7th Avenue

Flashback Friday: 7th Avenue Street Fair

Shannon Geis

Jul 24, 2015 — 1 min read

Photo by a href=http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/record=b11519254 target="_blank">Anders Goldfarb — Photo by Anders Goldfarb

We love looking back at the neighborhood in years past. Here is a photo of 7th Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Streets around 1978 during what appears to be a street fair. Check out all of the old shop signs!

The image is part of the Brooklyn Collection at the Brooklyn Public Library and you can find more historic images like this one there or through Brooklyn Visual Heritage.

Do you have any interesting old photos of Park Slope? Share them with us at editor@bklyner.com!

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