The artist Ephraim Rubenstein, a Brooklyn native, painting the skyline as seen from the banks of the East River under the Manhattan Bridge. (This spot is now the Main Street section of Brooklyn Bridge Park, which includes Pebble Beach and the Dumbo Boulders climbing center.) Aug. 15, 1983. Credit Keith Meyers/The New York Times
Jeff Giles, “The Most Instagrammable Neighborhood in America, Before It Was Cool,” New York Times, September 12, 2019.