I propose a Kings Highway Heritage Bike Path

(the picture above Cortelyou & Schenectady)
Usually, to get to Canarsie, I take Bedford Avenue to Clarendon. This route roughly follows parallel to the the old Indian pathways that ran along what is now Flatbush and Cortelyou. Today at Bedford and Cortelyou I decided to ride down Cortelyou (which doesn't have a bike lane. Clarendon does). Cortelyou was once called Canarsie Road -- and the route it follows was the Indian pathway to the planting lands in Canarsie. What a nice ride. A quiet road (even has speed bumps). It's a road until Schenectady where it becomes a little lane / driveway. This got me thinking. How great would it be if the DOT laid down bike lanes on roads or sections of roads that were once Indian pathways? Why not? And they could even paint these lanes in a different color from the green lanes. They could become our heritage bike paths.
Many of our main roads were once Indian pathways: Fulton, Court, Atlantic, Kings Highway, Flatbush, 4th/3rd Avenues. I propose they start with Kings Highway. It runs east - west across the belly of the borough. The Indians called this path Mechawanienck "the ancient pathway". The settlers widened it into a carriage road an renamed it King's Highway in 1704. On the NYC Cycling map much of Kings Highway is designated "planned/proposed route" so it seems a logical step to lay down a heritage bike lane. They could eventually come up with a system of bike lanes that followed the old paths. These heritage bike lanes would make roads safer for bikes and pedestrians. The historical component would enrich the experience of moving around the borough and has the potential help us connect us more deeply to this place.