A Portrait of Brooklyn Before it Was Gentrified - Feature Shoot

John and Michael, 16th Street, 1980 John’s Caddy, 6th Avenue, 1975 Back in the 1950s and ‘60s, a movement was afoot. The media called it “white flight” and sang it…

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Brooklyn native Larry Racioppo headed west for two years before returning to his hometown in December 1970. He took a job at the phone company and a class at SVA, which inspired him to start photographing the world in which he lived. Then little by little, everything began to change.