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Today’s route — 16.7 miles

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401 Avenue J

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Porcupine Puffer

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This is apparently from some fish-related card game called "Fish Card Game".

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Eebees

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a.k.a. Eebee's Fashion Express

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Another case

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of David v. Goliaths

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Is that a fire escape?

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It is.

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The duct tape solution

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To what, I don't know.

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Jewish head coverings

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On this corner, hats. Across the street, wigs.

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9/11 memorial #35, revisited

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Here's a close-up. Things have changed a little since we last passed by.

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BuffBoyzz Parking Only

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This-a-way!

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The arrows start all the way around the corner of the building.

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Sicilian Soccer & Billiards

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A prolific countenance

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I saw Abraham Lincoln's face quite often today — up to 16 times per intersection (4 sides per base of light/traffic signal pole x 1 face per side x 4 poles per intersection).

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is to draw Hitler mustaches on your opponents.

From the June 18, 1989 NY Times:

For the last two decades Mr. LaRouche's followers have helped him play out his fantasy that he is the leader of a Platonic ''humanist'' elite battling a centuries-old conspiracy of oligarchs who are hellbent on subjugating the planet. Mr. LaRouche, who actually seems to believe the nonsense he spouts, hasn't had to work a day since he started running his weird show. All expenses are paid by his acolytes, who peddle tracts and magazines in airports and persuade elderly people to donate (or ''loan'') large amounts of money to fight the conspirators.

Lately it seems that the conspirators are winning. Earlier this year, Mr. LaRouche was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges including mail fraud involving almost $300,000 in defaulted loans. Mr. LaRouche attributes his misfortunes to the conspiracy, an unlikely collection of collaborators said to have encompassed at various times Henry Kissinger, Timothy Leary, the K.G.B., the F.B.I., the Anti-Defamation League, the Rockefellers, Bertrand Russell, the British monarchy, Isaac Newton and Aristotle.

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Quality Furit

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& LES

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Homecrest Presbyterian Church

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This congregation was established in 1900 and is, as its website points out, the southernmost Presbyterian church in the city.

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This bear looks different

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without its makeup on.

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BLANK

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It looks like the southbound express track on the Sea Beach Line (N train) was removed quite recently starting from this point just south of the Kings Highway station. The express (inner) tracks on this line haven't been used for regular passenger service in decades, and the southbound track is largely abandoned north of here.

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HELP

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Italy via Saturn

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This car is parked in front of Maria Stella Auto Body.

Stepping into the Street View time machine...

August 2011: The name of the body shop is Dependable Auto Body. There are no national colors on display.

June 2012: Same as above.

September 2013: There is now a (seemingly closed) Mexican deli next door with two Mexican flags on its awning. The body shop has likewise added two Italian flags, one at the top of the building and one in the window. (Italian and Mexican flags are almost identical in color.) The Saturn is now parked in front of the body shop with "FOR SALE $1,500 WOW" written on its windshield, but it's just a plain red car at this point.

October 2013: The Italian flag in the window of the body shop is gone. The Saturn is still there.

September 2014: The Mexican deli has become a flagless stair supply business. The Italian flag atop the body shop is also gone, but the Saturn has acquired the flag's colors and no longer appears to be for sale. The body shop now has its current Italian-sounding name.

October 2014: The Saturn is still there, and the stair supply store seems to have gone out of business.

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Coney Island Prep High School

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A public charter school located in the former Saints Simon and Jude School building

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Portal of the day

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2364 East 7th Street

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Visible in real life, invisible in Street View

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Hedge of firethorn

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Pyracantha

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1952 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith

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