Walkin' In Brooklyn

Why I didn't take a screenshot then, I don't know. Luckily, Map My Walk keeps a record of your routes, but that's looks different from the others because I just downloaded this map to make this blog post. Another street in Crown Heights that I got to by taking the L train to Atlantic Ave. Soon I'll have to venture farther south. I was surprised how many pictures I took considering that I walked mostly a single street, and the other streets I was on, I'd walked before. I started at Atlantic Ave and walked down East New York Avenue, but I had to make a detour. I took Pacific Street two blocks to Mother Gaston. I had three blocks between Eastern Parkway and East New York Avenues to fill in. That brough me to the begining of St. Mark's Place. One block brought me back to Eastern Parkway. Crossing the parkway brought me to Our Lady of the Presentation / Our Lady of Mercy church and the parish building next to it. He...

There is no Ocean in Ocean Hill, but there is definitely a hill. Another trip to Atlantic Ave on the L train from work and a walk down East New York Ave. The first thing I pass are the unused tracks that are being considered for use for the Interboro Express (IBX) light rail. Will it get constructed in my lifetime? Who's to say. Dean Street starts at East New York Ave, but there's a major intersection at Eastern Parkway (which I'd walked not that long before). I have no idea what is behind this wall, and Google Maps is no help. Looks like a serious place with stone walls and razor wire. Are they keeping people out ... or in??? Revere Place was a one-block long street between Dean and Bergen just before Kingston Ave, so now was as good a time as any to walk it. Just a house with a tower. You know that I'm going to take pictures of houses with towers. I stopped at a Litter Free Library that was in front of someone...