Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Greenpoint -- Williamsburg -- Dumbo -- Vinegar Hill -- Brooklyn Heights -- Cobble Hill -- Downtown Brooklyn -- Boerum Hill -- Carroll Gardens -- Red Hook -- Gowanus -- Park Slope -- Windsor Terrace -- Fort Greene -- Clinton Hill -- Prospect Heights -- Bedford-Stuyvesant -- Crown Heights -- Prospect Lefferts Gardens -- Bushwick -- Cypress Hills -- Brownsville -- East New York -- Canarsie -- East Flatbush -- Flatbush -- Prospect Park South -- Midwood -- Flatlands -- Marine Park -- Bergen Beach -- Mill Basin -- Sunset Park -- Borough Park -- Bay Ridge -- Dyker Heights -- Bensonhurst -- Bath Beach -- Gravesend -- Sheepshead Bay -- Gerritsen Beach -- Manhattan Beach -- Brighton Beach -- Coney Island -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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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

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