The Brooklyn Nobody Knows
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 ...