I encourage everybody to take up Montrose Morris on her offer to walk around Crown Heights and Bedford Stuyvesant. She, Amzi Hill, BxGrl and I covered part of the Crown Heights leg one recent Sunday and it was terrific!
Here’s a long walk everyone may consider. I do it when I get pangs for Brooklyn:
— Taxi or subway to Court and Montague
— Weave around blocks adjacent to Montague to waterfront
— Walk back to Clinton Street then south to Cobble Hill
— In Cobble Hill weave between Clinton, Court and Smith Streets
— Continue to Gowanus
— Cross Gowanus into Park Slope, hitting Fifth for refreshments.
— Get to Grand Army Plaza by way of Prospect Park
— East on Eastern Parkway to Brooklyn Museum
— Wind through nearby blocks back to Vanderbilt Avenue
— North on Vanderbilt to Atlantic
— Wind through Clinton Hill/Pratt Institute
— Connect to Fort Greene and park
— Pass Brooklyn Tech toward downtown
— Catch subway or taxi at Municipal Building.
It’s a good walk, but makes a wonderful cut through “brownstone” Brooklyn, mixing residential, institutional, commercial, industrial and park spaces — and its good in most any weather (except rain, of course).
bxgrl, I surely hope you aren’t referring to me, because CH warned me not to mention “you-know=whats” and I’d never risk expulsion . . . ( . . . so early in my membership).
“Will the rattlesnake at Ellis taste like chicken???
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at July 28, 2009 3:46 PM”
Once you’ve had chicken, nothing tastes the same…
(ducks for cover!)
“what are ‘you know whats’ ??”
dh, I’m dumb but not that dumb – bxgrl is paying close attention, and I dare not risk her wrath.
RE. BROOKLYN WALKS
I encourage everybody to take up Montrose Morris on her offer to walk around Crown Heights and Bedford Stuyvesant. She, Amzi Hill, BxGrl and I covered part of the Crown Heights leg one recent Sunday and it was terrific!
Here’s a long walk everyone may consider. I do it when I get pangs for Brooklyn:
— Taxi or subway to Court and Montague
— Weave around blocks adjacent to Montague to waterfront
— Walk back to Clinton Street then south to Cobble Hill
— In Cobble Hill weave between Clinton, Court and Smith Streets
— Continue to Gowanus
— Cross Gowanus into Park Slope, hitting Fifth for refreshments.
— Get to Grand Army Plaza by way of Prospect Park
— East on Eastern Parkway to Brooklyn Museum
— Wind through nearby blocks back to Vanderbilt Avenue
— North on Vanderbilt to Atlantic
— Wind through Clinton Hill/Pratt Institute
— Connect to Fort Greene and park
— Pass Brooklyn Tech toward downtown
— Catch subway or taxi at Municipal Building.
It’s a good walk, but makes a wonderful cut through “brownstone” Brooklyn, mixing residential, institutional, commercial, industrial and park spaces — and its good in most any weather (except rain, of course).
I get the craving about once a year.
Nostalgic on Park Avenue
what are ‘you know whats’ ??
MM, it is Walking Brooklyn. I posted the link to it above, but you can Google it to see it you have it already.
bxgrl, I surely hope you aren’t referring to me, because CH warned me not to mention “you-know=whats” and I’d never risk expulsion . . . ( . . . so early in my membership).
MM – I’d love to join you guys to see either/both of those nabes!!
MM, as I said to Biff, I’m always up for a good walking tour, and Bed Stuy and CH are 2 neighborhoods I’d like to get to know.
MM my email address is up on my profile too, if you’re organizing something and want participants!