Walkin' In Brooklyn

This was a short walk because I already walked through Udall's Cover Park Preserve not an hour before this. This was also a substitute walk. I planned on walking through The Hole , a below-sea-level neighborhood on the Brooklyn/Queens border, squeezed in between S. Conduit Ave and Linden Blvd. (You'd think given its isolation that it would be in one or the other, but, No.) Simply put, as I drove down 78th Street (which is technically Queens), I noted the state of the roads and the places to park. I also noticed that the only two people I passed seemed neither happy nor pleasant. I turned down DuMont and then Amber (named streets are Brooklyn, basically), which were still bad, so I drove slowly, and switched to East New York. I did notice that things were a little better toward the other end of Dumont as I drove on. Maybe I could return there with other people, or just without the car. As nice as it would be to have the car to get out of there, I'd be...

This was a "Two-fer" walk. I had a few blocks to finish off in Spring Creek, near the Gateway Mall at Erskine Street. After this, I moved my car across Flatlands Ave so I could walk a loop from Flatlands to New Lots Ave. Years ago, I worked at Spring Creek High Shcool, so I've made the walk from the school to the 3 train a number of times. (Honestly, though, I drove for most of my time there because the parking situation wasn't too bad.) The first 8 pictures are from Schroeder Ave and Vandalia Ave with some of the side streets, along with a piece of Gateway Drive. I walked through the Dog Park just because it was there. After I moved the car, finding a spot on Stanley Ave, I made a loop around Elton St, up to New Lots Ave, over to Cleveland St, down to Flatlands Ave...