I saw my first of the year yesterday, but this guy is much more photogenic.
Yes, there are wild parrots in Brooklyn! They're monk parakeets, a.k.a. Quaker parrots, and they've established several strongholds throughout the region, one of which is here at the park known, for reasons of political expediency, as Quaker Parrot Park at the Dust Bowl, which sounds an awful lot like Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
It's The Venetian, a.k.a. The Monster on Avenue P, and it's quite out of touch with its surroundings.
This former Army facility, since redeveloped for commercial and light industrial use, was supposedly the nation's largest military supply base during World War II. It was the point of embarkation for more than three million troops during the war, as well as for a certain young soldier deployed to Germany in 1958 (photos).
