Walking Brooklyn: 30 walking tours exploring historical legacies, neighborhood culture, side streets, and waterways
The guide that shows you the best of Brooklyn. Brooklyn is comprised of dozens of vibrant neighborhoods, each with its own distinctive quality and history. But for most people, New York City is synonymous with Manhattan, and until recently few visitors have ventured beyond the famous Brooklyn Bridge to explore the city’s largest borough.

With Walking Brooklyn, Adrienne Onofri has created an exceptional guide to and through Brooklyn’s most interesting and notable neighborhoods, providing a mix of information about culture, history, architecture, places to eat, venues to visit, and more. From a walk through the Russian-influenced Brighton Beach, to the expansive Prospect Park, and out to Red Hook, Walking Brooklyn reveals the many layers and sites of Manhattan’s lesser-known neighbor.

This fully updated book now comes in color and features notable buildings/sights/attractions that are new, revived or relocated, like Barclays Center, Prospect Park's Lakeside LeFrak Center, City Point, the Navy Yard, St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn Bridge Park and other places along the waterfront. In addition, some chapters feature new routes within neighborhoods. The book also has a clear neighborhood map for each walk, photographs, and critical public transportation information for every trip. Route summaries make each walk easy to follow, and a “Points of Interest” section outlines each walk’s highlights. The 30 walks include trivia about architecture, local culture, and borough history, plus tips on where to dine, have a drink, and shop.
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Walking Brooklyn: 30 walking tours exploring historical legacies, neighborhood culture, side streets, and waterways
The guide that shows you the best of Brooklyn. Brooklyn is comprised of dozens of vibrant neighborhoods, each with its own distinctive quality and history. But for most people, New York City is synonymous with Manhattan, and until recently few visitors have ventured beyond the famous Brooklyn Bridge to explore the city’s largest borough.

With Walking Brooklyn, Adrienne Onofri has created an exceptional guide to and through Brooklyn’s most interesting and notable neighborhoods, providing a mix of information about culture, history, architecture, places to eat, venues to visit, and more. From a walk through the Russian-influenced Brighton Beach, to the expansive Prospect Park, and out to Red Hook, Walking Brooklyn reveals the many layers and sites of Manhattan’s lesser-known neighbor.

This fully updated book now comes in color and features notable buildings/sights/attractions that are new, revived or relocated, like Barclays Center, Prospect Park's Lakeside LeFrak Center, City Point, the Navy Yard, St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn Bridge Park and other places along the waterfront. In addition, some chapters feature new routes within neighborhoods. The book also has a clear neighborhood map for each walk, photographs, and critical public transportation information for every trip. Route summaries make each walk easy to follow, and a “Points of Interest” section outlines each walk’s highlights. The 30 walks include trivia about architecture, local culture, and borough history, plus tips on where to dine, have a drink, and shop.
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Walking Brooklyn: 30 walking tours exploring historical legacies, neighborhood culture, side streets, and waterways

Walking Brooklyn: 30 walking tours exploring historical legacies, neighborhood culture, side streets, and waterways

by Adrienne Onofri
Walking Brooklyn: 30 walking tours exploring historical legacies, neighborhood culture, side streets, and waterways
Walking Brooklyn: 30 walking tours exploring historical legacies, neighborhood culture, side streets, and waterways

Walking Brooklyn: 30 walking tours exploring historical legacies, neighborhood culture, side streets, and waterways

by Adrienne Onofri

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The guide that shows you the best of Brooklyn. Brooklyn is comprised of dozens of vibrant neighborhoods, each with its own distinctive quality and history. But for most people, New York City is synonymous with Manhattan, and until recently few visitors have ventured beyond the famous Brooklyn Bridge to explore the city’s largest borough.

With Walking Brooklyn, Adrienne Onofri has created an exceptional guide to and through Brooklyn’s most interesting and notable neighborhoods, providing a mix of information about culture, history, architecture, places to eat, venues to visit, and more. From a walk through the Russian-influenced Brighton Beach, to the expansive Prospect Park, and out to Red Hook, Walking Brooklyn reveals the many layers and sites of Manhattan’s lesser-known neighbor.

This fully updated book now comes in color and features notable buildings/sights/attractions that are new, revived or relocated, like Barclays Center, Prospect Park's Lakeside LeFrak Center, City Point, the Navy Yard, St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn Bridge Park and other places along the waterfront. In addition, some chapters feature new routes within neighborhoods. The book also has a clear neighborhood map for each walk, photographs, and critical public transportation information for every trip. Route summaries make each walk easy to follow, and a “Points of Interest” section outlines each walk’s highlights. The 30 walks include trivia about architecture, local culture, and borough history, plus tips on where to dine, have a drink, and shop.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780899978048
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Publication date: 10/10/2017
Series: Walking
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 17 MB
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About the Author

Adrienne Onofri is a native New Yorker, a journalist, and a licensed sightseeing guide. For Wilderness Press, she has also written Walking Queens: 30 Tours for Discovering the Diverse Communities, Historic Places, and Natural Treasures of New York City’s Largest Borough and edited Walking Manhattan: 30 Strolls Exploring Cultural Treasures, Entertainment Centers, and Historical Sites in the Heart of New York City. She has been a copy editor for Entertainment Weekly and written about theater, the arts, and travel for various publications. As a guide, Adrienne has led tours in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens by foot, bus, car, and trolley.

Read an Excerpt

In the 21st century, Brooklyn has experienced a transformation unprecedented in modern urban history. Regarded as a homier, more affordable alternative to Manhattan just a decade ago, it has become a highly coveted, pricey address—a worldwide locus of trendy, artisanal cool and a wellspring of artistic, culinary and technological creativity. While this renaissance has renewed hometown pride, it also has perpetuated a disconnect between today’s Brooklyn and the Brooklyn of so many cherished 20th-century memories. Many newer Brooklynites grew up far from Kings County. They may not even know they’re supposed to hate Walter O’Malley for banishing the Dodgers to California, or Robert Moses for bulldozing a highway through their streets. So we have a place defined by both the past and the future, a personality both nostalgic and on the cutting edge.

Of course, many other events have left their mark on Brooklyn through the years—the devastating assault by the King’s army during the Revolutionary War, the high-bourgeois Victorian age, the lurid decline of the 1970s, to name just a few. Brooklyn can also boast of the great outdoors, with three parks of 450-plus acres and a shoreline that stretches from river to bay to ocean. With all this diversity in its history, its geography, its very essence, Brooklyn is a most exciting place to explore up close and personal...the kind of exploring done best on foot.

Table of Contents


1. In One Bridge (Manhattan Bridge), Out the Other (Brooklyn Bridge)

2. Dumbo and Vinegar Hill

3. Downtown

4. Brooklyn Heights

5. Barclays Center, BAM and Boerum Hill

6. Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill

7. Gowanus

8. Red Hook

9. Park Slope

10. Prospect Park

11. Prospect Heights

12. Around the Park

13. Victorian Flatbush

14. Midwood and Flatbush

15. Crown Heights

16. Bedford-Stuyvesant

17. Fort Greene

18. Clinton Hill and Wallabout

19. Bushwick

20. Williamsburg: Southside, Northside

21. Williamsburg: McCarren Park and the Waterfront

22. Greenpoint

23. Green-Wood Cemetery

24. Sunset Park

25. Bay Ridge, with Fort Hamilton sidebar

26. Gravesend

27. Coney Island and Brighton Beach

28. Manhattan Beach and Sheepshead Bay

29. Gerritsen Beach, with Marine Park sidebar

30. Mill Basin/Paerdegat Basin/Canarsie Pier

31. East New York and Cypress Hills (including Highland Park)

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