Walkin' In Brooklyn

There were some hot days in early May and that means one thing: POOL STORE. And the only pool store left in my half of Brooklyn (perhaps all of Brooklyn) is in Bergen Beach at the end of Ave N, which is somehow only a block away from Ave T. (This isn't that odd -- in Bay Ridge 7th Ave and 10th Ave aren't more than 50 feet apart when they end at 86th St.) I actually spent a good part of the morning in Georgetown because of a recycling event. Unfortunately, the truck was late, and then everything was disorgranized. Otherwise, I might've worked around there to the pool store. Instead, I drove to the store, parked around the corner and filled in more of the Bergen Beach section of the map. There are a couple of streets that are gated at both ends. Sometimes one end was open, but if I thought I was going to have to double back when I got to the other side, I skipped it. (And the signs told, not asked, visitors to go straight to the house of the person that they are visi...

I don't know what neighborhood I walked this past week (Wednesday, July 17, 2024), just that it was by the pool store. The store is in Bergen Beach, but if you look at the map, my travels took me closer to Georgetown, which is an area that I know is "over there" (waving hand non-specifically in its general direction) without knowning exactly where. I haven't had much reason to visit there in decades. (There used to be a yarn shop. There still might be one, but I haven't been brought there. And there are closer IHOPs as well.) My original plan had been to walk a simple rectangle along Avenue N, which branches north suddenly from the rest of Ave N and then to come back on Avenue T, which in that area is actually one block away. Instead, I started strolling up and down all the sides streets which probably tripled my walk. My reason for being in the area was the pool store, which was already open, but there was another place (see below) that wouldn't be open un...