WALKING IN NYC - MYRTLE AVE RIDGEWOOD QUEENS

Описание: This was the last walking in NYC video that I took on Myrtle Ave in Ridgewood, Queens prior to getting the new Gimbal. There is one further NYC History video that I also shot without the Gimbal on Wall St. in Manhattan, and hopefully that one will be ready for Thursday. It needs a lot of narration and editing though so we will see.

But that is pretty much it, everything else filmed from this point forward will be with the new Gimbal. This video here wasn't too bad for shaky footage. I mean you can tell that I am not using a Gimbal, but the footage is fairly straight.

Myrtle Avenue is a 8.1-mile-long street that runs from Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn to Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill, Queens, in New York City, United States.

Queens
Myrtle Avenue has been a major thoroughfare since the early 19th century, named after the myrtle trees that were plentiful in the area. Most likely, Myrtle Avenue began in Queens and was a plank road that charged a toll. The road eventually hosted the Knickerbocker Stage Coach Line, that ran stagecoach and omnibus services. After World War I, Myrtle Avenue in Glendale was a popular destination for picnickers. With a steam trolley running on the avenue, and its ample adjacent beer gardens and park space, people from as far as Eastern Brooklyn came to Myrtle. In the mid-1920s, the parks closed as a result of Prohibition. Ultimately, the parks became incorporated by the city into what is known today as Forest Park.

Currently, Myrtle Avenue is one of the primary shopping strips of Ridgewood, along with Fresh Pond Road whose south end is at Myrtle Avenue. It is also the primary shopping strip in nearby Glendale, although this stretch of Myrtle Avenue isn't as busy as the Ridgewood stretch. It was also home to the Ridgewood Theatre, which was the longest continuously operated theater in the United States, having operated for 91 years before its closure in March 2008.

Myrtle Avenue is the starting point for several major thoroughfares in Queens that were built later. This includes Union Turnpike, whose west end is in Glendale just west of Woodhaven Boulevard, and Hillside Avenue, which starts off from Myrtle Avenue in Richmond Hill near Lefferts Boulevard.

Brooklyn
In the neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, the development of Myrtle Avenue was directly related to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, built in 1801. In 1847 Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn's first park, was built on the south side of western Myrtle Avenue. During World War II, the Navy Yard employed more than 71,000 people, many of them African American shipbuilders. As a result, the demand for housing in the area increased, prompting the New York City Housing Authority to build the Walt Whitman and Raymond Ingersoll public housing on Myrtle Avenue in 1944.

By the early 1970s the vitality of Myrtle Avenue began to decline, mainly because of the decommissioning of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the curtailing of the elevated railway. At its nadir of decline, the street became known to many Brooklynites as "Murder Avenue".

In the 1990s the western end of Myrtle Avenue was closed from Jay Street to Flatbush Avenue Extension to create the pedestrian-only MetroTech Center. Adding to the MetroTech Center's revitalization of the neighborhood, a modern revitalization movement is in effect by a collaboration of community organizations like the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project LDC, the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Improvement district BID, and the Myrtle Avenue Merchants Association.

There are references to Myrtle Avenue in hip-hop culture and rap music, reflective of the street passing through African American neighborhoods in Brooklyn. The popularity of the nickname "Murder Avenue" dates back to the minor 1993 hit of the same name by the Geto Boys.

Other artists that mention Myrtle Avenue include:

Nas refers to Willoughby and Myrtle Ave in the song "Virgo" with Ludacris and Doug E. Fresh.
Prodigy from Mobb Deep references Myrtle in "Trife Life" on The Infamous album.
Mos Def says he's from Myrtle and Broadway in the song "Champion Requiem" on The New Danger, and in the song "Mathematics" on Black on Both Sides.
Talib Kweli references the street in the Black Eyed Peas' song "Like That" - "Like a caribou running down myrtle avenue".
Digable Planets reference the avenue in the song "9th Wonder (Blackitolism)" when Butterfly rhymes - "Myrtle Ave A Train got the pick in my hair".
Prince Paul references Myrtle Avenue in his song "People, Places & Things".
Lord Jamar refers to Myrtle Avenue in the Brand Nubian song "Straight Off Tha Head"
Henry Miller in Tropic of Capricorn wrote about the horrible conditions of Myrtle Avenue.
Tory Lanez references Myrtle Ave as the birthplace of a character in his song "Pieces" from his album Memories Don't Die.
Floating Points references Myrtle Avenue, Hounslow is his song “Myrtle Avenue”
Mxmtoon released a song in 2020 entitled "Myrtle Ave"

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