Ditmars Street runs for one block between Broadway and Myrtle Avenue in Bushwick. It’s unremarkable in every way, except that there is an elevated train at both ends, so it’s probably the only one-block street in NYV for which that claim can be made. Here we are facing the last remnant of the old Myrtle Avenue that once ran from Metropolitan Avenue west across the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan. The unused flyover brought trains over the Broadway el.
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