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The Brooklyn Nobody Knows : An Urban Walking Guide /
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 resi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (424 p.) : 44 halftones. 45 maps. |
| ISBN: | 9781400883127 9783110638592 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |