{"product_id":"the-brooklyn-nobody-knows-9780691166827","title":"The Brooklyn Nobody Knows","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBill 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 Brook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Helmreich's chatty Baedeker is a hefty, multifaceted deep dive into New York's popular and most populous borough. He trekked 816 miles from Greenpoint to Cypress Hills, organizing the borough's 71 square miles into 44 communities along the way. New Yorkers and tourists alike can discover the borough's only Cambodian temple, a 1652 farmhouse described as the city's oldest surviving structure and a former mansion transformed into an inn in Bedford-Stuyvesant.\"--Sam Roberts, New York Times \"Even Brooklyn residents will learn something new in this inclusive book, the first of five planned New York City walking guides... Helmreich's narrative focuses on the unusual and unknown, providing street maps ... of Brooklyn's 44 distinct neighborhoods, equaling 71 square miles... Crisp pictures, such as those of Mrs. Maxwell's Bakery--New York's largest party cake store--safety tips, and an impressive bibliography are welcome additions to an appealing work for locals, tourists, and urban explorers.\"--Library Journal \"Both a sit-and-read title and one to consult on the go, Helmreich's guide is chock-full of Brooklyn-insider details from the author's own extensive walking explorations. It's the first of five planned volumes, one for each New York City borough.\"--Booklist \"Helmreich's upbeat book is built around walking Brooklyn's streets day and night, and also talking to people he encounters. He sees Brooklyn as diverse and ever changing... From Greenpoint to Coney Island, every section is given a chapter, with Helmreich focusing on less known aspects of these neighborhoods.\"--Leonard Quart, Berkshire Eagle \"[Helmreich] knocks around all forty-four neighborhoods, all seventy-one square miles, and may well have wished a good day to each of the borough's 2.6 million inhabitants. Helmreich is smitten with Brooklyn; I'll even take the liberty of saying he loves the place, loves the whole city. He's the kind of guy who asks questions... He knows there are parts of Brooklyn that can only be disarmed by common decency--not that he isn't commonly decent... That takes a special, radiant aura of street credibility. He also knows the power of laughter, and when to laugh.\"--Peter Lewis, Barnes and Noble Review \"Professor and historian William Helmreich follows up his successful tome The New York Nobody Knows--for which he canvassed every single NYC block, covering 6,000 miles--with a Brooklyn-specific edition, sharing stories of the unlikely characters and places he met along the way. (And yes, more books about the other four boroughs are coming, too).\"--Amy Plitt, Curbed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction ix  Greenpoint 3  Williamsburg 15  DUMBO 33  Vinegar Hill 39  Brooklyn Heights 43  Cobble Hill 51  Downtown Brooklyn 57  Boerum Hill 63  Carroll Gardens 71  Red Hook 81  Gowanus 89  Park Slope 97  Windsor Terrace 107  Fort Greene 117  Clinton Hill 125  Prospect Heights 135  Bedford-Stuyvesant141  Crown Heights 151  Prospect Lefferts Gardens 161  Bushwick 171  Cypress Hills181  Brownsville187  East New York 195  Canarsie203  East Flatbush 213  Flatbush 223  Prospect Park South 231  Midwood 237  Flatlands 245  Marine Park 253  Bergen Beach 261  Mill Basin 267  Sunset Park 277  Borough Park 289  Bay Ridge 299  Dyker Heights 309  Bensonhurst 315  Bath Beach325  Gravesend 333  Sheepshead Bay 339  Gerritsen Beach 349  Manhattan Beach 357  Brighton Beach 363  Coney Island 371  Acknowledgments 381  Appendix 383  Notes 387  Bibliography 391  Index 397","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403817722199,"sku":"9780691166827","price":19.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691166827.jpg?v=1730484635","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-brooklyn-nobody-knows-9780691166827","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}