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Food Bloggers Discover That There Is Nowhere to Eat at Broadway Junction

By Savannah Cox | August 25, 2015 12:42pm
 Food bloggers Dallas Penn and Rafi Kam exit the Broadway Junction stop in search of good food, only to realize that there really isn't that much out there.
Food bloggers Dallas Penn and Rafi Kam exit the Broadway Junction stop in search of good food, only to realize that there really isn't that much out there.
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Broadway Junction isn't exactly the place to be on a Friday night — or where you'd want to grab a meal.

Described by food blogger Dallas Penn as "the neighborhood that gentrification forgot about," the East New York train stop is surrounded by restaurants that will make your waist bulge and your arteries clog — but lacks the healthy eateries that many other Brooklyn neighborhoods enjoy.

As part of their quest to eat at every stop of the A train, Penn and fellow food blogger Rafi Kam explored what they call a "food desert" in the middle of Brooklyn, in search of good eats.

The Internets Celebrities duo documented their experience and findings (two Burger Kings, three Popeyes, four McDonalds, six Dunkin Donuts and approximately zero places that offer kale within a mile-radius of the stop, to be exact) in the video below: