The New York Times dropped into town recently to take the pulse of St. Louis as we say goodbye to our iconic brewery. ^[1]

Times scribe Dirk Johnson does a nice job of capturing the pathos of St. Louis — “In a city that does not do much bragging, the mighty brewery has long been a reason to boast” — and getting reaction from out of the way taverns that wouldn’t dream of stocking Stella Artois, thank you very much.

But, on the geography end, the out-of-town writer might need a little help.

In listing the assets St. Louis can still be proud of now that Anheuser-Busch has been swallowed up by Belgian beer giant InBev,  Johnson cites “Forest Park, an urban nature preserve near downtown.”

Are we talking about the same park? Forest Park, of course, is about as far as west as you can get from downtown without crossing the city limits.

Or, said another way, roughly the same distance apart as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan and Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.

Oh well — at least the Times spelled Stan Musial correctly.