THE CHANGING FACE OF A STOOP (1921)
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The story you are about to read was composed from research conducted in the course of one of those investigations.
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In 1921, the Nilsen family purchased their Bay Ridge home at 8719 Colonial Road. Immediately, it seems, they began to document a lifelong record of their family’s generations, all surrounding one of the more iconic features attached to a Brooklyn home – their stoop.
With a fascinating collection of photographs arranged in a chronological order, Bonnie Nilsen – whose father, Frank, is in most of the photographs – laid out her family’s record of life on the stoop of the original Nilsen family home.
(The original record – along with Bonnie’s other photographs – can be seen at her website, BonnieNilsen.com.)
In the meantime, though, we’d like to share a few of the more “stoop-central” photographs below.
(See if you can spot the changes over the years.)
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