Format:
1 Online-Ressource ( xvi, 342 pages)
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Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9780813577456
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9780813577449
Series Statement:
Rivergate Regionals Collection
Content:
The Brooklyn Experience, Ellen Freudenheim's fourth comprehensive Brooklyn book, is the insider's guide to this fun destination. Offering photos, itineraries, and forty-one neighborhood profiles from Coney Island to Williamsburg, the book showcases Brooklyn's remarkable culinary, cultural, and artistic renaissance. Interviews with sixty luminaries capture Brooklyn today: meteoric gentrification, celebrities, mafia trials, artisanal cocktails, and fabulous shopping. A celebration of the vibrant new and gritty old Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Experience lists 800 cultural venues, mom-and-pops, and eat
Content:
Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- How to Use This Book -- Section I: Welcome to Brooklyn -- Brooklyn at a Glance -- The Brooklyn Bridge -- Section II: Old Brooklyn and New Brooklyn -- Old and Historical Brooklyn -- The New Brooklyn -- Section III: The Neighborhoods -- How to Visit a Brooklyn Neighborhood -- Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton -- Bedford-Stuyvesant -- Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights -- Boerum Hill -- Borough Park -- Brighton Beach -- Brooklyn Heights and the Promenade -- Bushwick -- Canarsie and East New York
Content:
Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill -- Clinton Hill -- Columbia Waterfront District -- Coney Island -- Crown Heights -- Downtown Brooklyn and Fulton Mall -- Dumbo, Fulton Ferry Waterfront, and Vinegar Hill -- Flatbush -- Fort Greene -- Gowanus -- Greenpoint -- Greenwood Heights -- Marine Park -- Mill Basin and Floyd Bennett Field -- Park Slope -- Prospect Heights and Pacific Park -- Prospect Lefferts Gardens -- Red Hook -- Sheepshead Bay and Manhattan Beach -- Sunset Park -- Williamsburg -- Windsor Terrace and Kensington -- Section IV: Where to Go, What to Do -- Brooklyn's Cultural Scene
Content:
Eating and Drinking in Brooklyn -- Shopping in Brooklyn -- Brooklyn's Waterfront and Parks -- Section V: Visitor Information -- DIY Tours -- Forty Things to Do with Kids -- Monthly Calendar -- Tips -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Note:
Verfasser des Vorworts: Steve Hindy
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813577432
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Freudenheim, Ellen The Brooklyn experience New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780813577432
Language:
English
Keywords:
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