In 1980, a photographer was sent out to the depths of Brooklyn to document the cultural phenomenon occurring on a nightly basis in a 36,000 square-foot warehouse of a building.Patrick D. Pagnano, who worked for Forbes, traveled with his cameras to the Crown Heights neighborhood, where just around the corner from where the Dodgers' Ebbets Field once stood he slipped into the crowd at the Empire Rollerdrome and began shooting.There he to take the city by storm: New Yorkers young and old twirling across maple floorboards, dancing on roller skates to the pulse of disco beats beneath a marquee declaring they were in 'the birthplace of roller disco.'
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