Sunset Park Stills: What I saw in Sunset Park: Puerto Rican Walker

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

What I saw in Sunset Park: Puerto Rican Walker

Puerto Rican Walker, originally uploaded by veesvision.

This guy is a friend in my head. I don't know him and he does not know me but we see each other all the time. I love that he rocks the Puerto Rican gear and walks with his own theme music. One day I will introduce myself.

The most interesting portion of the picture now after the editing, however, are the guys in the background. (They don't look that happy with me shooting.) But it speaks to the changes in the area. Once populated by Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, business on 5th ave in Sunset Park are now catered to and operated mainly by Mexican, Central, and South American.

What is Sunset Park Stills?

Sunset Park Stills is a photo blog. Mainly photographs of landmarks or happenings in the area. On occasion, if there is some extra information that I did not know or perhaps not widely known, I'll add it in.

Being a photographer myself, I naturally looked for images of the area in which I reside. Finding very few, I went on a personal photo journey and shot just about everything I saw in Sunset Park.

The neighborhood is harmoniously divided between eastern and western cultures. What I have found is that this part of Brooklyn, is fundamentally the same as any other town in the USA. We've got churches, parks, dancers, hipsters, artists, skaters, writers, and entrepreneurs. All of us working class trying to make our way in the world.

Hopefully, you have enjoyed looking at this micro neighborhood though my (and my neighbor's) eyes. Maybe it's just a place to some, for others like myself, it's a live documentation of Living the American Dream.