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Bedford Avenue בעדפארד עוועניו
Bedford Avenue is Brooklyn's longest street, running through Chasidic Williamsburg, Crown Heights, Flatbush and Midwood.
Bedford Avenue is Brooklyn's longest street at 10.2 miles and 132 blocks, from Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint to Emmons Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, passing through Williamsburg, Bedford–Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Midwood and more. Bedford Road was an important 18th-century route between Flatbush and Newtown Creek. In Williamsburg it was once called Fourth Street.
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