White Street / Evergreen Ave

Another afternoon walking through Bushwick all the way to Broadway Junction, although that wasn't intended.

White Street is a short avenue near my school. It starts on the other side of the railroad tracks that run out to Long Island. (I won't call it LIRR because I don't know who owns those tracks.) It runs from Johnson Ave to Cook Street, which is a block before Flushing Ave. The neighborhood shifts from residential to industrial and there's plenty of places for "street art" -- aka, grafitti. The third picture is Justice Gilbert Ramirez Park. Ramirez became the first Puerto Rican elected to the New York State Assembly. He was appointed to the Family Court Bench by Mayor John V. Lindsay in 1968, and then elected to the State Supreme Court in 1975.

Evergreen Ave starts with cobblestones but it's paved after you go a block. The second park I passed (in just a few short blocks) is Green Central Knoll, a nautical-themed playground that was once the home of the famous Rheingold Brewery.

I believe the mural is on the side of a building at Jefferson Street. (It doesn't appear in Google Street View, so it must be a recent edition.)

Next up is the Evergreen Gospel Chapel on Troutman Street. And then another mural, this one just before Myrtle Ave.

The last picture was just an odd looking apartment building that looks like it'd been repurposed from something else. I noticed the random balconies. I realized later that the entrance is around the corner. Amusingly, if you use Street View, there is one spot where the building is covered with scaffolding, but move up or down the block and the scaffolding vanishes. Google couldn't give me any more information about the building or the address other than apartments for rent.

My walk was supposed to end at Chauncey Street. For whatever reason, I decided to walk to the J/M on Broadway instead of back to the L at Wilson. However, when I got to Broadway, the entrance to the M was closed. I either had to walk back a couple of blocks to the other end of the station or walk to the next one. I don't know why I thought there was another station ahead -- maybe it was the way the tracks are laid out. But I wound up walking to Broadway Junction.

Since I'd already walked all of this before, I didn't take new pictures.

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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