May 312023
 

       Ambassador H.E. 

Alexander Galper

A.Galper is a Russian-language writer, who recently had a seria of readings in Kiev, Warsaw, Vilnius and Riga (May 2023) and is going to have the same in 2024

 

Brooklyn
Kings County, New York
Website www.brooklyn-usa.org
Clockwise from top left: Brooklyn Bridge; Brooklyn brownstones; Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch; Brooklyn Borough Hall; and Coney Island

Clockwise from top left: Brooklyn Bridge; Brooklyn brownstones; Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch; Brooklyn Borough Hall; and Coney Island
Official seal of BrooklynSeal
Motto(s):

Eendraght Maeckt Maght
(“Unity makes strength”)
Map

 • Borough President Antonio Reynoso (D)
— (Borough of Brooklyn)
 • District Attorney Eric Gonzalez (D)
— (Kings County)
Area

 • Total 97 sq mi (250 km2)
 • Land 70.82 sq mi (183.4 km2)
 • Water 26 sq mi (67 km2)
Highest elevation

220 ft (67 m)
Population

 (2020)
 • Total 2,736,074[1]
 • Density 38,634/sq mi (14,917/km2)
 • Demonym

Brooklynite[3]
ZIP Code prefix
112

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, the most populous county in the State of New York, it is also New York City’s most populous borough,[6] with 2,736,074 residents in 2020.[1] If Brooklyn were an independent city, it would be the third most-populous in the U.S. after the rest of New York City and Los Angeles, and ahead of Chicago.

Named after the Dutch town of Breukelen (to the northwest of Utrecht,), Brooklyn is located on the westernmost edge of Long Island and shares a border with the borough of Queens. It has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan, across the East River, and is connected to Staten Island by way of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.

Brooklyn was founded by the Dutch in the 17th century and grew into a busy port city by the 19th century. On January 1, 1898, after a long political campaign and public relations battle during the 1890s,  Brooklyn was consolidated in and annexed (along with other areas) to form the current five borough structure of New York City.  Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves. Having a larger Jewish population than Jerusalem, the borough has been described as “the most Jewish spot on Earth”, with Jews forming around a quarter of its population.[7][8]

Oct 102022
 

Ambassador Her Excellency J.C.Todd

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The Rivers

The Delaware River – a major river on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It drains an area of 13,539 square miles (35,070 km2) in four U.S. states: Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.

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By Seth B. Lyon (1961-2010), photographer – uploaded by User:JGHowes, with permission of the copyright holder and photographer, Seth B. Lyon, who has licensed it under GFDL, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6672808

 

The Sasquehanna River (/ˌsʌskwəˈhænə/; Lenape: Siskëwahane[7]) is a major river located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, overlapping between the lower Northeast and the Upland South. At 444 miles (715 km) long, it is the longest river on the East Coast of the United States.[8]

 By Nicholas A. Tonelli from Northeast Pennsylvania, USA – https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicholas_t/3594274494/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6951488

 

 

Ambassador’s Poetry:

Jun 282015
 

Ambassador H.E. Miguel

Honorary Consul – Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas LlosaMaro Vargas llosa, in the end of his novel “La ciudad y los perros” (1963/1966) described one of the districts of Lima, Miraflores, which have some resemblance to Uzhupis in the process of gentrification.

Another interesting novella, taking place in Lima, is “The Bridge of St.Louis Rey” of Thornton Wilder. There, a catastrophic feeling and the bridge itself also reminds one of Uzhupis with its’ mythology of 9 bridges and the poetics of Ruins and unexpexted death (against which St.Christopher, patron of Vilnius, protects us) – T.Cz.

 

Nov 022014
 

Ambassador – H.E. Lamont Steptoe

3 P means Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

“The place where I was raised – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, – the place where I now live – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, -and finally-Camden, New Jersey where the Saint Walt Whitman is buried and where my press Whirlwind Press was founded.” – tells His Excellency

Nov 022014
 

Ambassador H.E. Tomas Venclova

inaugurated in 1999.

Ambasadoriaus eilės, skirtos Užupiui

 

Užupis

Liepų šurmuly, prieš akmens krantinę,
ties skubria srove, panašia į Tibrą,
su jaunais barzdočiais gurkšnoju „Gilbey’s“.
Sutema, stiklų skambesys ir dūmai.
Nepažįstu jų. Pažinau jų tėvus.

Ką gi, kartos keičiasi. Diktofonas
šlama ir užsikerta. Pašnekovams
rūpi lygiai tas, kas ir man kadaise:
ar kančia ir gailestis turi prasmę
ir ar menas tvers, jei nebus taisyklių.

Aš buvau kaip jie, kol patyriau keistą,
už kitas tikrai ne geresnę lemti,
ir žinau, jog blogis nežūva niekad,
bet aklybę galima prasklaidyti,
ir eilės vertos daugiau nei sapnas.

Vasarą dažnai nubundu prieš aušrą
ir be baimės juntu, kad artėja laikas,
kai naujoms gentims pasiliks žodynas,
debesis, griuvėsiai, druska ir duona,
o man jau nieko, išskyrus laisvę.

Venclova, Tomas. Sankirta: Eilėraščiai. – Vilnius: LRS leidykla, 2005.