Walkin' In Brooklyn

My interview with Rob Flaks probably paved the way for Hannah Kliger of CBS 2 (NYC) contacting me. I forget how she phrased it, but she was interested in any unusual monuments or sights that I've come across in my travels. For once, I'm happy I've been blogging and taking pictures. I've seen some great sites/sights, but many are common knowledge and visited by thousands. I thought about war memorials I've passed, mostly from the First World War, and then I remembered the monument erected by the Lithuanians of Greater New York, with stuck out when I first passed it a couple of years ago because Lithuanians is not one of the major ethnic groups you think of when you think of migrations to Brooklyn or to New York City as a whole. I mentioned it, and she liked the idea (and later said that her Russian background didn't play a part in it, but I might've steered her that way anyway). So we picked a date for a walk that worked into her schedule. I even agree...

Working my way east and navigating the streets around the park itself. Okay, I goofed. I planned on staying between Fillmore and Kings Highway, but I parked in the wrong place without thinking, so I walked Ave U to Kings Highway, with some detours so I wouldn't miss one street that I'd have to come back to later. There aren't a lot of pictures because I didn't travel a lot of different streets. I guess I still traveled four different East streets, but two of them were only for a single block. I started on E33 Street by Ave U. There's a picture of some of the houses closer to the park, which look different from the ones closer to Kings Highway. Walking down E 34 Street, I got as far as Avenue S before I decided to loop around and get that one block of E 32 Street that I was missing. Rather than walk down E 34 Street again (and possibly worry the residents that some strange guy was casing the neighborhood, taking pictures), I swung ...