Please read Alexey Sklyarenko's annotations on Pale Fire, Ada and other Nabokov works here.
Describing his life with Rita (a girl whom he picked up at a roadside bar between Montreal and New York), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions an amnesic stranger who spoke with an accent that Rita recognized as pure Brooklynese: