Photo Of The Week: Children Outside Of Prospect Park

Check out this great 1975 photo of children playing at a water fountain by the Flatbush Avenue entrance to Prospect Park. Note the litter and the graffiti. New York City was weathering a massive financial crisis at the time which led to the slashing of public services.

The photographer, Lucille Fornasieri Gold, was born in Bay Ridge in 1930.

According to a blog post by the Brooklyn Historical Society:

Gold’s father, a professor of architectural studies, first exposed her to photography as a child. She started photographing with a Leica camera in 1968, when her children were at school. She would develop and print her photographs in the kitchen darkroom of her Park Slope apartment. Around 2008, she self-published three collections of her photography: “Old City,” “Young City,” and “Brooklyn Doggie.”

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