Brooklyn/Prospect Park/Complete Perimeter Walk

The Jerk · #1 Posted: **Apr 20, 2012, 4:45 AM**

Hello All, I walked completely around Prospect Park today and took a shot of nearly every block on the perimeter.

I'll break it into two sections, this is the Blue Route, left to right;

Hope you've enjoyed this half of the tour on this beautiful Spring day!

I'll post the Red Route pics here tomorrow.

The Jerk · #2 Posted: **Apr 20, 2012, 1:14 PM**

So now the Red Route.

Home and Full Circle

Danny · #3 Posted: **Apr 20, 2012, 3:08 PM**

Very interesting tour! Thanks for so many pictures, The Jerk.

I like very much those parks, with so much history, and those buildings and streets too. I´d like to visit Brooklyn.

Congrats and greetings from Madrid, Spain!

STLgasm · #4 Posted: **Apr 20, 2012, 3:38 PM**

Some of the most beautiful urban neighborhoods in the world! Windsor Terrace is my home away from home. Incredible pics!

gothamite · #5 Posted: **Apr 20, 2012, 4:43 PM**

thanks, that's beautiful! It's been ages since I've been to the Bklyn Museum (not since they redid the entrance). Great tour of the area.

Kingofthehill · #6 Posted: **Apr 20, 2012, 5:56 PM**

Great tour of both one of my favorite urban and several of my favorite Brooklyn nabes! PPW is a grand street that, IMO, architecturally, is among the best in Brooklyn. It is interesting (and a bit sad) how disused and poorly kept the park and neighborhoods adjacent to the park towards the SE side (Parkside Ave comes to mind) are. You would really think that area has the potential to gentrify and really become something special. Ocean Ave has some fantastic architecture, though - especially those bad-ass Art-Deco walkups!

The Jerk · #7 Posted: **Apr 20, 2012, 6:21 PM**

Brooklyn has slow, grinding decay in amber. That's her thing

mello · #8 Posted: **Apr 20, 2012, 7:56 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kingofthehill

Great tour of both one of my favorite urban and several of my favorite Brooklyn nabes! PPW is a grand street that, IMO, architecturally, is among the best in Brooklyn. It is interesting (and a bit sad) how disused and poorly kept the park and neighborhoods adjacent to the park towards the SE side (Parkside Ave comes to mind) are. You would really think that area has the potential to gentrify and really become something special. Ocean Ave has some fantastic architecture, though - especially those bad-ass Art-Deco walkups!

I lived in Crown Heights for 2 years until Dec. 2010 and walked all of these areas extensively. If the economy hadn't completely taken a crap you might have seen the Parkside area gentrify a bit. The thing is tons of African Americans and Caribbean people moved to Atlanta, Charlotte, Virginia etc. during the "good times" now they are stuck. There just aren't enough good jobs for all of these people KOTH. I met so many girls who were "caregivers" or worked in some form of low level nursing.

In order for these areas to gentrify these low income people will have to go somewhere else and Brownsville/East New York isn't going to keep sucking them up anymore so I don't really see those nabes improving anytime soon. The poverty level is astounding. I dated a Haitan girl and saw how here friends lived, it was a terrible run down place that looked like a tenement from the 30's. Unfortunately it is all they can afford.

Mike K. · #9 Posted: **Apr 20, 2012, 8:22 PM**

Love BK! Thanks for sharing these photos.

Bronxwood · #10 Posted: **Apr 20, 2012, 8:22 PM**

Ah Brooklyn! Grand Army plaza kinda reminds of Berlin with the arch. Those are some of the best streets in the country no doubt. I actually prefer prospect park over Central Park, less tourists and more of a neighborhood park. It's a great place to ride a bike and practice some stunts, neat slopes too.

OhioGuy · #11 Posted: **Apr 20, 2012, 9:46 PM**

Looks very pleasant!

CCs77 · #12 Posted: **Apr 21, 2012, 1:32 AM**

Absolutely gorgeous neighborhood

Chicago3rd · #13 Posted: **Apr 21, 2012, 2:16 PM**

Thanks for the photos! When I did my first trip to NYC as an adult in 2007...something drew me out of Manhattan to that park and the surrounding area. And it was my exploration of that area that confirmed to me that if I ever get lucky enough to live in NYC I would feel totally at home in the area you shot! Thanks for the fantastic photos!

Crawford · #14 Posted: **Apr 21, 2012, 8:33 PM**

Your route took you about 100 ft. from my home. I have to say I like your choice in neighborhoods.

This is a really comprehensive photothread, and I particularly enjoyed the shots around Grand Army Plaza and the Arch. Great shots!

J. Will · #15 Posted: **Apr 21, 2012, 8:52 PM**

I like the contrast of the glass building to the older buildings.

The Jerk · #16 Posted: **Apr 28, 2012, 5:52 PM**

Every building in the series which looks like the one below is a Trump Building; Fred Trump, the nice guy who unfortunately bred "The Donald". Fred built middle class towers back when there was a middle class in NYC.

The Jerk · #17 Posted: **Apr 28, 2012, 6:08 PM**

These are the Ebbets Apts, built on Ebbets Field. You can see why Brooklynites are still pissed off. It's a section 8 housing project now. There's a plaque at home plate

SpongeG · #18 Posted: **May 3, 2012, 7:57 PM**

great pics, never seen that side of brooklyn before, looks nice

giovanni sasso · #19 Posted: **May 3, 2012, 8:04 PM**

nice one, jerk! good idea and execution here. nice to see brooklyn painted up in bicycle greens. the ebbets field housing is a travesty.

Swinefeld · #20 Posted: **May 5, 2012, 12:17 AM**

Awesome tour. I took a stroll through the neighborhood two years ago (focusing mostly on the westside of Prospect Park) and thought it was one of the greatest neighborhoods in New York.

Thanks for sharing!