Anderson Zaca captures carnival and community at NYC’s block parties

Anderson Zaca captures carnival and community at NYC’s block parties

Soul of the Summer — Since attending his first street party in Crown Heights two decades ago, photographer Anderson Zaca has spent his summers travelling across New York’s five boroughs, documenting over 300 in the process. “The history of the block party has never been written,” photographer Anderson Zaca says with shock, no less intense today than 20 years ago when he first heard loud music coming down the block from his apartment in Crown Hei…