“BROOKLYN ON THE BRINK: Winds of Change in the Eighties” by Author
and Photographer Mike Stein
Photographs
of 1980s Brooklyn in vintage black & white…
A window into a lost time and place
before massive development changed Brooklyn – this is Mike Stein’s Brooklyn
story. A real estate revolution was around the corner, and a place long thought
to be down on its heels was about to explode into one of the hottest urban
scenes on the planet.
Mike Stein was there with his camera
to record the unfolding drama in communities that had endured for a century.
In this one-of-a-kind trove of images,
which now appears as if discovered in a time capsule, he captures the
people, personalities, politics and development battles that shaped the times.
It is a tale of a special part of New York City, a fabled slice of urban
America on the edge of transformation.
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“As a
photojournalist, Mike Stein was on the front lines in Brooklyn during the
1980s. His images capture the raw change that swept across our city,
transforming neighborhood after neighborhood.”