A Sunday in Brower Park
Brooklyn’s parks are the closest most neighborhoods get to a town square, a refuge for all across class and culture. Coming to you not from the fields of Prospect Park, but the smaller spots across the borough, “A Sunday in…” spotlights residents who turn to the commons — and asks what’s on their mind.
In the early ’70s, The New York Times wrote a story about a spike in shootings around Crown Heights’ Brower Park, which cops attributed to Rastafarians. “Some Rastafarians smoke marijuana,” the Times — always ahead of the curve — noted.
“Brower Park … is in an area that has seen the influx of many thousands of blacks and Puerto Ricans in recent years,” the 1971 article noted.