"Berlin Wall, 53rd St., Manhattan," December 2008

Berlin Wall, 53rd St.

When it stood until 1990, the Berlin Wall stood to disconnect one side of the city from the other. And now, the wall itself has been disconnected and scattered about the world. I first saw a section -- just one panel, or maybe two -- at the local Monmouth Mall in Eatontown, N.J., and spent a couple of bucks on a small chunk of it. It's in a tiny Ziploc bag somewhere, probably a box either in my parents' house or somewhere in ours.