On my last visit out to Shea before the last portion of the stadium came down, I was shocked to see that a squirrel was living inside the construction area in between Citi Field and Shea Stadium.

He clamored down from one tree, scurried through the construction site and ran up another, and he’s apparently quite alright with all of the construction going on around him.

It was an awesome scene to watch.

At the age of six this sight of five enormous construction vehicles would have turned me into a hoopla of excitement.

The same could be said of my nephews.  If they saw these machines in person they would jump up and down and scream with the joys of excitement.

At times I still think it is cool to see the things that some of these machines can pick up and do, but I no longer jump up and down to the point of causing a scene, and have no idea why little boys get all worked up over these things.

Aside from the old piece of Americana in the form of an old diner left down on the old piers of the Brooklyn waterfront, there is this old anchor…

And it looks HUGE!

It also looks as though it is dancing with his shadow, very nice!

There are lots of tall buildings in NYC, which means that there are lots of water tanks on top all of those tall buildings, but this one building has the best water tower in Brooklyn that disguises the water tank.

This is the big post office down by the courthouses.

And it’s there behind that big arched opening that the water tank is hidden.

It certainly is a studly and stealthy place to keep a water tank.

I’ve seen the tower hundreds of times, and only recently did I notice the water tank hiding in there.

Seeing it barely sticking out over the opening makes it appear in my head as if it is really a man wearing an iron mask who is locked away from unknown reasons.

For months I’ve walked by a giant cement or stone looking structure that sits in the middle of the Cadman Plaza.  Since it is surrounded by a local park it always stuck out and I’ve wondered what that structure is.

I finally walked over to it and found out that it is the Brooklyn War Memorial, and it’s a relic of Robert Moses.

After World War II Moses wanted each borough to have one main war memorial, rather than loads of smaller memorials – which is what happened post World War I – and as it turns out, Brooklyn was the only borough to have built such a memorial.

The building itself operates as a Parks Department office, with the memorial having a giant Roman warrior on one corner…

And a giant Roman widow and fatherless child on another corner…

With this inscription on the side in between both giants…

“This memorial is dedicated
To the heroic men and women of the borough of Brooklyn
Who fought for Liberty in the second World War 1941-1945
And especially to those who suffered and died
May their sacrifice inspire future generations
And lead to universal peace”

And that’s about it…although I must say, I had thought and still wouldn’t be surprised to learn that this memorial was really built to hide the entrance to a giant underground bunker system – after all, it was built post WWII and it sits in the middle of a rather large urban park.