Brooklyn Summer Heat

All of this heat lately has made the season finally feel like summer. If you are like us, we can’t get enough of swimming holes and pools. It’s a shame we can’t use the lake, or any of the rivers in Brooklyn, like these folks did in the past.

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Small fry beat the heat
Brooklyn Eagle, 1953.
(Prospect Park Lake)

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July in October
Brooklyn Eagle, 1949.

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Cooling their tootsies
Brooklyn Eagle, 1951.
(Prospect Park Lake)

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Marine Park pool
Brooklyn Eagle, 1946.

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Brainerd, George Bradford, 1845-1887.
Coney Island bathers
1880.

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Brainerd, George Bradford, 1845-1887.
Coney Island bathers
187-?

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Froger-Doudement, Raoul, photographer.
Beach scene
ca. 1900.
(Possibly Coney island)

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Thomson, Edgar S., photographer.
Bathing at Bath Beach
1893.

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