Walkin' In Brooklyn

The walk of the day was Pacific Street starting at East New York Ave and finising at Nostrand. I'd walked the rest of Pacific Street previously, so I only had to walk a three-mile portion of it before catching the IRT on Eastern Parkway. I stepped off the L train at Atlantic Ave, following a crowd that included two colleagues whom I hadn't known were on the same subway. I didn't see them when I got to the bottom of the stairs, but I didn't notice the LIRR station, which likely explained their vanishing so suddenly. Pacific Street only runs a couple of blocks before it's cut off for the Atlantic Plaza Towers. I went around via Atlantic Ave, and then swung back. The houses changed as I headed west. I like to take pictures of the parks that I past (as long as I'm not taking pictures of children) but I had to laugh when I saw "South Pacific Playground". Two thoughts occured to me. First, "Some enchanted evening, you may se...

This wasn't one of my longer walks, but I took quite a few photos. And I could've taken a few more. The route took me from the Nostrand A station to Atlantic Ave, by way of Herkimer Place, to Classon (with a short side trip), then over to Pacific, down to Vanderbilt, over to Bergen, and finally 4th Ave and the Barclays train station. Forty-five minutes, including time for photos and peering into store windows and deciding if I was hungry. Screenshot of Map My Walk app I probably have to thank a student whom I overheard give a colleague of mine directions to get to Downtown Brooklyn from Williamsburg. She insisted that instead of getting the L to 8th Ave (Manhattan) and getting the A there, it would be quicker to take the L to Broadway Junction where the A, which is express, gets you downtown in 3 stops. Now Broadway Junction is a massive connection point, so I wasn't too sure about it. But since I only wanted to go to Nostrand Ave, I gave it a shot. Game...