Grand Army Plaza is incredible and the point about Prospect Park is well made. Flatbush is named so because the Indians trampled the grass walking out of the farmlands and always crossed at the point of the Brooklyn Bridge (the first structure to coin the term sky scrapper) then the line connects straight to Broadway, the broad path the Indian men took on Man-a-huntin looking for game, it runs perfectly North as well. Central Park was made first by Law & Olmsted, then they refined there magic with Prospect Park and Fort Greene. Right over there near the amazing Arch, Fascia and Caduceus’ of Grand Army (didn’t remember the Ram’s but just got done watching the Ram played by Mickey Roarke in “The Wrestler”) a really cool building on Eastern Parkway, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, which is the largest Bueax Art fascade in the World. The Tiffany clock on Grand Central Station, the sound traveling vaults inside, the zodiac ceiling and gargoyles on the Chrysler building, so many amazing symbols on the Architecture. My appreciation for all the buildings and monuments has grown now that I can understand some of what they all mean.

I’ve been here since 2000, just subsisting at the moment which I hope I can keep up. You and your family are always welcome to hit me up if you want to visit the city again, I’ve room if you’ve got an inflatable mattress.

Some other crazy stuff is how the Bodies of Black Slaves were used to build Wall Street, to defend the Dutch & Venetian Jews from Indian attacks. There’s a Slave cemetery there downtown. Canal Street actually has a Canal running underneath it and the United Nations was built on the grounds of the old slaughter house. Le Corbusier was so angry for not getting full recognition for the UN design that he intentionally fooled the commission into building it with the axis’ opposite, so it’s called “the egg frying building” because the short axis is facing South and the long axis is facing east west, it’s supposed to be opposite or the sun just ruins temperature control in the summer. NYC got started from the profits the Venetian Jews made during the Crusades selling salt, which was the beginning of Capitalism to my knoweledge because interest and checking were invented for that buisness venture. The buiding styles of the Dutch came right over with them. The process of reminds me of the fertilization of an egg because the ship rides perpendiculary towards land and forms a pier then continues inland perpendicular to the shore forming a line. Then fiborous tendrils connect one landing and another, along with offshoots of children’s houses and walla downtown streets are formed. The British just pasted the grid, like the Romans did which was completely based on military fortification concerns and is actually culturally descrutive, the mazey dowtown is much preferable. I could ramble.

Thanks for the tip – link fixed.

Walking down Flatbush, eh? Have you noticed how Prospect Park is shaped like an arrow that points through the Civil War monument arch / over the flame of JFK and right at the Empire State Building.

I lived in Brooklyn for a couple years and recognizing the strange gothic symbolism of Grand Army Plaza was a big part of my awakening. The fasci on the poles, and the strange Ram Headed Axes / serpent cauldrons etc. Talk about hidden out in the open.

Thanks for writing!

Thuth

We had 10 degree weather and a couple days later it was 60.