The Vietnam Wall Experience (a.k.a. the Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall) is a traveling three-quarter-scale model of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. It's currently "temporarily retired" at Fort Benning, Georgia, but prior to that it was exhibited all over the country. It came to Staten Island in May 2003, and it seems that a time capsule was left here to commemorate its visit. I'm not sure what the capsule contains, but perhaps, like a capsule that was buried in Tucson after the wall visited in 2005, it's filled with "memorabilia that was left at the wall".

At the dead end of Quincy Avenue, I followed a little trace of a trail a few hundred feet into the woods, and this is where it led me.

This is apparently Staten Island's only Polish restaurant.

That's JFK Airport's air traffic control tower depicted on the sign. JFK is more than 20 miles away by car, so I was surprised to see a restaurant here named after one of its terminals. But it turns out that LOT, Poland's national airline, operates out of JFK's Terminal 1, so I'd imagine that's where the name came from. (O'Hare in Chicago is LOT's only other US destination.)

At PS 176. You can see all the labyrinths we've come across so far here.

Dyker Heights is home to NYC's most famous Christmas lights. While there are individual houses in other parts of the city that rival the craziest ones here, there's no other neighborhood that can match the density of over-the-top displays — house after house after house — that you'll find in this section of Dyker Heights (photos). At peak hours in December, the most illuminated blocks are packed with people gawking at the lights; tourists come from around the world, and there are even $50-per-person guided bus tours. The house above belongs to Lucy and Angelo Spata, Dyker lights pioneers who have been putting on a Chrismastime spectacle for some three decades now.

Our Lady of Lourdes and St. Bernadette, at the Shrine Church of St. Bernadette

This Jewish high school occupies the former Yeshivah of Bensonhurst.

at D&F Sports Center

of the Great Fig Calamity of 2014

Another flag by Scott LoBaido

Here's a closer look.

P.S. 127 Remembers
All Our Heroes, Victims And
Families Of September 11, 2001.

We Dedicate This Garden To Them,
And To All Our Children Who Are
Our Hope For The Future.