Exploring Sunset Park: A Brooklyn Walking Adventure

Brooklyn's hidden gems surprise those who wander beyond the famous spots, revealing unique parks and vibrant communities.

### Exploring Brooklyn: A Journey Through Sunset Park and Beyond
* 🌆 Welcome back to another episode of the Everyday World, where we embark on a potential loop of Brooklyn, starting at the **Micro Center near the 36th Street end stop** in Sunset Park.
* 🚶 Our journey takes us south towards Coney Island, aiming to **stay as close to the water as possible**, despite obstacles like construction and restricted areas.
* 🖥 Micro Center offers a vast selection of **DIY PC components**, pre-built systems, and accessories, catering to tech enthusiasts and those looking to **extend the life of their computers**.
* 🏙 As we pass Industry City, a hub of commercial activity, I reflect on my mood and music choices, shifting from **Money Man** to a **Russian rap phase**.
* 🌧 A sudden change in weather brings rain, prompting thoughts about **safety** and the juxtaposition of **lush parks next to abandoned buildings**, highlighting the area's **contrasts**.
* 🐱 Along the way, I encounter a group of cats and abandoned train tracks, further emphasizing the **unique character** of this part of Brooklyn.
* 🏞 My exploration leads to the discovery of Bush Terminal Park, a hidden gem with **athletic fields and scenic views**, reminding me of the **beauty found off the beaten path**.
* 🚉 As the rain intensifies, I decide to head back towards the train station, reflecting on the day's adventures and the **unexpected sights that make Brooklyn so intriguing**.

so welcome back to another episode of the everyday world. Uh, this is the beginning of what might become a loop of Brooklyn. I'm not sure exactly whether that's where I'm going to go with this. Uh, but in any case, um, what better place to start one, if that's what it turns out to be, than the micro center located um, near the 36th Street end stop on the west side of Brooklyn in Sunset Park. Um, we're going to start out by walking South towards uh, Coney Island, Ford Hamilton Parkway, um, and all that kind of jazz. And we're going to try to stick to uh, being as close to the water uh, as we can get most of the time. Now, that's not always going to be possible. Uh, we'll see here. We're probably not going to be able to come right out to the water um, but we'll try just like with our Loop of Manhattan, which is up on the channel. Um, now sometimes you end up getting pushed away from the water, whether it's

by construction or some kind of compound that is off-limits to the general public. A lot of times at the margins over here, there'll be like power stations, waste processing facilities, just some kind of, I don't know, junk lots. Well, not junk lots, not at the not at the freaking um, sorry, I'm on my phone trying to make sure that the recording is happening as expected. By the way, over here um, there's a little bit of a mle. It's not apparent looking at this just floor and the cor sign, but there's like a World Market in there or there used to be anyway. There used to be a bit Bath and Beyond in here as well, so maybe they're renovating and maybe things have changed, but uh, there are a lot of businesses, large stores in this building, and then Micro Center, of course, is just a chain of more DIY uh PC stuff. They don't only have PCS, they have mac, they have uh prefab uh laptops, they have their own

brand of pre-built PCs called PowerSpec, I think. Um, but they also sell all kinds of components in case you want to build your own. You want to go on logical increments or whatever you want to, you know, uh, save $200, uh, in return for having no warranty, having to spend like 30 hours doing research and assembly, etc. I I've done it. I mean, I I enjoy it, but I think that it's just kind of one of those things that, uh, you don't really do it to save money. You do it to feel like, to just feel cool or to have a little more control over exact, you know, whatever, just for cache or, or because you actually enjoy, uh, the assembly. This just like snapping pre-built pieces together. Anyway, you're not, no, you're not designing the circuit layout of the GPU board. Um, anyway, I actually have nothing against doing that. It's cool. It's a, actually, I think one, one, uh, one way, one thing, uh, one use case where I'm totally on board with the DIY component thing is when you

have a pre-built and one component fries or just becomes obsolete. That's a great way to extend the life of a computer instead of wasting a ton of parts that are still good. Maybe most, maybe your hard drive blew out or your graphics card sucks now even more than when you got the computer. You just want to swap in a decent mid-range graphics card. You swap it in, you immediately fry the stock PSU that they put in there. Uh, but there you go, get the new PSU, doesn't fit in your case for your pre-build. You go back, you get a new case, now you're having a good time. No, but jokes aside, like it's a great way to extend the life of a computer and reduce waste, save money. In that case, you do really save money. Uh, yeah, and so, and then so Micro Center has all that stuff, graphics cards, hard drives, memory sticks, what have you. Uh, and then they also have all the accessories, of course, you know, like Best Buy, but much more complete, much

wider selection, much more like a Radio Shack, and they also have all this kind of like young roboticist type stuff like Arduino boards and little packets of, I don't know, little components that you can put on your little robots. They got an extremely wide selection of cables, connectors, like an IT manager's paradise, for people for whom it is a vocation and not just a way out of inner-city poverty, which is fine, but you know, there are a subset of people who just like, they really like it. That place is catnip. Alright, so we're heading south past Industry City, which is this kind of, I don't know, what Sunset Park's answer to Hudson Yards. I'm not doing it justice right now. It just looks very boring from the outside. It's also boring inside, but there's at least more commercial activity. You know, there's like a comic shop, there's a hipster bar, there's some bocce ball bar where you can come with your graphic design.

friends, man, I'm in a good mood today. I'm just talking about everybody and everything, feeling feisty. I remember last time I was walking around here a few months ago, I was listening to Money Man. Now I don't feel like listening to Money Man. I'm going through a Russian rap phase. Money Man underrated though. I mean, he just has the most generic name. It's hard to believe that he could be like pretty good, but he's better than his name. You do believe. I think he like flipped narrow like good, not quite good enough to really blow, but good. Maybe not enough variety, not just in terms of flow, in terms of my mooding sometime. I'm sorry, sometimes if I'm trying to walk and I'm getting in people's way and they're getting in my way, we try to let each other through. It doesn't work perfectly, but we try. That bus looks so sad. Look at that bus. It's like it looks deflated. Oh goodness, I want to give it a slap, snap out of [Music].

it f violence is an expression of love and concern is I guess out of fashion at the moment and but uh you know fashion is what it is it's cyclical right so there's a Costco over here you can go in the Costco purchase cheap items and then you can get out and now you're an industry City I don't know what that means I don't know what industry they they're talking about look feels like it might rain which would be fun I hly don't mind oh look at that you can see that's you know one World Trade over there in downtown Manhattan and I think they are indeed getting rained on right now just a very fresh Cool Breeze ruffling my hair right now I think I just wish you could feel it I wish you could feel the breeze you got to come out here you know see it says IC for industry City over here but I've been working in a startup world for so long I just as soon as I see IC the only thing I can think is individual

contributor. I see four. I see five. I see six. Now that I'm a manager, I don't really contribute anymore, but I have to help other people contribute. That's even more fun, actually. I think even when I was younger, um, ever since a pretty young age, I've liked helping by enabling more than direct, you know, like work effort, uh, you know, trying. So, management path is the right path for me. Better leave the actual doing to people who are more competent than me. I don't think I can go there. I don't think I'm going to be able to get through, so I'm actually going to, as nice as the wind is, I'm also afraid of the geese. I'm going to turn around, and I'm going to go this way, take a right over here. You don't play, man. All right, I'm actually going to try something. So, one thing I've noticed is, oh, not. I'm going to reposition the camera a little bit. So, I noticed that in some of my

videos um you don't really get as much of the a vertical slice as I would like of the scene. Like you see street level and kind of Second Story stuff, but there's a lot of interesting stuff above the second story that I don't want you to miss out on if I can help it. But at the same time, I'm lazy. I'm too lazy to hold the camera in my hand, so like chest strap it is. But can I position it a little better? Maybe car had a bad time. It's just a lazy day today like every other day for me. I did some experimenting, toying with the idea of adding some virtual content to the channel, continuing to experiment with it. I recorded some stuff of me exploring GTA 4 version of New York, and it's just right at the border of like is it, you know, realistic enough for the vibe that I want for the channel. I'm not like running around and exploding anything, but you know NPC behaviors are in GTA.

games and just games in general are very caricatured and representations of cities with real places are so abstracted and distorted and just juiced up. They don't have trust that if you just show the world as it is that people are going to be interested enough. I'm sorry, there's cats. This is more important than anything that I'm saying clearly. Here we go, there's a bunch of cats and we're going to take pictures right now. The cats, I don't need food to give them. Sorry, I don't mean to like super disturb you all. I just want to just say hi and look at you, have a nice day, cats. Yeah, this is definitely like, wow, look at this. It's just like an abandoned train car that is just straight up Half-Life, just straight up Half-Life level design. I don't know, I'm just sorry. I want to show you a little more what I'm seeing right now on my

Right, so abandoned train tracks. You go, girl. Say like a nose. Is it a pimple nose? What is that? What is saying that? Confused beud. I think there's a lot of people here living in converted cars. Not converted, just living in cars. Living in cars, living in vans. You do see that on the outskirts of Brooklyn. I've seen that in Manhattan too, like on the Upper East Side, for example, kind of where the train repair yards are, where the department of sanitation is. Sorry, um, trying to remember if I've seen it in Queens so far, but I don't think so. I don't think I have, actually. Not to say that it's not the case. There probably is. I just don't remember seeing it. You can look through all my Queens videos and see if you can spot it. If you spotted, let me know. Got a few Queens videos up now. Walk down of Queens Boulevard. I walk down of um Broadway Avenue, the one in Queens, and then um uh what.

else no um I think that's it at the moment, but I'm planning to do more. I'm planning to go to like, uh, R Island, and he said that he has the batteries for he, uh, probably planning a walk down of like r [Music]. I actually don't know if I've ever walked this far, this close to the, uh, to the water. There's a lot of just abandoned, like, large scale Bandos, kind of like what is going on over here, like what was this, what is just apartment buildings, uh, by the water, and like why would that have been abana. Also notice we're already south of, uh, Manhattan. That's World Trade, that's the southern tip of Manhattan over there. So if we're looking out over the water over here, which we are like right now, that's like, uh, Jersey, Jersey City, Bon, um, which is a city south of Jersey City, uh, and then after a while it's going to be Staten Island, but not yet, I don't think, right? So yeah, you can see here I think it's

Most of these kinds of vans or buses are actually just people living in them. [Music] But of course, that's not all. Some buyers parked here. Some people just have cool rocks that they... This is what the situation is, by the way, to our left. Like if we just look, if we went over even one block, it would get quickly, get like significantly more commercial and more just kind of like, you know, car repair shop. It's still kind of more rough and industrial than if you go two or three avenues east, 'cause right now we're on the west side of Brooklyn, the very west side, the west coast of Brooklyn, we could say, walking south down the west coast of Brooklyn towards the southwest corner of Brooklyn, essentially. Oh, that's a cool sign. Look at that Sunset Self Storage. So this is probably a good place to rent some self-storage, probably relatively inexpensive. Also, you could support what looks to be maybe like more of an independent business.

local business who knows it could be a Malayan multinational conglomerate. I don't know, but I don't think so. Small details of authenticity are actually not that easy to get right, although, of course, it could have been a real deal at one point, and then they had to sell. Okay, oh, there's a park here, and it looks to be open to the public, so I'm going to go in. Okay, 43rd Street entrance is temporarily closed, but we actually don't need the 43rd Street entrance because the Bush Terminal Pierce Park can be entered and exited right over here. A Bush terminal, is that like George Bush? And if so, which George Bush? I've never been, never been here. Honestly, if I didn't see that just like cheerful family biking down this way, I might have thought twice about coming down here. It's not that I'm a coward, I just um, you know, I don't want to make my mother worried, my poor mother. I want to take all these risks um, do all these dangerous and exciting

things, but my mother's peace of mind is more important. What the bro, what? There's like a whole field, SP Sports field over what the. It's just Bandos, holy. I had no idea this area existed. Look at this, people got to be like, there got to be people living in there, right? Okay, like this is, listen, correct me if I'm wrong, but like this is not an area where you should come after dark, probably, right? Like, correct me if I'm wrong. I don't think it's unreasonable to be cautious in this situation. I have, I just never even knew that there was a park here. I mean, I didn't even know that there were these bandas here, so I didn't know about the park. Okay, I guess actually the park extends further north. Not going to do that, but I'm going to go towards the water and see if I can see something. If I see something, um, I'm gonna say something, bro. You know, it's kind of moments like this why I do this.

uh, when I get a chance to surprise myself with something like this, that really makes uh, and of course, a lot of the time I'm walking around, I'm always having a nice time, but of course, a lot of the time it's like kind of bland, kind of boring, but the thing is, if you go to like the famous places, you're just never going to get this kind of moment. I don't stay away from the famous places, but I'm saying if you only go to the famous places, damn man, I'm going to put post this on on inst and be like name that Park. Okay, let to be a little careful here, technically like some bar wire or whatever, but we're good, we're champions BR. It's like the advanced version of that test name that part. I mean, it's a fantastic place to come and do hard drugs, right? There's some people taking pictures, so I'm going to let them do their thing and then I'll take my turn once they're done. You can see the verizo bridge over there.

I believe, uh, we got a long way to go before we get unless actually probably I'm mistaken. That's probably the bridge that goes over from Bom, uh, over to, uh, Staten Island. I think that's Staten Island over there, and we're going to walk down this way, down this way, but, uh, yeah, so that's obviously Manhattan over there. Well, I don't want to say obviously. That is Manhattan over there with the One World Trade Center being the One World Trade, the tallest building that looks like the two towers that were destroyed, coming together into one, uh, around it is the downtown area at the southern tip of, um, Manhattan, further to the right, so North. You can see, uh, the Empire State Building, Chrysler Tower, and to the right, uh, that more closer to the foreground and the Ikea, uh, that's in Red Hook in Fort North. So, we'll, um, when we coming to the end of our Loop of Brooklyn, which is going to be much, much, much longer than our Loop of Manhattan, we will, uh, swing by that Ikea in that

neighborhood anyway of Red Hook and then beyond the Ikea a little bit further to the right. I think what you're seeing is like downtown Brooklyn, if I'm not mistaken. Further to the left, to the left of Manhattan, you see Jersey City on the other side of the Hudson River, facing, looking a little bit like Manhattan's slightly younger, homelier brother. And then to the left is, of course, the Statue of Liberty. And I wonder, you know, I know if we can make out some of the, I don't know if you can make it out, there's like a grouping of buildings low to the ground with the look like a terracotta roof. I believe that is an old railroad terminus in Liberty State Park in Jersey City. So Southeast Jersey City, but I could be wrong. If that's correct, then there's a beautiful 911 memorial over there that is in one of my videos, actually. Take a look. It's like two polished steel walls.

close together, facing each other, and you walk in between them, and there's reflection. It's a quiet space, and there's kind of like a light at the end of the tunnel, you know, metaphorically and literally. And as a lot of the main people who died at the tip of Manhattan, so between kind of Jersey City and Manhattan, you could see that there is some greenery that's at Battery Park, made famous, of course, by DARS X, the video game released around the turn of the millennium. And then here we have a vision of the sublime. Anyway, moving on, I hear some thunder. This is one of the weirdest parks that I've ever been to in my life because it's got just like lush greenery, nice little athletic fields for the kids, and then just like burnt-out husks of apartment buildings right next to that juxtaposition. Much all right, let me not suffer a grievous injury over here. Grievous injury avoided for the

moment of course that is something that we can only delay, never avoid. Oh, I just saw some lightning, boys and girls. We're about to get rained on. Did you see that video of the guy in the elevator with the e-bike battery? It's overcharged, and it just catches fire and explodes and kills them in the elevator. It's like elevator security cam footage. My friend Victor Cairo shared it recently on Facebook, and I watched that ever since then. I just like do not feel safe when e-bike batteries are around. I'm not getting into any elevators or e-bike batteries. I don't trust people to have charged them to an appropriate level and not overcharge them, number one. Number two, I don't trust quality control of those things at all. All right, we're going to leave the same way that we came because I don't want to, you know, go back not knowing whether there's an exit there when it's starting to get a little dark. I do not want to

be in the spark after dark. Number one, number two. I want to continue for the South, and that's in this direction. I'm just, I'm curious how. I mean, the building looks like it's in reasonable repair, actually. It's just the windows that look all busted and boarded up. Uh, what, what was this? Was this condos that it just didn't work out? Was this factory of some kind? There's a shaftway here, so yeah, maybe a factory. It's probably a high school still operational. Gu, it's good enough for the pors. They're going to be retail slaves anyway. Holy, I think it really may, really may have been a school, because look at, I mean, the mural is like a school type mural, right? I check picture. This will make for a good thumbnail for the video and increase engagement. I did this. What? I did this for real. Yeah, really on the school. You did that? Yeah, like the St and Stu. Yeah, and I was part of it. That's sick, man. That's awesome. What's your name? What? Oh, what's your name? Robin.

Robin, awesome job man, that's cool, damn, all right. Okay, so I guess it was like a school that did the mural together, but the place used to be a paper factory. That's what it says, Donald paper. Donald paper is kind of a good name, like M. Yeah, I'm paper, Donald paper. Don paper. I'm the Don of paper, Mr. Don paper. It's kind of delicious with it. Guess nobody uses paper anymore though, so they have to close up shop. They could only paper over the cracks in the business model for so long before they ran out of paper to make paper, and now they've gone from paper baron to baron popper. An American tragedy. I'd L myself out, but I lost the key. The is that you hear that? Do he hear that, or was I ding? Please try TR back in time to respond to me right now from the time that you're watching this video at. Thank you. You know, here's the thing, I'm hoping that this is going to be one of those things where it's just

like a bunch of thunder, a bunch of lightning, then the rain comes down for like 5 minutes, and then it's over. But it could definitely turn out to be a different story. whale whale brooklyn.com. What is that? Is that like a condo? I'm going to look that up on the Internet. Also, do that used to be a storage tank, and where they never put it in or deal with that? We continue. I'm scared of getting hit by lightning, of course, but I don't know. It's just one of those things. If it happens, it happens, you know. I like the insides of Teslas. They're so clean. I mean, it's kind of terrible because it's just everything is a consumer appliance. You don't control anything. It's like an iPad. So from a privacy, from an agency standpoint, it's absolute horror. From an aesthetic standpoint, it's wonderful, or at least it's one nice aesthetic. I do also like the messy piles of quartz and dials everywhere aesthetic.

as well. It's for different aesthetic witson enhancing life one meal at a time. Hi, welcome back um to uh I guess a loop of Brooklyn, first part of a loop of Brooklyn. We're at 54th Street and 1st Avenue in um maybe South Sunside Park is what I probably neighborhood is on the west side of Brooklyn and uh I don't know why I'm saying this actually because I'm going to spice this with the previous part of the video. It's from habit from when I didn't used to do that. I just had to replace the battery so now we're back in business. Battery replac witson is enhancing life one meal at a time and I just wanted to take a picture of that just as uh battery ran out just forgive me for thinking that this looks a little glum. Wow, are you seeing this? Are you hearing this? A thunder. The thing is if it rains uh that we'll get wet or I'll get wet here see for who's eating the pizza around.

here let's see broken wholesale meat market sort like a bar Midland meat packing New York incorporated King Solon food pess fish this is a just want to take a picture of this crepini the crap team I felt uh I felt some drops drops of rain rainfall if that's what it takes oh look at this Brooklyn Army terminal wait what what is this so this isn't Fort Hamilton yet we're way far north of Fort Hamilton look at that what a view huh oh yeah there we go there it comes there it comes baby All right let's head towards Building B and if you this is the Avenue that we just came down we're looking at north towards downtown Brooklyn right now and that uh Tower of Saran orank that is in downtown Brooklyn they were like we cannot let have S let San Francisco have the most Sinister looking Tower We got to build our own and they did a good job It's Sinister as Google I guarantee Google is got to it's going to autogenerate thumbnail

from this because it's a person, and there's red color. You took my headphones off, so I know. Is that a risk, dangerous to listen to music on your phone, on your headphones while it's raining? I actually don't know. Oh, we're going to get so wet now. We're walking away from the water a little bit because we have to go around the Army compound. So you see what I mean? Sometimes you just get pushed away from the water. You can't help it, really, like the water. It's kind of like that first chapter of Moby Dick, you know, when he's talking about how Ishmael is talking about how everybody comes down to the water, how true that is. But the nice thing about rain is it's water coming to you. You don't even have to go anywhere. All right, I let the bikers have their lay. Oh, they're doing cool tricks. We should cultivate a culture of physical fitness in our society so that more people can do cool on bicycles and

Everybody enjoys how cool everybody looks and gets more pleasure out of life. The Bro, the Army C, it's right, right. This is an army building of some kind, yeah, red, yeah, right there. Hey, I knew an answer. This is where I got the PC that I tried to play flight simulator on, Star PC computer store. That dude looked like he's just been hanging out with Plies on a boat, or maybe that's the plug. Oh, FES better watch out. Oh, Jesus Christ. All right, I'm officially scared. I don't want to be the highest thing where I am. I want to be not the highest thing where I am. Brooklyn Army terminal, there it is. What is it? If I [Music] [Music] know. Look at these neat little houses. They're not road houses, so there's, you know, freestanding. I think when people say row houses, they mean they're all connected in a row. They're modest, quote unquote, but in reality, you know, unless you have like three or four kids like you do, not absolutely do not.

need more space than that. Like, you don't even need that much space. Probably never live in a house that you can't clean on your own easily. Oh, okay, it's raining. Not like hard, but yeah, I feel myself getting rained out on for sure. B now we weed. Oh, I have some soil. That's great. I'm going to be hungry in a minute. Yeah, some kind of high apartment buildings over here that you can actually... These are kind of iconic. You can kind of see them coming down. Let's say you're coming down Third or Fourth Avenue, as you see them from way far away, from like the 30s, from the 40s. The rain's getting stronger now. I'm going to have to remember to wipe the lens periodically. Prob we get some kind of lens protector for these kinds of situations because it's like, uh, you know, it's hard to keep the LS clean, but the waterproof thing, knock knock knock on wood, knock on wood, seems to be relatively solid. How the go

All right, I'll wait a little bit to see if it calms down. I like the rain, but also, I'm going to have to get back on the trade at some point. I don't want to terrify the people I'm on play with. It's too late. It's too late. Oh no, I'm so... I wanted to go play poker tonight, but let this happen. Well, that's okay. I'll wake up tomorrow a $0000 for sure than I would have otherwise. Very sleepy, legit. I would actually walk if I didn't think that the camera would just not be able to record, but I'm worried that there will be too much water on the camera for it to work well. All right, it just keeps going. I'm tired of waiting. I'm bored. Work [Music]. It's pretty wet, coming down pretty hard [Music]. It's actually hard for me to see where I am or like what's going on, but here's a little map. Hopefully, you can see that.

bit uh we are like over here. Oh yeah, we're actually right over here. So actually, you know, between it coming down this hard and it being um uh yeah, between it coming down this hard and it being uh kind of late, I am actually going to just go and to the train and catch the train, of course, also keeping in mind that as soon as us start walking through the Train, the rain will slow down and ease up and uh, that'll be great 'cause I'll be able to change my mind and go back and continue recording. I just got I have water slashing around inside my shoes like it's not even like the fabric of my shoes is what I just feel like Go slash [Music] slash this say I guess the cor Coral no, not it can't be the coralan expressway 'cause that's a Roman Emperor. That's something that sounds kind of like that, not Corona. Corona is in look at that wow the water, the amount of the water is large. It's funny that I thought that it

might not rain after all. I was like, Holy my all right Third Avenue this way. I think it's a train, so we go, Let's go catch an end train back to Manhattan. Let's just check the map real quick, and that's on First Avenue actually. Fourth Avenue. Fourth Avenue is where the r is and the n in the r. Okay, so we just need to go one more Avenue over, right? Fourth Avenue, first beautiful Parkway, beautiful Highway. As highways go, right, it's pretty nice looking, all the trees, and look at that, look at that. That is some freaking, that a nice little skate spot actually. [Music] Of course, of course, the rain is dying down right away, and the thing is because it's summer, there's just going to be like a blow dryer that's going to like dry you off, make you warm again if the sun comes out, or that would be the case during the day, right? Right now, it is a little bit late, so it is a little bit chilly. Imagine you're running one of

those marathons, like that woman did, which just the Barkley marathons. And you get rained on like this in the first, like, 5 miles, let's say, of day two, right? And now you have to run 20 more miles on that day, and then you got to, you know, run like 50 more miles on the next days, and it's dark, and it's, uh, colder. Yeah, have fun. The cut-off time for the Barkley Marathon is, uh, 60 hours. Uh, and it's not a, it's not a marathon, it's a, it's 100 miles. There's something along those lines, maybe even more. It's so cool, so badass. People who can finish that, finish that. There have only been a couple dozen people who ever finished it, if that. The woman who did it this year, forget her name, uh, but she's like, uh, pretty close to my age, actually. She's like 42, a couple years younger than me, but not much. I think you need to be a little older to do those kinds of

challenges. It's, uh, you need physical fitness, but most of the skills you really need are mental skills. I think toughness, resilience, like wisdom, perspective, general maturity. It's not the kind of stuff that comes automatically with age, but it's just the kind of stuff that you need. Age, you need time to build. Nothing comes automatically with age except infirmity and disease, okay? That little life experience, I guess it's hard to avoid. It's hard to completely avoid amassing some useful experience, but it's pretty drip-drip-drip. I say you're not being effortful about it. Alright, so about six blocks north to the 59th Street NNR. Oh yeah, this I believe is actually just a big Q. Could be onong. So next time when we're picking up our walk, we're going to just come to 59th, and we're going to start from there. AA. I want to go go-karting. There's a go-karting place in Jersey City that I want to go.

to it's so far from my house. It's like 5 miles, so I should probably bike there. Although I could do a nice little, like, if it's not hot, it's a good distance for just an easy run. But if it's hot, then I like to wait until the evening to run. But then the place is closed. You can see how difficult my life is. That's the Cyclone, baby. What they call the screamer in GTA 4. You got to be careful, you know, if you play too much of these video games that take place in factual representations of real cities. You might start confusing what's real and what's virtual. I started calling the Cyclone the screamer, vice versa. I'll just, yeah, I'll walk down this street again when it's good weather, when we're coming back, so that if, uh, you know, you can't see now because of the raindrops on the camera, or you just get a different perspective on it. Look at that Brooklyn games and arcade. Brooklyn games and

arcade that's cool. What they got over here. Oh, look at that. They got like Genesis games. They got old school stuff. Wow, that's cool. All right. I don't know if they're closing up shop or what's going on. It was a little unclear why there were so many people that a dark with the lights off it. What I I could totally I would totally have some food right now, but I just you can't go into a restaurant wet than a you know than a fish. You might just fry me up with some lemon and Thyme boy. Here we go train station. Here we go. All right. I'll see you in the next one.

Brooklyn perimeter loop - part 1!

BobbyRunout's The Everyday World

The journey begins at the Micro Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, with a plan to walk south towards Coney Island while staying close to the water.

The Micro Center offers a wide range of DIY PC components, pre-built laptops, and accessories, catering to those who enjoy building their own computers.

The walk also takes us past Industry City, which offers commercial activities like a comic shop and a hipster bar, although its exterior and interior may appear boring.

The speaker is in a good mood, reminiscing about their music preferences and the people around them.

They reflect on their management role and the joy of enabling others to contribute.

The speaker experiments with camera positioning for their videos and contemplates adding virtual content, all while being distracted by a group of cats and an abandoned train car.

Life on the Outskirts: Abandoned Spaces and Van Dwellers

The narrator observes people living in converted cars and vans on the outskirts of Brooklyn, with a similar sight in Manhattan.

They explore abandoned buildings by the water and notice the rough, industrial atmosphere of the area.

The narrator discovers a public park and sports field, expressing surprise at the existence of these spaces and the presence of abandoned structures.

The speaker enjoys unexpected moments during their walks, finding them more memorable than visiting famous places.

They describe the view of Manhattan, Staten Island, and Jersey City, highlighting notable landmarks like the One World Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty.

The park they are in offers a unique juxtaposition of lush greenery and burnt-out apartment buildings, creating a surreal atmosphere.

The Impact of E-Bike Batteries and Urban Exploration

The speaker expresses a newfound fear of e-bike batteries after watching a video of one catching fire and causing a fatal accident.

They explore a building with boarded-up windows, speculating it was a factory or school, and encounter someone who helped create a mural there.

The speaker reflects on the decline of the paper factory's business and shares their thoughts on the aesthetic of Tesla's interiors.

The narrator is in South Sunset Park, Brooklyn, capturing the neighborhood's vibe and noting the rainy weather.

They pass by various food and meat markets, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and reflect on the area's architecture.

The narrator emphasizes the importance of physical fitness and community, while also sharing personal memories and observations along the way.

The narrator reflects on the importance of living in a manageable space and observes iconic high-rise buildings while getting caught in the rain.

They struggle with the camera's lens and contemplate the impact of the weather on their plans for the evening.

As the rain intensifies, they decide to catch a train back to Manhattan, noting the change in weather and the potential for the sun to come out and warm them up.

The Barkley Marathon is a brutal 100-mile race with a 60-hour cut-off time, known for its tough conditions and mental challenges.

Only a few dozen people have ever completed the race, with the latest female finisher being close to the speaker's age.

The speaker emphasizes that mental skills, toughness, and life experience are crucial for succeeding in such extreme challenges.