For years, I’ve wanted to do a photowalk through Brooklyn’s Chinatown ever since I read Robert Sietsema wax poetic about it here. I did go visit a few years back, but went camera-less and have regretted it ever since. Plus, there aren’t nearly enough great photos of Sunset Park in our Flickr pool! Though I [...]

In the summer of 1978, when Ed Koch was the mayor of New York and John Travolta was dancing through Brooklyn in Saturday Night Fever, 27 people spoke at a public hearing in favor of designating two quiet blocks in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn a historical district. Check out a vintage photoset including pictures [...]

Thanks to a great tip from Tricia Vita over at Amusing the Zillion, I learned of a recently-opened exhibit at the CLAMPART gallery in Chelsea featuring the work of photographer Stephen Wilkes, whose masterpiece of Coney Island is below. This photograph is part of Wilkes’ collection called “Day to Night,” and the pieces are impressive: [...]

Today, I was so excited to see that the official Flickr blog featured a wonderful set on the pigeon keepers of Bushwick by Chris Arnade, who’s no stranger to For the Love of Brooklyn. We’ve been a big fan of Chris’ work for quite some time and I’m so happy to see him get more [...]