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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.

Week 47 route
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Library

Brooklyn Public Library - Homecrest, 2525 Coney Island Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11223

Streets
  • Cypress Avenue,
  • Jamaica Avenue,
  • Pennsylvania Avenue,
  • Glenwood Road,
  • Flatlands Avenue,
  • Avenue W,
  • Kings Highway,
  • Coney Island Avenue,
  • Troy Avenue,
  • Decatur Street
Parks
  • Highland Park,
  • Cypress Hills Cemetery,
  • Parade Ground,
  • St. John's Park,
  • Fulton Park
Landmarks
  • Franklin K Lane Educational Campus,
  • Thomas Jefferson High School,
  • South Shore High School,
  • James Madison High School,
  • John Dewey High School (no singers),
  • Edward R. Murrow High School,
  • Brooklyn College Academy,
  • Erasmus Hall High School,
  • George Wingate High School,
  • Boys and Girls High School,
  • Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead,
  • Enrico Caruso Museum of America
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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Published 8 May 2021