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Week 49

F*ck New York

Our last movie-focused walk is also our first in our home stretch of special walks covering multiple boroughs at a time. Here we draw inspiration from the 2002 Spike Lee film "25th Hour" and the Edward Norton monologue contained within called "F*ck New York." In it, Norton's character Montgomery Brogan rails against the people and neighborhoods that make this city what it is. We'll visit as much as we can of the soliloquy, from Chelsea to Wall Street, Bensonhurst, Alphabet City and everything in between.

Neighborhoods Brighton Beach, Homecrest, Bensonhurst, Mapleton, Kensington, Windsor Terrace, South Slope, Park Slope, Boerum Hill, Downtown Brooklyn, Financial District, Lower Manhattan, SoHo, Alphabet City, Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Midtown, Lenox Hill, Upper East Side, Carnegie Hill, Harlem, Randall's Island, Astoria, Dutch Kills, Long Island City

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Week 47

Most Likely to Succeed: Women Musicians and Their High Schools

Our final music-centric walk visits the high schools of Brooklyn's most famous female musicians. From Lena Horne to Barbra Streisand, Carole King to Lil' Kim, we see the institutions that made them - and sometimes made them leave.

Neighborhoods Liberty Park, Cypress Hills, Brownsville, Canarsie, Flatlands, Madison, Homecrest, Gravesend, Midwood, Kensington, Prospect Park South, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant

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Week 18

First Impressions - Lower Bay Brooklyn

This week takes us further still into the south of Brooklyn, doing a sweep of Coney Island, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach. Our return path skirts Sheepshead Bay, rolls straight through Homecrest and Midwood, goes up the Kings Highway and heads home.

Neighborhoods Weeksville, Wingate, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush, Kensington, Mapleton, Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Seagate, Coney Island, Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach, Sheepshead Bay, Homecrest, Midwood, Flatlands, East Flatbush, Remsen Village, Brownsville

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