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I'm Lori Lissaraga.

And I'm B.A. Parker.

Last year, I found myself guiding Lori on an impromptu city tour.

It's cooler on here.

Yeah.

We are thankful for trees.

Wow. There's a place I've been reading about that I really want to visit while I'm in the city. From Midtown, it's about as far south toward the East River as you can go. There's a cab ride, a half-mile walk, and a subway involved. As you exit, please be careful of the gap between the place. And you needed help figuring out which train to get on. Oh no, that's good, that's good.

You get off the Brooklyn Bridge. We're on our way to Chinatown. And then we walk 0.4 miles.

And then we'll get to Mont Street.

Lori, you got this. You take it from here. After all it took to get here, the first thing I noticed about this neighborhood is the quiet. It feels very, very bubbled in and protected from

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