In addition to the Brownsville and East New York neighborhoods featured in An Era Past N. Jay Jaffee photographed the people and places throughout Brooklyn. From Coney Island to Brooklyn Heights to downtown Brooklyn, his images captured the unique vitality, diversity, and history of the borough that every generation re-discovers. To find out more, read the essays “An Era Past” and “Reflections: My Early Photographs” in Writing.


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