From January of 1978 to April of 1979, photographer Dinanda Nooney photographed around 200 homes, coming out with nearly 2000 photos of Brooklynites in their natural habitats.
These photographs – the people, the architecture, the decor, the crazy ’70s outfits – are hands-down-amazing, and hammer home the point that there have been cool people living in Brooklyn long before you. From Bushwick to Bed-Stuy to Park Slope to Boerum Hill, here we selected 30 of the photographs she took:
(Images via New York Public Library Digital Archives)
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