DURATIONS: Ditchers Eddy

Before

Long walk · 0.5 mi · 9 min walk; 2 min ride - Boerum Hill

A dark narrow French café on lower Smith Street, open since the late 1990s, with a zinc-look bar and small marble tables. A back garden is behind them. The pancakes are what it is known for and they come out thick with a crisp edge, but it also does steak frites and a croque monsieur all day. It is cash only, which catches people out, and there is an ATM up the street.

After

0.4 mi · 8 min walk - Gowanus

A dark bar on Third Avenue named for the waterway a block away, with a jukebox, a pool table and prices that have not tracked the neighborhood. Happy hour runs from three in the afternoon to eight, Monday through Friday. It closes at four in the morning every night of the week.