Walkin' In Brooklyn

This is the walk that reminded me that I need to be sure my phone is charged before I leave work! I have no idea why the battery would've run down because that's never a problem. Something must've been running while I was at school and I hadn't noticed. At any rate, I was almost at the end of my walk. I was a block away from Brooklyn College, and I had to get to Bedford Ave to catch a bus. On the bright side, when I charged the phone and restarted the app, it had paused my walk at this point, and hadn't deleted it. I'm venturing farther past Flatbush Ave into sections of Brooklyn that I've never been in before (that I remember). Basically, I was up to E 26 Street, but there are other short streets in the area that I had to swing around. In the end, the walk was under three miles, which is short for me these days. Church Ave brought me to Bedford, which brought me to Erasmus. That was followed by a quick detour (not pictured). The last time I was ...

This was my third interview. This one was with Katie Vasquez for Currents TV, which is the channel of the Archidiocese of Brooklyn and Queens. We walked down Snyder Ave, which was the next one I was going to do anyway. It took us past Holy Cross Cemetery, but there were no churches along the way, so we made a detour to pass one. It was a long walk, and I forgot to get a selfie with the reporter. Coincidentally, when I texted her, she mentioned that she thought of it, but when I didn't suggest it, she thought that I didn't want one (maybe because of Covid or whatever). Oh, well. Next time ... if there is a next time. The segment didn't air until mid-December, and I didn't find out about it until January. The morning started with a ride out into Brownsville. It looks like someone had a celebration on the train before I got on. I was running late, and the reporter was on time. It didn't occur to me just how far Snyder Ave was from the Saratoga Ave train s...