Moore / Grattan / Melrose / Myrtle

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The last official walk of the year.

If I rememeber correctly, it started to rain so I stopped at 2.99 miles. As it was, I'd already walked that left stretch of Myrtle before, but it was the most convenient train station. The M train would've brought me back to Manhattan and easily added more than a half hour to my trip home.

This Friday in December was a good time to finish off some of the streets closer to work. I also stumbled across Buskwick Court, which appears to be a private street, but it has a name and I had access, so I walked in and out.

Moore Street only runs two blocks from Bushwick to Bogart. The first block has been renamed Reverend Doctor Jeremiah Fennell St. In 1966, the Rev. Dr. Fennell was appointed Pastor of the Mount Calvary Church, and in 1978 was appointed Presiding Elder of Liberia, West Africa, where he organized 23 churches. He was also the founder and general chairman of the Fennell Day Care Center, which continues to operate to this day. Rev. Dr. Fennell passed away in June of 1998. In 1999, the street was renamed in honor of his service to the community.

After Moore, Grattan, which is offset a little to the north, runs about three blocks to Varick Ave. There was a lot of street art in this area. Here are two examples that caught my eye (and that I could frame into a photo).

Varick leads into a large intersection with Thames St, Flushing Ave, Irving Ave, and Melrose Street. (Flushing bends a little here -- and Melrose continues from Flushing (or vice versa).

Melrose, as mentioned before, is a continuation of Flushing Ave before Flushing angles off a little more northward. It runs from the crazy intersection down Central Ave, where it's cut off, but picks up again on the other side at Evergreen Ave. (I shifted over a block to George.)

After Evergreen, Melrose runs one more block to Broadway, ending by the Myrtle Ave train station.

From there, I retraced my route along Myrtle because it made more sense to take the G train home than to wait for an M train to bring me back to Manhattan, so I could turn around (that is, climb flights of stairs and descend onto the platform going the other way).

Of course, I took a photo of the framework without tracks. I found these amusing the first time I saw them probably over a decade ago when I came out this way for an interview with a principal at a school in Bushwick. From what I understand, they remain standing for structural integrity of the interchange of the Broadway line and the Myrtle Ave line.

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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