Mother Gaston / Sackman / Prospect Pl / Kingston

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The main walk was Prospect Place in Crown Heights, but, of course, I had to get there, and if I could get there and mark off a couple more streets along the way, so much the better.

Today's walk started at the Bushwick Ave/Alberdeen Street station on the L train. I walked over to Broadway to the start of Mother Gaston, which I took until was interrupted by Fulton Street and Eastern Parkway.

I walked to the end of Truxton Ave and then back along Callahan-Kelly Playground to Sackman Street. I'd already walked on the northern end of Sackman. I walked across the plaza, shown here.

I continued on Sackman until it was interrupted again by the LIRR tracks rising out of the ground again. I couldn't cross over, so I had to go around, trekking over to Eastern Parkway to swing around the tracks and the overpass. And then back again.

East New York Ave brought me to Prospect Place, which runs less than a full city block before it's cut by Eastern Parkway. The second image is the greenspace on the small triangle on the other side of Eastern Parkway, and then I continued on.

If I remember correctly, the next picture isn't a community garden. It's just a garden, or a yard or empty lot that has been overgrown.

Like a lot of streets in Crown Heights, they get interrupted by parks or housing complexes, and Prospect Place is no different. Google labels this area as the Albany House Tenant Association. I walked through without incident.

After this, the houses changed and then even the sidewalk changed. I haven't seen sidewalk like this on a city street before. And it ran down the block. It wasn't in front of just a single house. FInally, I got to Brower Park and Kingston Ave.

Kingston Ave brought me to Eastern Parkway once again and my subway ride home.

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

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