I’m a New Yorker, and I run. I get bored doing laps around the park or running up and down the Hudson River path. Instead, I use my long-distance runs to explore the neighborhoods in my city, especially in the outer boroughs. I’ve decided to take a cheap digital camera with me on some of my runs to document the city and its changes as seen when crossing on foot.


Monday, September 20, 2010

Bums, jerks, and surfers, by way of Canarsie

"By way of Canarsie" is supposedly Old New Yorkish for taking the most circuitous route possible. As in: "How'd that cab ride cost you twenty bucks? Jeezus, did the guy take you by way of Canarsie?"

In other words, it's kind of out of the way. Until yesterday, in fact, it was the only major Brooklyn neighborhood I'd never been to. So... that's fixed now.

This run was just a touch over 12 miles. It also went through Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush and East Flatbush. Basically, the Caribbean heart of Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Museum. Those blobs in the foreground are pulses of water
from the choreographed WET Design fountain. View here.
From 2010-09-19

Apartment building at the home of the Dodgers
From 2010-09-19

Townhouses in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens district
From 2010-09-19

Supermarkets here sell barrels for shipping stuff
back to family in the islands.

From 2010-09-19

Too many possible captions.
I've settled on: "We're gonna need a bigger building..."
From 2010-09-19

A shipping center on Utica Ave. These were headed to Trinidad.
From 2010-09-19

The Wyckoff House, parts of which date back to 1652,
making it New York City's oldest building
From 2010-09-19

The last glass-bottle seltzer works in New York.
Here's a great new short film about it: Seltzer Works.
From 2010-09-19

A sign for a street that isn't there anymore. Canarsie has
a lot of these. ForgottenNY explains.
From 2010-09-19

Another Ghost Bike. This one for Keith Powell.
From 2010-09-19

Fishing on Canarsie Pier in Jamaica Bay
From 2010-09-19

He says the fish here are porgies.
From 2010-09-19

From 2010-09-19

Canarsie rowhouses.
From 2010-09-19

Google did not reveal any explanation for this intriguing name.
From 2010-09-19

The first/last stop on the L. Transit geek moment: It's unusual for being
at grade, and for having a bus gate for free transfers.
From 2010-09-19

At the top of the awesome three-level Broadway Junction station.
From 2010-09-19

The hipster-heavy L from Williamsburg and L.E.S. meets with
the Rockaway Beach-bound C here. So the station was crawling with surfers.
From 2010-09-19
Posted by Pat Regnier at 9:00 AM

1 comment:

  1. bethanySeptember 20, 2010 at 11:44 PM

    Great set of pics! Thx for the tour ... I need to do a bit more route planning so I can see more of the city on my runs, instead of hitting the same old ones.

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