New York Ave / Malbone Street / Clove Road

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The day's goal was to walk the rest of New York Ave, from Eastern Parkway to Brooklyn College. There was a small side quest not long after I started.

Just before Empire Blvd, there's a half-block long side street, Malbone Street. It leads into Clove Road, which runs diagonal the Nostrand and New York Aves, connecting Montgomery Street with Empire Blvd.

Walking up Clove Road is curious because the blacktop gives out, and I was basically on a foot path. However, at the top of the hill, despite no curb cut on Montgomery, there's a lamppost with a sign for Clove Road.

In any case, there is a lot of construction here, and whatever this street used to be, and whyever this street is shaped as it is, it's about to become The Next Big Thing. Being so close to Nostrand, the Sterling St IRT stop is steps away.

Back onto New York Ave, facing south.

I'll be honest with you -- I have no idea where this second picture is from. I guess I took the photo because it was more new construction -- so new that it isn't on Google Maps yet. I just know that it's somewhere before Maple Street (Lefferts Ave, perhaps?) because I've passed this library, and it's tower clock, before. I took another photo of it.

More construction, more units -- but still some old buildings stand strong against gentrification ... for now.

The neighborhood is changing a bit here. More homes, more trees, fewer apartments.

And then I got to the end of the road. I cut through a parking lot to get back to E 32nd Street and walked up to Avenue H to a bus stop. The only problem was that I was supposed to have walked up to Glenwood Road, and I was waiting at the wrong spot. By the time I discovered my mistake, I knew I wouldn't catch my bus, so I took off down Ave H and Campus Road, around my old Brooklyn College stomping grounds, and beat the bus to Bedford Ave to get a ride home.

And that's it for this trip. Come back soon.

All of the above photos and videos, unless otherwise stated, were taken by Christopher J. Burke and are subject to copyright.

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