The Guide that Shows You Around All of Brooklyn
The new second edition of the popular book Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours
Exploring Historical Legacies, Neighborhood Culture, Side Streets, and
Waterways provides a unique guide to Brooklyn's diverse communities,
notable sights, and ever-evolving streetscape. Author Adrienne
Onofri has crafted 30 exceptional tours showcasing the borough's
history, architecture, parks, arts venues, college campuses, places made
famous by pop culture, and more.
Each chapter of Walking Brooklyn features a DIY tour route, with
step-by-step directions, an area map, photographs, and public
transportation information. Every tour tells the story of a
neighborhood's past, present, and future, shedding light on its
buildings and landmarks, community life, ethnic heritage, cultural and
retail scene, and role in Brooklyn's renaissance. Readers will discover
revitalized districts and state-of-the-art new developments; stroll
along the river, bay, or ocean; visit galleries, performance spaces, and
artists' workshops; and see residences ranging from the iconic
brownstones to Victorian houses to contemporary high-rises.
This fully revised and updated book now comes in color and includes
places that were opened or revived since the first edition was published
in 2007, such as the Kings Theatre, Barclays Center, Brooklyn Navy Yard,
Prospect Park's LeFrak Center at Lakeside, City Point, Brooklyn Bridge
Park, East River State Park, and Industry City. New routes have been
created in neighborhoods that have undergone significant changes, like
Downtown, Dumbo, Gowanus, Red Hook, Coney Island, and Bushwick.
Walking Brooklyn is the most comprehensive guidebook available to
Brooklyn, covering nearly 40 neighborhoods--from those close to
Manhattan (like Brooklyn Heights and Williamsburg) through Park Slope,
Fort Greene, Crown Heights, and the rest of the brownstone belt and out
to the neighborhoods east of Prospect Park as well as the traditional
communities of southern Brooklyn such as Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, and
Gerritsen Beach. Entire walks are devoted to Prospect Park and
Green-Wood Cemetery, while many other green spaces are featured on
neighborhood tours. Brooklyn's waterfront is also well-represented,
including on a walk that crosses both the Brooklyn and Manhattan
Bridges.
Walking Brooklyn is the only book you need if you want to explore--or
reminisce about--this historic, dynamic place that everybody's talking
about!
