Six Miles Before Breakfast: Featuring Old New Utrecht, Microscopic Dahill and the Bay Ridge Branch
One day last week, I was up early enough that I had time to go for a walk before work when it was still cooler outside, and when there'd be fewer people about. I hadn't planned on the trip being over six miles long, but that's how it turned out. In the past, I've walked Bay Parkway , 20th Avenue and 18th Avenue all the way to McDonald Ave . The goal this time was to take 19th Avenue to its end, cut through the Shop-Rite parking lot, stroll down McDonald Ave, and pick up 17th Avenue for the walk home. I had a couple of detours along the way. Plus, I have difficulty reading my phone outside between its dimness and my polarized glasses. I went a little out of my way in trying to find 17th Ave, which doesn't cut all the way through. Some highlights from the trip, as mentioned in the blog title: New Utrecht Ave is a street that runs diagonally across the grid from 9th Avenue and 39th Street down to 86th Street between 18th and 19th Avenues . N...