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I've been trying to remember what my block used to sound like.

I live in Brooklyn.

I've been pretty much inside for a couple weeks now.

And while I've been here, my street's changed.

The mosque, two doors down, it doesn't wake me up with the call to prayer anymore.

The bus still goes by, but I never seem to hear it. This eerie quiet in my corner of the city,

sometimes I worry it's misleading. It's easy to fill the silence with whatever you think is true.

The birds seem louder, but so do the sirens.

What are your sources telling you about what is about to happen this week?

The last few days have been increasingly alarming.

I called up Liz Kim, who reports for Gothamist and WNYC, to get the news from the other

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