The Brooklyn Nobody Knows : : An Urban Walking Guide / / William B. Helmreich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Helmreich, William B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 44 halftones. 45 maps.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Greenpoint --; Williamsburg --; Dumbo --; Vinegar Hill --; Brooklyn Heights --; Cobble Hill --; Downtown Brooklyn --; Boerum Hill --; Carroll Gardens --; Red Hook --; Gowanus --; Park Slope --; Windsor Terrace --; Fort Greene --; Clinton Hill --; Prospect Heights --; Bedford-Stuyvesant --; Crown Heights --; Prospect Lefferts Gardens --; Bushwick --; Cypress Hills --; Brownsville --; East New York --; Canarsie --; East Flatbush --; Flatbush --; Prospect Park South --; Midwood --; Flatlands --; Marine Park --; Bergen Beach --; Mill Basin --; Sunset Park --; Borough Park --; Bay Ridge --; Dyker Heights --; Bensonhurst --; Bath Beach --; Gravesend --; Sheepshead Bay --; Gerritsen Beach --; Manhattan Beach --; Brighton Beach --; Coney Island --; Acknowledgments --; Appendix --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400883127; 9783110638592
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400883127?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: William B. Helmreich.

Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City-6,000 miles in all-to write the award-winning The New York Nobody Knows. Now he has re-walked Brooklyn-some 816 miles-to write this one-of-a-kind walking guide to the city's hottest borough. Drawing on hundreds of conversations he had with residents during his block-by-block journeys, The Brooklyn Nobody Knows captures the heart and soul of a diverse, booming, and constantly changing borough that defines cool around the world. The guide covers every one of Brooklyn's forty-four neighborhoods, from Greenpoint to Coney Island, providing a colorful portrait of each section's most interesting, unusual, and unknown people, places, and things. Along the way you will learn about a Greenpoint park devoted to plants and trees that produce materials used in industry; a hornsmith who practices his craft in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens; a collection of 1,140 stuffed animals hanging from a tree in Bergen Beach; a five-story Brownsville mural that depicts Zionist leader Theodor Herzl-and that was the brainchild of black teenagers; Brooklyn's most private-yet public-beach in Manhattan Beach; and much, much more. An unforgettably vivid chronicle of today's Brooklyn, the book can also be enjoyed without ever leaving home-but it's almost guaranteed to inspire you to get out and explore one of the most fascinating urban areas anywhere.Covers every one of Brooklyn's 44 neighborhoods, providing a colorful portrait of their most interesting, unusual, and unknown people, places, and thingsEach neighborhood section features a brief overview and history; a detailed, user-friendly map keyed to the text; and a lively guided walking tourDraws on the author's 816-mile walk through every Brooklyn neighborhoodIncludes insights from conversations with hundreds of residents