A very helpful reader (my mom) sent this back in September and I'm just now getting around to putting it up. Whoops. Anyway, the artist, Walt Taylor, is from my hometown of Norfolk, Virginia and apparently visits Brooklyn every now and then. After his trip this past summer he published some of his sketches in our paper, The Virginian Pilot. He doesn't mention Ditmas Park specifically, but he says his base of operations is "a Victorian neighborhood just south of Prospect Park" that is "a popular place among movie scouts." Add to that the drawings of John's Bakery on Cortelyou and the beautiful scenery of Albemarle Road and we've got sufficient evidence that this man walked amongst us this past summer. For God's sake, the man was probably at Vox Pop and we didn't even know it. I love his take on Brooklyn at the end: "People are pretty much the same everywhere. They just use more languages here."
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