What a Math Class!

Last night Plotnik learned about vodka infused with horseradish, at a cool Ukrainian bar on 2nd St. and 2nd Ave on the Lower East Side before the four adults headed to the Village to eat the best lobster rolls ever at Pearl Oyster Bar. Can it really be that lobster in Manhattan can taste this good? It can. The restaurant is packed despite being pricey and it's worth every single sauce-slurping penny.

Plotnik doesn't drink very much, so he's a very cheap date. He's always surprised that one shot of vodka can make everything around him seem so danged humorous, even FiveHead using her camera phone.



Earlier in the day, Plot and Duck went to the Brooklyn Historical Museum and the Brooklyn Transit Museum after that. In between was a short stop at the New Apollo Greek Diner for an East Coast gyro. It is not 100% accurate that nothing is being accomplished on this trip except eating.

This is the research library at the Historical Society.



The Transit Museum is situated in an old Brooklyn subway station, so you enter down a subway stairway.



Once you're there you dutifully walk through the exhibits of all the immigrants who built the subways, then you descend another stair to the good part -- old NYC subway cars lined up on the tracks so you can walk through the generations by cruising through the cars.



But this morning was the prize -- going with The Great PD to film a brilliant young teacher doing a math challenge program at a kindergarten on the Brownsville/Bushwick border. The kids are roughly half African American and half Ecuadorian and they are sharp as tacks. Plotnik has always felt that it's the teacher who counts the most, not the type of school or amount of kids or the money or lack of money in the system. Not that those aren't important and sometimes crucial, but if the teacher doesn't motivate the kids it won't matter how much money is spent on the computers. This lady was an inspiration.