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Walkin' In Canarsie

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It's been some time since I've been in Canarsie. I haven't been assigned to any schools in the area, but I have driven along Rockaway Parkway, which can be extremely frustrating. Yesterday, I had to give someone a lift to Canarsie High School to get a vaccination. Since parking was easy to find, and I had at least a half hour to wait, I decided to take a short walk around the neighborhood. My pics of the high school didn't come out due to a combination of new phone, bright sun, polarized glasses, and user error, heavy on that last one. The school takes up two full city blocks, from Avenue J to K, and from E 95 Street to Rockaway Parkway (which would be E 97 Street). The first stop of note was a sign on a tree for Truckleman's Lane , which looking left and right on either side of the parkway, I did not see. I saw what looked like driveways or backyards. A Google search tells me that the lane does in fact exist and curves, so I wouldn't have seen the other