Social Spaces
Couple walking in downtown Brooklyn
The dance of romance.
Spring with couple variations in Prospect Park
Couples on bench in downtown Brooklyn.
Couple in Prospect Park.
Nighttime romance at East 12th Street in Greenwich Village.
Meeting at a stoop — mediated by a golden retriever with stick.
Park Slope, Brooklyn.
A couple with a bennnnnnnccchhhh to themselves in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
Park Slope street corner meeting initiated by dog.
Parties
Peter Orlovsky talking with people.
“Look what I saw–on 58 St. & 8 Ave–
in a red covered brick room house
whare yellow window shades
hand curles to their grey parted
curtains–behind a dusty window
Lenin sat in a masters chair
but looks with a masters face
beard and all eyes to the street–
And look, look, at his face–
Looking at the bubbley
Housing development across the
street–and in my old age
I will be sitting next him–
for I too will sit & look with my eyes
on the street–“
Peter Orlovsky — excerpt from: “Dream May 18, 1958” in Anne Waldman (Ed.). (1996). The Beat Book: poems & fiction from the beat generation. Boston: Shambhala. (p. 116)
Musicians in Prospect Park
Old musician talking with woman and her dog at subway entrance in Park Slope
Family playing in Prospect Park.
Board game in Prospect Park.
Neighborhood stoop gathering and passers-by.
1st & 3rd floor socializing.
Lar’s Deli Meeting & Horsing Around
C
Hanging out.
Street-sdie church consult.
Greenwich Village dog stoop social.
Hanging out in front of restaurant at 318 5th Avenue, Brooklyn.
Street corner converation, 5th Avenue, Brooklyn. I don’t think the guy looking at me was particularly happy about my taking photos. I wonder why?
Another intense conversation, with an eavesdropping boy.
Meat Market intense conversation.
Two guys hamming it up outside Cho’s Market.
Probably a regular meeting, Park Slope, Brooklyn.
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