Brooklyn Nobody Knows (eBook)

An Urban Walking Guide

William B. Helmreich (Autor)

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2016
424 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8312-7 (ISBN)

Infos

William B. Helmreich is the author of many books, including The New York Nobody Knows (Princeton), which won the inaugural 2014-15 Guides Association of New York Award for Outstanding Achievement in Book Writing. He is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the City College of New York's Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and at CUNY Graduate Center. The Brooklyn Nobody Knows is the first of five planned walking guides, one for each borough of New York City.

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A one-of-a-kind walking guide to Brooklyn, from the man who walked every block in New York CityBill Helmreich walked every block of New York City-6,000 miles in all-to write the award-winning The New York Nobody Knows. Later, he 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.10.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 44 halftones. 45 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Affordable Housing • African Americans • Air Conditioning • amenity • Apartment • Art deco • Avenue H (BMT Brighton Line) • Avenue I (IND Culver Line) • Avenue J (BMT Brighton Line) • Bakery • Basement • Bay Ridge, Brooklyn • Bedford Avenue • Belt Parkway • Bensonhurst, Brooklyn • black people • Boerum Hill • Boutique • Brooklyn • Brooklyn Navy Yard • Brownstone • Bushwick, Brooklyn • Cafeteria • Canarsie, Brooklyn • Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn • Church Avenue (IRT Nostrand Avenue Line) • Clothing • Cobble Hill • commercial area • Coney Island Avenue • Dim Sum • dining room • Downtown Brooklyn • driveway • Dwelling • East New York (LIRR station) • Ecuadorians • fishing village • Flatbush Avenue • Flatlands Avenue • gazebo • Gentrification • grandparent • Green-Wood Cemetery • grocery store • Gym • Italians • Jamaica Bay • Jews • kosher restaurant • Levine • Longevity • Lower East Side • Lunch • mansion • meal • mexicans • Mill Basin, Brooklyn • month • Mosque • Neck Road (BMT Brighton Line) • Newtown Creek • New York City • New York City Housing Authority • nightclub • Ocean Avenue (Santa Monica) • Ocean Parkway (Long Island) • Outfit (retailer) • Park • Park Slope • Pizza • Poles • Prager • Prospect Park South • Public housing • Puerto Ricans • residence • Residential community • Restaurant • restaurateur • Sausage • Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn • Shirt • Shopping mall • Slum • Statue • Streets (ice cream) • suburb • Suggestion • supermarket • swimming pool • take-out • Tenement • Thirteenth Avenue (Manhattan) • Tile • Vegetable • walkway • World War II • Yiddish • zagat
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8312-1 / 1400883121
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8312-7 / 9781400883127