Walkin' In Brooklyn

I've walked the streets of Brooklyn my entire life. I had to -- we didn't have a car. Oh, the bus and train were available, but they cost money and didn't always go where we needed to go. And sometimes, walking was just faster. And walking lets you cut through parks and walk on the walls and stuff. Anyway, sometime back in 2019, I started keeping track of the streets I was walking along. Before that, I mostly walked a triangle or rectangle of blocks near my house and sometimes ventured down to the Coney Island Boardwalk (taking a train there and a bus back on the same fare!). In the six and a half years since then, it has exploded thanks to encouragement from people online. And, yes, I took some of their taunts as challenges. When I started going north to south, I also started making my way east, but not fast enough for some people. This past summer (2025), I traveled out to East New York and started walking west. It turns out Brooklyn isn't as big and scary as it...

News 12 did a feature piece on me where they called me a "man on a mission" to walk every street in Brooklyn. It isn't so much a mission as it is a goal. No tapes have self-destruct in five or any other number of seconds. The video can be found at https://brooklyn.news12.com/bensonhurst-man-on-a-mission-to-walk-every-street-in-brooklyn If anyone knows how to hot-link it right here, I'd appreciate it!

Sorry, but I've had too many irons in the fire, many demands on my time, so some of my hobbies and pastimes have taken hiatuses. Thank you for stopping by.

I have lived in Brooklyn, NY, all my life. Born and raised here. My father, who lived through the Depression, used to walk all over with my brother and me. For instance, if we went to the Prospect Park Zoo, we'd walk up the slope to the park, and across the park, and down the hill to the back entrance by the elephants. I think I was an adult the first time I walked down those steps from Flatbush Ave. I still like to walk, and in the past decade or so, I started walking more for exercise. However, I seemed to walk the same circuit of blocks near my house. I started traveling to Coney Island on summer mornings to walk the Boardwalk before it got to hot, or ventured over to the bottom of the Greenway in lower Manhattan. A little over a year ago, in May 2019, I decided that there was more of Brooklyn to see. I downloaded an app, and started tracking the streets I walked down on any given outing. I hit a few snags in my plan (personal issues and pandemics and such), but I still manag...