Head 25 blocks south, down Clinton Street, past the elegant brownstones of Cobble Hill, and then turn east, walking under a massive subway station and over a drawbridge spanning the heavily polluted Gowanus Canal, and you're within shouting distance of Bernie Sanders's headquarters in the city. To get into Sanders's headquarters -- a converted warehouse that bustles with energy from the start -- you ... walk in. When we visited last Monday, the security consisted of two volunteers, one of whom made sure we were being helped and the other doing the same, having not heard that we were already asked.

Walk into Clinton's headquarters and you're met with a giant representation of the current delegate math. Walk into Sanders's and you're presented with a set of doors covered with stickers and signs.

The delegate counter isn't the only bit of decoration in Clinton's headquarters. It is, however, very much the first thing you see.

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We'll note that Sanders's headquarters is only temporary, while Clinton's has been her national headquarters all along. Different functions. But it's hard not to see symbolism in the differences.

Even the literal distance between the two is interesting. The street at the back of Clinton's headquarters is Clinton Street, which originates downtown and then drops straight down through a number of brownstone homes and past one quiet park where tulips were just coming into bloom. A few blocks in from New York Harbor, the walk south is a walk through a neighborhood that most people couldn't afford.

But as you keep going, that changes. Somewhere around the intersection of President and Clinton streets (yes, really), the walk becomes more working class. By the time you make the turn to the east where Clinton Street slips under the Gowanus Expressway, you're in an obviously working-class area. Looming over the Gowanus Canal is a giant bridge/train complex where you can catch the F train into Manhattan or deeper into Brooklyn. And a few blocks east of that is Sanders's space, a warehouse on a side street surrounded by auto body shops and across the street from more affordable-looking houses.