Sunset Park Stills: What you see in Sunset Park, Brooklyn: Skate kid

Sunday, June 13, 2010

What you see in Sunset Park, Brooklyn: Skate kid

Skate kid, originally uploaded by carnade.

Lots and lots of "skate kids" (all ages) skate in and around the neighborhood. If you skate (or freestyle on a bike or blades), Sunset Park seems to be the place to show off the latest trick.

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.