Walkin' In Brooklyn

I've made it to December, and I'm still over three months behind. It seems like I can never catch up -- even with the February Freeze! Another walk through Brownsville and Crown Heights. I had a goal to finish off the streets of Crown Heights and by this point, it was easier to access them by riding the L farther into Brownsville, past Atlantic Ave. The adventure begins at the Sutter Ave station, with a quick snapshot of the tracks that might one day become the IBQ route. Or "track", I should say, but at least there's room here for a second track for trains to run in both directions. And then up Junius Street (not pictured) to Belmont Ave. At Christoper Ave (no relation), I passed Carter G. Woodson Children's Park, which was named for the historian, author, and founder of the concept that would eventually become known as Black History Month. Woodson became the second African American man to earn a doctorate from Harvard University. ...

This was a quick walk, but not quite quick enough. I actually chopped off part of my original route. The reason for that was I had an extended lunch break before afternoon parent-teacher conferences started. Since I didn't have enough time to get home (mass transit being unreliable in the middle of the day, if I missed any connections, I would've been late), I decided to hit an area near to school, which on a chilly, cloudy November day seemed pretty bleak. There were more streets than I entered on Map My Walk. For that matter, I didn't list them all in the header, either. I didn't take a video (at least there isn't one saved on my hard drive), so here's a video from a couple days before! From school, I head north on Bushwick Ave until it ended at Metropolitan and turned into Woodpoint Road and then turned right onto Maspeth Road. I skirted around the Barbara Kleiman Residence, up Debevoise Ave and Jackson Street -- where I saw the smokestack -- and ba...