By skyforbes 
First Rob Flaks from News 12 wanted to walk along with me. Then Andy Furman from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle interviewed me by email. And, finally, Hannah Kliger of CBS-2 News walked with me.
I liked how Hannah framed the story about learning some of the forgotten history of Brooklyn.
With 28 trips, I think I took more walks (over new territory) than I have in any three-month period since I began tracking this.
The biggest gains over the summer would be walking west from East New York through Brownsville. Also, I walked the rest of both Kings Highway and Bedford Avenue. (I overdid that last one.) I woke up early and took trains elsewhere and came back.
Is the East Flatbush crowd happy yet? (I mentioned you on News 12.)
Driving back from Long Island one morning, I did drive through The Hole. The streets were terrible, the parking looked iffy and neither of the only two people I passed looked particularly happy. I turned down the next street and drove closer to Spring Creek. Maybe next time. Who's up for a field trip?
Some notes:
A lot of construction on Livonia Ave, rivaling what I saw down on Bond and Nevins Streets (those are on either side of the Gowanus Canal). Also a lot of construction in Coney Island, which included a couple of streets that weren't even on my map! (I pieced my map together from Google Maps in 2019.) Likewise, there were streets near Domino Park that seemed new and weren't on my map.
I finished Bedford Ave, the longest block in Brooklyn, which made me wonder which other long blocks I've finished or almost finished. I wanted to make a morning out of Flatbush Ave — everything south of Grand Army Plaza, but that didn't happen. I'll probably break Flatbush up into pieces, especially after I walked nearly 8 miles on Bedford (and then getting back to the subway).
I had planned doing more of Red Hook. The east-west streets are easily walkable from Smith-9th Street on my way home from school. The north-south streets will likely wait until another vacation comes along. Ditto for whatever remains in Bay Ridge, which is easy for me to get to in the summer but a pain on the way home from school.
I also started posting more pictures and making more updates on my blog Walkin' in Brooklyn (http://walkininbrooklyn.blogspot.com), but the updates are less frequent now that I'm back in school.
Extra: I also walked around Poughkeepsie and Beacon one day, and did part of the Freedom Trail in Boston. (I was there for Readercon.)