All the E-W streets in my neighborhood are named after anti-Nazi dissidents whom the Nazis killed. Liselotte Herrmann was a communist student...maybe she would've been a planner? I'm two blocks from two different tram lines, and a long way from any metro stop. But the trams are more reliable. Expensive bio-frisch-markt two blocks away, near the fishmonger, butcher, a slew of bakeries, two drugstores, and even a store that specializes in tea! Can't find the local post office. Lots of restaurants and cafes, a couple bars and a couple nightclubs. I'm three blocks from the big Park Friedrichshain, and two blocks from (a smaller park) Answalderplatz--Berlin is full of parks, really. Like Vienna or Paris, most of the buildings are at a regulated height...22m, I believe. You couldn't sleep higher than that, back in the day,
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