During the 1970s a large influx of immigrants from Russia, China, and Puerto Rico resided in Brooklyn. Previously Brooklyn’s economy heavily relied upon manufacturing, but in the 1970s it was shifting to a service-based economy. The blackout of 1977 led to widespread rioting, looting, and arson in Brooklyn. Several blocks of the main Broadway shopping district in Bushwick were torched, with devastating effects.
Previously, we’ve shared an interesting list of vintage photos of Brooklyn from the 1970s, and today we are sharing some more photos that show the street life of Brooklyn from the 1970s. Vote your favorites and don’t forget to share.
#1 Brooklyn Bridge in 1979
#2 Brooklyn Bridge, August 1974
#3 People on a crowded Brooklyn sidewalk, 1977.
#4 Brooklyn’s Coney Island amusement park, 1973.
#5 Fourchildren in their Sunday best, Brooklyn, 1973.
#6 39th street between Fort Hamilton Parkway and 12th ave., 1974
#7 Bergen Street, Park Slope, 1974
#8 Three boys playing from behind a chain link fence in Brooklyn’s Lynch Park, graffiti “A Train” in the background, 1974.
#9 Vanderbilt Avenue in New York City, June, 1974.
#10 Blackout Power Failure, people walk across from Brooklyn Bridge, 1977.
#11 Abandoned apartment buildings across a vancant lot full of debris in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, 1971.
#12 The quiet street in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights where a gunman pumped five bullets into Thomas Eboli aka Tommy Ryan, head, 1972.
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who the hell wrote these captions lmao
#13 Coney Island Boardwalk, 1975
#14 Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, 1976
#15 Coney Island’s Stillwell Ave last stop in 1976
#16 McKinley Street, 1972
#17 Washington Place, Fort Greene, 1974
#18 Two teenage girls posing in front of a wall of graffiti in Lynch Park, Brooklyn, 1974.
#19 Surf Avenue in Brooklyn’s Coney Island neighborhood, 1973.
#20 A street with parked cars, passing under a subway traffic bridge, Brooklyn, 1973.
#21 122 B Quintin St., 1974
#22 Boro Park in 1974
#23 Brooklyn Zoo, 1976
#24 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, 1975
#25 Ladies rest outside Cooks Bath, Coney Island, 1973
#26 Street scene in Coney Island, 1973
#27 Winter in Coney Island, 1973
#28 Woman and child walking in Lynch Park in Brooklyn, 1974.
#29 Bicyclist on Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, 1974.
#30 Children playing on the shore at Reis Park, a public beach in Brooklyn, New York City, 1974.
#31 Six hearses carrying Attica dead move slowly in proces sion at Fulton St. and Grand Ave., Brooklyn, 1971.
#32 In Brooklyn, a black newspaper seller near his stall under a subway staircase, 1973.
#33 A street overhung by bridges, on a sidewalk, near the front of a cafe, Brooklyn, 1973.
#34 55th street station exit Boro Park, Brooklyn, 1976
#35 Boro Park Brooklyn 55th Street Station Intersection, 1976
#36 Boro Park, brooklyn, 1974
#37 Boro Park, brooklyn, 1974
#38 Boro Park, brooklyn, 1975
#39 Brooklyn Bridge in 1979
#40 Brooklyn Bridge in July 1978
#41 Brooklyn mishap, 1974
#42 Brooklyn street scene, 1978
#43 Brooklyn Zoo, 1976
#44 Furman Street in May 1979
#45 Midwood Theater, 1971
#46 Neighborhood of Boro Park New Utrecht Avenue & 59 Street, 1978
#47 New Utrecht Avenue at the 55th Street Station, 1977
#48 Outside Animal Nursery, Coney Island, 1973
#49 Street scene outside Nathan’s, Coney Island, 1973
#50 Verrazano Bridge, 1971
#51 Woman stands in front of a house at 1068 East 10th Street in Flatbush, 1971
#52 Brooklyn street in 1979
#53 Brooklyn, 1979
#54 Chinese restaurant Chow Mein on Flatbush Street, 1971
#55 Couple fishing in Plum Beach, 1973
#56 Plum Beach near Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, May 1973
#57 Street around Heral Square, 1976
#58 Brooklyn Battey Tunnel, 1975
#59 Street in Brooklyn, NYC, 1975
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Nah chill…. there’s a Ford Focus across the street. Lmao!
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The only thing there that’s 1975 is the Cadillac.
