‘Back in the Days’, Brooklyn, 1980s, by Jamel Shabazz

11 comments to ‘Back in the Days’, Brooklyn, 1980s, by Jamel Shabazz

• Iain

  December 19, 2011 at 1:05 pm · Reply

  Brilliant pictures. I love the fashion of the time, in particular the trainers (sneakers, very cool !

• Jamie

  December 19, 2011 at 3:20 pm · Reply

  This will always be how I picture Brooklyn in my mind. Not the gentrified mecca for hipsters and trustifarians it is today.

• Jihad Punk

  December 19, 2011 at 3:49 pm · Reply

  oh my god. I’m in love. More photos please!!!

  @Jamie: I’m not from NYC or Brooklyn, but I agree with you. I will always imagine NYC as from 1970s and 80s movies before the gentrification take-over by hipster douche-bags from the Midwest.

• adam

  December 19, 2011 at 10:02 pm · Reply

  so little of brooklyn is what you consider “gentrified” a lot of the old families are still here or were fortunate enough to sell their houses and move to staten island

• Mike F

  December 20, 2011 at 12:09 am · Reply

  The music devices have definitely changed since then, but the mens footwear has remained the same !

• Joanne Powers

  December 20, 2011 at 12:39 am · Reply

  Wow! the suitcase-sized boomboxes and huge cameras and short shorts, knee high white socks. How quickly everything (fashionable and techie) changes. It wasn’t really THAT long ago…or was it? Great photos.

• Cro

  December 21, 2011 at 1:40 pm · Reply

  Those douche bags that “gentrified” Brooklyn weren’t from the Midwest J.Punk. They’re from down the block. Trust me, if us Midwesterner’s had moved in, it wouldn’t still be such a suck-hole.

• Elroy

  December 23, 2011 at 6:59 am · Reply

  Some white, middle class, twenty somethings with sweaty hair still dress like that in Williamsburg. But they’re trying to be ironic, I think.

• gormster

  March 7, 2012 at 11:34 am · Reply

  BRING
  BACK
  SHORT
  SHORTS

• Alex

  March 15, 2012 at 2:33 pm · Reply

  Last picture is well creepy. Gay dads?

• Juan Luis

  March 18, 2012 at 3:56 pm · Reply

  WOW dam…!! I remember some of these places (from the looks of the backgrounds), a most of them have changed or are gone now. I was born in Crown Heights and raised in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Anyone from Bushwick or I.S. 291 (Class of 1989)?