DUMBO’S Adams Street library set up a table at the Pearl Street Triangle to hand out viewing glasses and eclipse craft kits. All 350 pairs of glasses ran out in 15 minutes — but the craft kits were still in demand, and people posed inside a giant “Eclipse 2024” sun mask, with a hole cut out for their faces.
“I love this!” Doreen Gallo, president of the Cadman Park Conservancy said as she donned the mask.
Eclipse party in Cadman Park
Hundreds gathered in Cadman Plaza Park in Downtown Brooklyn for a giant eclipse party. Families mingled with tourists and courthouse personnel who stepped outside to view the eclipse. Spirits were high.
“It’s awesome!” said Brooklyn Heights mom Erica Neiges, watching the eclipse with dad Aaron Martinez and son Olin Martinez, who attends P.S. 8, the Emily Warren Roebling School.
“I did the pinhole thing at my desk at work in 2017. This is better. I love the community, with everyone gathered in the park,” Neiges said.
Downtown Brooklyn residents Chad Ossman and Andrea Mihalko were watching the eclipse through a homemade pinhole camera. Ossman learned how to construct the camera from his father. “My dad was a retired science teacher,” he explained.
Mihalko amazed a crowd of eclipse viewers by extending a colander into the sunlight, projecting multiple miniature eclipses onto the ground. People gathered to point and watch.
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