44 Fascinating Photos Documented Everyday Life of Brooklyn, NYC in the 1970s _ Nostalgic US Treasures

That’s what Brooklyn, the most populous borough of New York City looked like in the 1970s.

39th street between Fort Hamilton Parkway and 12th ave., 1974
55th street station exit Boro Park, Brooklyn, 1976

 

122 B Quintin St., 1974

 

Bergen Street, Park Slope, 1974

 

Boro Park Brooklyn 55th Street Station Intersection, 1976

 

Boro Park in 1974

 

Boro Park, brooklyn, 1974

 

Boro Park, brooklyn, 1974

 

Boro Park, brooklyn, 1975

 

Brooklyn at night, 1976

 

Brooklyn Bridge in 1979

 

Brooklyn Bridge in 1979

 

Brooklyn Bridge in July 1978

 

Brooklyn Bridge, August 1974

 

Brooklyn mishap, 1974

 

Brooklyn street scene, 1978

 

Brooklyn Zoo, 1976

 

Brooklyn Zoo, 1976

 

Chinese restaurant Chow Mein on Flatbush Street, 1971

 

Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, 1975

 

Coney Island Boardwalk, 1975

 

Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, 1976

 

Coney Island's Stillwell Ave last stop in 1976

 

Couple fishing in Plum Beach, 1973

 

Furman Street in May 1979

 

Graffiti in Brooklyn's Lynch Park, 1974

 

Ladies rest outside Cooks Bath, Coney Island, 1973

 

McKinley Street, 1972

 

Midwood Theater, 1971

 

Neighborhood of Boro Park New Utrecht Avenue & 59 Street, 1978

 

New Utrecht Avenue at the 55th Street Station, 1977

 

Outside Animal Nursery, Coney Island, 1973

 

Plum Beach near Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, May 1973

 

Street around Heral Square, 1976

 

Street in Brooklyn, NYC, 1975

 

Street scene in Coney Island, 1973

 

Street scene outside Nathan's, Coney Island, 1973

 

Verrazano Bridge, 1971

 

Washington Place, Fort Greene, 1974

 

Winter in Coney Island, 1973

 

Woman stands in front of a house at 1068 East 10th Street in Flatbush, 1971
Brooklyn Battey Tunnel, 1975

 

Brooklyn street in 1979

 

Brooklyn, 1979