According to Google Maps, "drug section Brooklyn" has an exact location, and it's the Bensonhurst corner of West 8th Street and Bay Parkway. This quirk of the omniscient internet was pointed out, like many before it, in a thread on the social news website Reddit. Bensonhurst locals responding to the thread were not happy about the delineation. "That's my neighborhood! And I have no idea why. Sorry to be a disappointment," wrote one commenter. Another user offered that the locale probably was set by someone who was really bored re-christened the corner using Google Mapmaker. [VV]
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