Coney Island Punks - 1959

Coney Island is a strange place, a part of New York City that doesn't feel at all like New York City- it's got it's own identity and way about it.  Spend a summer Saturday walking along the boardwalk and you're sure to come across a wide range of social cultures- bike gangs, Puerto Rican locals, tourists...

Bruce Davidson hung out with teenage punks, The Jokers, during the summer of 1959 and documented their social lives at Coney Island and around Brooklyn.



The kids:

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