BROOKLYN IN COLOR

these photos were taken on a single trip into Brooklyn in January 1999 to retrieve my aunt, who still lives, after 25 years, in the same Flatbush neighborhood I grew up in, for a quiet weekend in the suburbs of New Jersey across the Hudson

The D/F train Church Ave. station in Flatbush.

Fort Hamilton Parkway and 54th Street, a primarily Jewish neighborhood, coming up on Maimonides Hospital. My high school, the all-female Bishop Kearney Catholic (we did indeed have uniforms then), is in the neighboring, predominantly Italian area, on 60th Street.

Fort Hamilton Parkway. In the distance you can barely see the silouhette of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge connecting Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and, for a $7.00 SI-bound toll, Staten Island, one of the other five boroughs of NYC.

Some of the tenements for which Brooklyn is so famous. These are actually kind of small (8 stories sounds more "normal"), and you can see some of the older brownstone style buildings to the left.