New York
Apartment house across from Fort Geen Park in Brooklyn
Boys in Brooklyn
Boy Scout leader recruiting among Latino youths in the Bed Stuy district
Children at Riis Park, a public beach in Brooklyn
Latin youth at Lynch Park, Brooklyn
Boy at bat in a softball game in Highland Park, Brooklyn
Puerto Rican boy playing ball in Highland Park, Brooklyn
Playing softball in Highland Park, Brooklyn
Three girls in Brooklyn
Three girls on Bond Street in Brooklyn
Three boys and 'A train' graffiti in Brooklyn's Lynch Park
Two Latino girls pose in front of graffiti in Lynch Park, Brooklyn
Kosciusko public swimming pool in the heart of Bed-Stuy
Youngsters on the July 4th holiday at the Kosciusko swimming pool in Bed-Stuy
Manhattan Bridge tower in Brooklyn framed through nearby buildings
All images: Danny Lyon/ NARA
Thank you to Fabio Lugaro
Just awesome photos man. Life just flies by doesn’t it…?
Here is the bottom photo in present day from Google Maps
Compare these photos with ones of children playing in the street at the turn of the century. While still a “poverty stricken area”, these children appear better nourished, educated and dressed than children of that earlier era. Smiles abound as the children play at special areas set aside for them.
Also, compare the clothing! Most of the boys here are half naked, sporting in park and pool. The females are appropriately attired for the weather in the more recent pix!
Is it necessary to label the subjects as “Latin” or “Puerto Rican”? I feel that this kind of labelling is reductive and unnecessary and supports the process of “othering”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other#Othering_and_Imperialism
Hi Mary – those were the original labels from 1974
Not *my* section of Brooklyn, which never went through the trashification this area seems to have. Oh, that’s “Fort Greene”, not Fort Geen. And “Bed-Stuy” is actually Bedford-Stuyvesant.
The bottom photo is of a neighborhood now called DUMBO (District Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass) where apartments sell for at least a million dollars now…
Thanks, I was just about to correct the same thing. Another Brooklyner here – great to see these photos, and yep, bottom photo is definitely in DUMBO and in fact near Water Street if I am not mistaken. And to below… why all the hatin’ on them hipsters, man? I’m in Bushwick and those kids made this place SAFER, yo?
beautiful photos. Nice to see the REAL Brooklyn before it was gentrified and taken over by hipster transplants from the midwest. shudder.
According to a recent article in Chicago Magazine, the third picture was taken in the Appalachian migrant ghetto of Chicago:
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/January-2012/Chicagos-Hillbilly-Problem-During-the-Great-Migration/
another view of the last photograph:
http://blog.nastygal.com/2012/03/02/almost-vintage-inspiration-wild-at-heart/wildatheart_bw06/
RC – yes! Even though I was sitting alone when first viewing these photographs, when I saw that shot I said out loud, “Wow, that looks like Chicago, not Brooklyn!” I’d know those ubiquitous gray back porches anywhere.