Fare thee well to the legendary Lenny’s Pizza on 86th Street, which after 70 years in business is closing up shop for good tomorrow at 10pm. A sad loss for Brooklyn, but at least they’re closing by their own choice (retirement), and not due to landlord greed or lack of business.

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A beautiful photo of a group of kids in the playground at Columbia Heights and Middagh Street in 1969. The park was named the Harry Chapin Playground in 1987 to honor the singer who grew up in Brooklyn Heights. Photograph by Mitchell Funk.

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Street aphorism, 2018.
Photograph by Lee Greenfeld.

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“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” -John Steinbeck

Photo of Debbie Harry on the beach in The People’s Playground by Chris Stein, 1978.

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Members of The Jokers hanging out inside Helen’s Candy Store in Coney Island. Photograph by Bruce Davidson from his classic 1959 Brooklyn Gang series.
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Early 1970s newspaper ad for occult bookstore The Warlock Shop in Brooklyn Heights (which interestingly was one block from H. P. Lovecraft’s old home on Clinton Street). In 1976 the Warlock’s owner, the infamous Herman Slater, opened his second store, the Magickal Child, in the city.
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A brilliant 1950 capture by one of my favorite photographers, Coney Island’s own Harold Feinstein.

Feinstein began his photographic journey at 15 years old, and by the age of 17 became the youngest member of the historic Photo League (at 19 he had work purchased for the permanent collection of the MOMA). Beyond photography he designed classic album covers for Blue Note and helped launch the Evergreen Review with Jean-Paul Sartre and Samuel Beckett.
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View of the corner of Myrtle and Nostrand avenues from the old Nostrand Avenue elevated BMT station in 1969, the year it closed. Photograph by Patrick Cullinan.

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“New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen.” -artist/activist Ai Weiwei, photographed in 1983 while he was living in Brooklyn and attending the Art Students Leaguge. Photographer unknown.

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The corner of 23rd Avenue and 86th Street in Bensonhurst right by the El in 1972. Photograph by Thomas Roma.
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Brownsville’s Abe "Kid Twist" Reles (center), with two of his Murder Inc. accomplices in a 1938 mugshot.

The photo was taken 3 years before Reles — a hitman whose weapon of choice was an ice pick — “fell” from a window in the Half Moon hotel in Coney Island. Reles was in police custody after becoming a state witness; he had already testified against members of Murder Inc., and on his day of his death was set to testify against Albert Anastasia from the Gambino family.
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“Pigeon Cloud”

Photograph by Builder Levy, 1987.

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A young Jean-Michel Basquiat playing with sisters Lisane and Jeanine in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, circa 1970. Screen capture from a home video included in the Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure exhibition.

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Such a waste: “New York City Police Commissioner William P. O'Brien smashes illegal pinball machines in a warehouse in Greenpoint.” Photograph from the NY Daily News, 1945.

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Coney Island bound, 1977.
Photograph by the great Harold Feinstein.

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The legendary Ruby Oshinsky (better known as Ruby The Knish Man) outside Tilden High School in Canarsie, 1967. Photographer unknown.

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The abandoned RKO Bushwick Theatre on Broadway in 1974. The theater closed in 1969, was home to a church for a few years and then sat abandoned for ages. It’s now the site of the Brooklyn High School For Law And Technology. Photograph by Danny Lyon.

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Park Slope kids, 1971.
Photograph by Chris Stein from #blondie
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Legendary author/historian/activist W.E.B. Du Bois with his wife Shirley Graham Du Bois at their home on Grace Court in Brooklyn Heights. The Du Bois bought the house from Arthur Miller who lived there while he finished writing Death Of A Salesmen. Photograph by David Attie, 1958.
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Dead end contemplation in Coney Island, circa 1978. Photograph by Irving I. Herzberg
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