Johnson St, Downtown Brooklyn

Cadman Plaza East is probably best known as the place where almost all the buses in Brooklyn begin and end. All the major crosstown lines stem from here, which makes it easy to get to City Hall and all the shops on Court Street. No one really lives here though, and the wide open spaces often attract homeless people at night in addition to the usual Fulton Mall crazies.

I really like going to Richie's gym on this street. It is in the bottom of a big building with a car body shop and a pet store next door. You can walk to lots of fast food restaurants or the M street. This street is in Bushwick, so it is kind of ugly, but what do you expect this is Brooklyn. I used to walk to the gym on this street from my house. Lots of muscle heads and guys on steroids in the gym so it wasn't great but it is the main thing going on on this street.