The Brooklyn Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide
William B. Helmreich
Princeton University Press, October 2016

Paperback | 5.5 x 8 inches | 424 pages | 89 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-0691166827 | $24.95

Publisher's Description:
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 eve...