Brooklyn
Two people stand atop the tower of a former church (now apartment building) in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, as fireworks fill the sky on the fourth of July. The show was put on by the Gotti family on Court Street.
Coney Island on the 4th of July 1993 is a sea of people covering the entire beach as far as you can see in Brooklyn, NY.
Flower man sells plants from pony and wagon on Clinton Street in Cooble Hill in 1990.
Flowering trees form a canopy over Columbia Street in Brooklyn during the spring of 2004.
Williamsburgh Bank Building over new condos in the Barclays Center area of Brooklyn in an area that became gentrified with the building of the new arena.
College Place carriage houses are hidden off of Love Lane in Brooklyn Heights, echoing back to a different lifestyle of horses and carriages.
Montague Street and Clinton Street signs in Brooklyn Heights Historic District
The street sign for Love Lane in Brooklyn is high up on a corner building because of how often the sign was stolen.
The fruit streets of Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York City, have a legend. The story goes, as recorded by the “WPA Guide to New York,” that in the decade prior to the Civil War, a local resident, whose name is given as Miss Middagh, resented her aristocratic neighbors, tore down the street signs bearing the names of the offending families, and hastily installed signs bearing the names of her favorite fruits and trees: Pineapple, Orange, Cranberry and Willow. She won and the names stayed.
Two old wooden garage doors are titled NO PARKIN' and 24 HRS with a small climb out door in Brooklyn, New York
Brownstones line Clinton Street as far as the eye can see in Cobble Hill Brooklyn
Classic New York brownstones line Clinton Street between Kane and Degraw with Stoops, Doorways, Windows and Lines in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
Old Domino Sugar plant in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, on the waterfront in 2009. The over 140-year-old Domino Sugar Refinery, which closed in 2004 and became a city landmark in 2007, is now an 11-acre megaproject, developed by Two Trees, including Domino Park, four new buildings, and a total renovation of the interiors.
Verandah Place Mews with flowering tree in Cobble Hill Park, Brooklyn. More a mews for the horse drawn carriages of Brooklyn’s past than a proper street, Verandah Place (also sometimes spelled Veranda Place) is a block and a half long and just 20 feet wide, including the narrow sidewalk along its south side. It was created as a service alley as the area urbanized and the street grid was laid out in the years prior to the Civil War.
Brooklyn Bridge and Fulton Ferry during first snowstorm of 2008 has an eerie, empty feel. Since the building of Brooklyn Bridge Park, the area is never uncrowded.
Brooklyn Bridge from Brooklyn going to Manhattan with no World Trade Center or Freedom Tower and no building in DUMBO on top of the bridge in 2007.
Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary on May 23, 2008 with New York City
The Manhattan Bridge frames Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge at sunset 2/29/08 from the new Brooklyn Bridge Park in the decade of no skyscraper in Lower Manhattan
Brooklyn Bridge 100th Anniversary on June 26, 1990 featured a fireworks waterfall as crowds watch from Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in DUMBO.
Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary on June 26, 2008 with New York City and DUMBO in the foreground
