Mauerpark
Former Berlin Wall death strip reborn as a park famed for Sunday karaoke and a flea market.
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Mauerpark in Berlin sits on a stretch of the former Berlin Wall's death strip, patrolled by guards and watchtowers until 1989, when neighbors began planting trees on the scar it left behind. The guide follows a bike courier known as Joe Hatchiban, who strapped a karaoke machine to his cargo bike in 2009 and rode into the park's old stone amphitheater one Sunday, stopping strangers on the street to ask them to sing. Best heard standing above the old amphitheater bowl on a Sunday afternoon.
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