Gates Avenue

Street through Bedford–Stuyvesant and Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, USA. The pin is the Gates Avenue subway station.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
Another Brooklyn	Jacqueline Woodson	setting	The shoe-repair booth where the old man watches the girls.

Another Brooklyn — Jacqueline Woodson (2016)

Source: Another Brooklyn · Readwise highlight

So we warned each other about the shoe repair on Gates Avenue, how the old man who reminded us of Geppetto made you wait on the hard wooden seat in the little booth so he could steal glances at your legs and bare feet.

• Role: setting
• In the book: The girls warn each other about the shoe repairman on Gates Avenue who stares at their legs and offers a quarter to see their underwear: one of the places where they learn they are being watched.
• Why it matters: Shows the everyday predation the girls learn to navigate.