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    Walking around the Grand Army Plaza area in Brooklyn early in the morning gives off a different experience and feeling compared to what it would feel like if I showed up there maybe even an hour later.
   Showing up around 9AM on a Saturday morning serves a calm and somewhat quiet lull around the area. Though I can't physically see them, I know there's different groups of people spread around everywhere. On the outer circle of the concentric circle pathways that make up the streets, I can hear the impeding thuds of sneakers against the stone walkways as they're running up behind me being part of the Half Marathon going on. I can hear a couple passing right by me cheering each other on to keep up their paces together and the soft laughs coming from both of them as they keep going on up the path.
   Walking further up to where the all the statues are, I hear the rush of water coming from the Bailey fountain as the water hits the falling and rustling leaves from the trees as they both hit the ground, making a unique sound. I hear a dad calling for his toddler in an amused tone for him to wait up for him near the John F. Kennedy monument. Walking by them are two girls sipping on their Starbucks drinks rather loudly and talking about how they're annoyed at all the chirping of the birds early in the morning.
  Towards the center of the outer circle paths while dogs are being walked by their owners and hearing the clangs from their leashes, there's people padding up the marble stairs of the library to join the group of around fifty people crowded at the top of the steps as they're sifting through books for the book sale going on and there's sounds of the wooden carts being shifted, the sound of pages being flipped, and coins being dropped while all the conversations of book lovers melts into one tone that mixes with everyone's sounds across the street by the Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch where a farmer's market sale is going on and someone playing a Jamaican steel drum excitedly and surprisingly right in front of the arch. The most fascinating thing about all of this is that no matter how many different sounds were surrounding me while walking, it still doesn't feel as noisy as you would think it is which really gives it the feel of an early morning walk with different sorts of background sounds while walking in relatively quiet and park filled neighborhood far area from sounds of public transportation and traffic that gives way to be able to hear more distinct sounds than normal.