the morning. The street running along the east side of the railroad tracks is Van Sinderen Ave. This particular block wasn't too creepy to walk, but it was a bit deserted. The block beyond it ...