Local teacher walking every block in Brooklyn finds forgotten history along the way

""I was a sub, so I was working at different schools. So I started walking home from different schools and I started mapping it out,""

""There are a lot of memorials all over Brooklyn that I never knew about,""

""This is Ten Eyck Street," he said. "It's a Dutch name. It actually means 'of the Oak' and the Ten Eyck family actually came over to New Amsterdam in the 1630s. So almost 400 years ago, they were like one of the founding families of New York.""

Christopher Burke is a Brooklyn native and public school math teacher who began walking every block of Brooklyn in 2019. He started walking home from different schools while subbing and began mapping those routes as a personal challenge and way to connect with home. He meticulously tracks progress on his phone and estimates he has covered almost the entire western half of the borough, now more than halfway through. He photographs old trolley tracks, statues, and historic architecture, notes areas under construction like Coney Island, and finds enduring places such as Ten Eyck Street and a Williamsburg monument dedicated to a nearly forgotten history.

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