Walkin' In Brooklyn

Too cold to go far today. I'm out in the neighborhood, running errands. Update: Here's more footage from the library, along 86th Street and 18th Ave. Stops at Guiseppe Garibaldi Playground and Milestone Park. I had to put it on YouTube because the went over the 100 MB limit to upload it here. By a lot: Outtakes/Final Thoughts: I was walking on the avenue when I was going to shoot the first video, but there are people behind me. So I cut down a side street, which wasn't on the way to the bank or anything, just to film my introduction. I turn around and a couple people had followed me, and a couple more choose that moment to come out of their houses. Then one of the guys who'd turned the corner gets into a car and starts it -- and it's loud! And since it's cold, he has to leave it running! I came close to skipping the whole thing, but it was just too funny when I thought about it. Why be annoyed? Other than I was standi...

Kings Highway runs about 6 miles from Bensonhurst , through Flathland s, East Flatbush and ending in Brownsville just before making connections with either Empire Blvd or Eastern Parkway . It originally extended farther down into Bay Ridge. In fact, there's a park named Milestone Park  on 18th Avenue , with a replica of the original milestone marker that used to stand there. Not far from its current endpoint, a few blocks from McDonald Ave , I came across a short dead-end block labeled Kings Place . I'm trying something new. I sketched my own map so I wouldn't have to use one from either Google or Apple.  The West streets count down north of Kings Highway, but below it, they temporarily stop at West 3rd . Kings Place isn't parallel to the West streets. Instead, it runs parallel to neighboring Van Sicklen St and Lake St , as well as McDonald Ave, which bends at this point. (North of Kings Highway, McDonald is parallel to the West streets and the East streets on the ...