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 Veer northwest just past 13th St. for a quick stroll through Mary Fox Park.

 Turn north on 14th St. and enjoy this quiet stretch of cottages and bungalows before leaving the Fourth Ward.

 Turn west on Lomas. The sudden increase in traffic and nearby businesses—a smoke shop and a pawn shop—contributes to a dramatic shift in atmosphere. Gertrude Zachary Jewelry Etc., the indigo-tiled structure ahead, is hard to ignore (as is her castle in ssss1). Pick up the scent of Monroe’s Mexican Food and follow it down to its classic neon sign shaped like a heart and arrow. Customers have loved this restaurant since it opened in 1962 as a small drive-in.

 At the Manzano Day School, you might find it easier to use the crosswalk here to reach the north side of Lomas, then rejoin the marked route a quarter mile later at the west corner of Central and San Felipe. Or you can stay on course and negotiate the traffic at the Y-junction of Lomas and Central. The landscaped archipelago of traffic islands there, known as the Phil Chacon Transit-Pedestrianway, is maintained by the city’s Park Management Division. On September 10, 1980, Albuquerque police officer Phil Chacon was volunteering at a shelter for battered women when two children who lived at the shelter alerted him to a robbery at the nearby Kinney shoe store. Unarmed and in civilian clothing, the off-duty officer chased a hooded bandit to a doughnut shop, where the suspect turned and gunned down Chacon. The murder remains unsolved. A city park and a police substation have also been named in his honor.