from the "into the light" dept.

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west...

Does the image above show the actual stairway to heaven... in Brooklyn? That's what the New York Times is asking.

Ever since Google began deploying a roving fleet of cars to capture panoramic, street-level views as a function of the company’s Maps service, a gallery of unusual and occasionally controversial finds have been discovered through the feature.

But nothing quite this mystical.

An image, first highlighted by the blog Buzzfeed, shows a spot radiating with light, blurring the image of a residential, tree-lined street. The strange shimmery patch has prompted some readers to offer their own interpretations of the blazing spectacle.

The rest of the story is HERE.

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