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5th Avenue in Bay Ridge, is a typical Bay Ridge street where you can find a mix of brand name stores/resturants and smally shops and Delis. I don't know about other areas where this street might extend to. The traffic in this street is fairly normal. It's neither quiet nor congested. In this street you can find the municipal parking garage. Also the Bay Ridge branch of USPS is well located in this street. in the upper streets (the 90's) you can find KFC and Staples. Subway, Burger King, and Dunkin Donut are here on 5th Avenue of Bay Ridge. A lot of 99 cents stores and middle eastern Hala meat shops are situated in this street between the 70's and the 80's.

This is a crwoded street with a really, truly dangerous areas of crossing to the other sides of the street. Besides the traffic signals, there are usually NYPD traffice officers who try to stop the car flow and let the people cross the huge wide street. It's a little bit scary and you feel unsecured when crossing especially because the crossing line is sequed and not straight. The only thing good about this street is that it's adjacent to Atlantic Center & Atlantic Terminal. A mini version mall where you can find a bunch of useful stores/resturants like:
Target, Victoria's secret, Subway, MacDonlad, Cold Stone, Daffy's, Circuit City, Old Navy, Verizon Wireeless, Chuckee Cheese, and few other stores.
Another important thing in the Atlantic Center is the DMV - Brooklyn branch, where you can go and apply for a driving liceness, non-drivign photo ID or a driving permit.

This is a great street for shopping. You can find everything here. From clothes moutlet to middle easteren resturants. The street is conviently located in the heart of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The street is well serviced with the subway R line. It's a safe place to hnag out because it's always crowded and filled with people and shopaholics. In this street you can find the following places:

Century 21, McDonald's, 86 Noodles, Star Bucks, Duane Reade, Bank of America, Washington Mutual, The Avenue Park Bank, Citi Bank, HSBC Bank, Verizon Wireless, T-mobile, Sprint, at&t, Cingular Wireless, Gap, Unite Colors of Benton, New York and Company, Cohen's Fashion Optical, Circuit City, Game Stop, NY sports club, Radio Shack.

I have been into that street a couple of days ago, and I was really shocked to see how beautiful this street is especially after passing by Harlem. The intersection of Riverside Drive and Claremont Avenue starts with a curved upward street that you have to climb to reach the top of the hill where the rest of this beautiful street is. The street, up the hill, basically is composed of several ancinet churches and landmarks that are really beautiful and something worth seeing in the city. The street is adjacent to a long park. I think this is one of the best streets I have ever seen/visited in NYC.

This is a typical mid-town Manhattan street. It's really crowded, the street is narrow, and there is always a traffic jam in this street. No green life in this street of course. Lots of useuless pointless small shops with meaningless facades. Probabally a good street for someone to work in, or to have a small business there or a professional office but defintley not for living. These were the disadvantages of that street. The advantages are, for me, you are close to tons of stores, resturants and banks. To name few of them: Duane Reade, Star Bucks, McDonalds, Subway, Bank of America, and another 3-4 banks that I don't recall.

They say that Bay Ridge, Brooklyn is one of the few affordable safe family(ish) neighbourhood esepcially in the upper street numbers where you get close to the Verrazaon bridge. I guess it's true. I have lived once upon a time in Fort Hamilton Pkwy of Bay Ridge and I found it a relatively nice street, quiet at night, a good place to do your morning walk or for jogging, many senior citizens live in this street which makes the life quiter and safer. For me, the only drawback in this street, as in 90% of New York city, is the the fact that you see more red brick than green areas like, trees, gardens, parks or any sort of that.