Publisher’s Description:

Brooklyn was the place of Thomas Roma's boyhood, a place of lush gardens and expanses of white cement, where the old country and the new world merged. In these photographs of streets, passages, abandoned building-sites and gardens, taken over a period of 20 years, Roma reproduces images of the neighborhoods that shaped him, showing aspects of the city which are by turns amusing, forlorn, and surreal. Introduction by Dr. Robert Coles.