They soared on swings. They rode the see-saw. They went to the hoop. They picknicked and fished and soaked up the late autumn sun

Photo by Leslie Ann Caraballo
Jose Vazquez helped his son Alviery, 4, go fishing, as his mother Jenny DeLeon, standing, his cousin Arsana DeLeon, seated left, and her friend Lisandra Garcia looked on.
On a Saturday in mid-Fall, Barretto Point Park was everything those who had fought so hard for so long to create an oasis on the Hunts Point waterfront had hoped it would be.
Photographer Leslie Ann Caraballo spent the day on Oct. 13 capturing the park’
s beauty and the pleasure of the residents who basked in it.
