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

by Adrienne Onofri

Overview

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 two-color book features 30 routes, a clear neighborhood map for each walk, black-and-white 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780899975580
Publisher:	Wilderness Press
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Series:	Walking
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	17 MB
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About the Author

Adrienne Onofri is a native New Yorker and the author of Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies, Neighborhood Culture, Side Streets, and Waterways and Walking Queens: 30 Tours for Discovering the Diverse Communities, Historic Places, and Natural Treasures of New York City’s Largest Borough. She is a licensed NYC sightseeing guide as well as a journalist specializing in travel and entertainment. Adrienne has covered the travel industry and written about destinations and hotels worldwide as both a staff editor and freelance contributor to various publications. She also has been a copy editor for Entertainment Weekly and a member of the Drama Desk. Adrienne graduated from Northwestern University and holds a master's degree from Pace University.

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)