Ninth Street & Prospect Park West
Here are two images taken of a restaurant’s interior; the location is Ninth Street and Prospect Park West, Brooklyn. I believe the current building to be a replacement/newer structure, but am unsure.
Update: this from a Pratt alum, That's Raintrees Restaurant it was Lewnes Ice Cream before that - it was demolished for condos. Given this, I was able to get the (quite tragic) story here.
I may have been under the sway of Phil Perkis by this stage, as I recall that he espoused a “more is more” approach to packing the frame with lots of stuff. Perkis was a revered Pratt photography professor, well known in the New York photography world and beyond.
Of course, one may think that I’d also been looking at some Atget, who was enjoying much play at the MoMA right around that time.
The park, a building across Ninth, and a bus headed south can all be seen in the reflections on the plate-glass window and perhaps mirrored surfaces inside the establishment.
Two images by Richard Koenig; taken in the spring of 1982.
