Walkin' In Brooklyn

To get to the Waterfront District, I needed to catch the G from work and take it to Smith Street. There's a bit of walk just to get to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. This portion is called, I believe, the trench. I always hated driving in there. Apparently, Google doesn't like it either because it always tells me to take the streets. However, when I do that, I obey traffic laws. Basically, here's the bridge that I needed to cross. And here are three images of the idiot driver who ran the red light and stopped in the crosswalk and left little room for me to get to the bridge. I did restrain myself from using anything in my bag as a club to smash a window, but mostly because I didn't want to break my stuff. I calmed down enough by the time that I got home that I didn't plaster these images across social media. But, hey, I can be petty. It's not like anyone (beside you, dear reader!) reads this blog: Up t...

Later in the day, after I'd gone to the  Brooklyn Army Terminal , someone online asked me if I went to  Bush Terminal Park . To which I responded, "What?" Apparently, I had walked past another entrance to the Brooklyn waterfront and hadn't noticed it. In retrospect, mind you, I actually did notice an entrance. I just didn't think it was a public entrance to a public park. Let me start by saying that this first picture was one of the last ones I took. This entrance is not visible from First Avenue . It's off the beaten path. Since I was coming from the higher-numbered streets, I saw this, which I assume is the "back entrance", first. I have driven into this parking lot many times (there was a store there I used to go to, but I'm not legally allowed to talk about anymore). I never saw this sign and never knew that there was a road open to the public here.  Interestingly, Google Maps shows the 50th Street continues below 1st Avenue and then...