Stanwix Street / Malcolm X Blvd

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When I walked all the north-south streets in Bed-Stuy, a couple were left behind as I moved to other neighborhoods. Malcolm X Blvd is the last main street that I had to walk. (There might be a couple of minor streets that I did later.) The last time I was here, other than crossing it from east to west, was when I had an interview at a high school in Bushwick near Myrtle Ave and then had to get back to Boys and Girls High School on Fulton Street. Rather than take the train (which would've easily been over an hour going to Manhattan and back to Brooklyn, I saw that there was a bus that went down Malcom X. Blvd which got me to the school in about 20 minutes.

Stanwix Street starts at Flushing Ave and runs parallel to Bushwick Ave. However, Bushwick turns when it intersects Beaver, and Stanwix ends when it hits Bushwick.

There are a few walkways between buildings as you go down Stanwix, but then there was one actual street, Renaissance Court. It looked like a dead end, so I walked it. However, there was a pedestrian walkway through to Bushwick Ave, so I could've waited for another day to do this.

Once on Bushwick Ave, I walked down to the Freedom Triangle once again. I tried recording a video that I could put on TikTok or Instagram, but I spliced the pieces together. Something else on my "to do" list. As a student once told me, I have "too many side quests." It's not like I'm going to be an influencer.

From there, it was down Willoughby Ave ("Next stop, Willoughby!") to Broadway, and then to the beginning of Malcolm X Blvd. It's a long street, so I don't know why I didn't take more photos than just the establishing shot and the shot at the other end.

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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