Founded in 1980, this is the oldest banya (Russian bathhouse) in Brooklyn. And you can virtually walk around inside it in Street View! See how many oak veniks (used in platza) you can find.
Pardon the abrupt transition, but it turns out that this narrow little block-long street, Lawn Court, was once home to Jacob Tannenbaum, a Jewish Holocaust survivor who, in his 70s (somewhere between 72 and 79, from what I've read), was stripped of his US citizenship (though not deported) after confessing to charges that he served as a kapo, or inmate overseer, at a concentration camp, "brutalizing and physically abusing prisoners outside the presence of German SS personnel."
This two-block-long street is more than a mile from the ocean. But like its neighbor one block to the south, Parkway Court, it is bisected by Ocean Parkway.
