The huge Onion advisor to Brooklyn is an pleasing and informative jogging consultant to the historical humans and areas of Brooklyn. Ten attention-grabbing, fact-filled walks are featured, inviting the reader to take an intimate travel via Brooklyn's vital ancient websites, neighborhoods, cultural associations, and shops.
From the enduring brownstones of Brooklyn Heights to the well-known piers on Coney Island, this booklet covers all of Brooklyn’s remarkable terrain, plus the various not-so-well identified treasures of recent York's a lot liked borough. fantastically illustrated with over fifty images and entire with maps and easy-to-follow instructions, all peppered with informative side-bars and engaging stories of Brooklyn lore.
Over two-and-a-half million New Yorkers name historical and colourful Brooklyn domestic and millions extra are interested in this borough on a daily basis. no matter if you are new on the town or a local New Yorker exploring Brooklyn for the day, this unprecedented jogging consultant to the old humans and locations of Brooklyn is vital reading.
The enormous Onion consultant to Brooklyn will give you an opportunity to explore:
- Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights: Take a stroll in the course of the oldest city component to Brooklyn with greater than six hundred Antebellum homes.
- Coney Island: Frolic in Brooklyn's playground, the good “Sodom by means of the Sea.”
- Prospect Park: walk over problematic bridges, earlier the boathouse, sculptures and monuments of Brooklyn’s emerald jewel.
- Williamsburg: discover this ever-changing local that's Italian, Latino, Hassidic, and Hipster all at once.
- Park Slope: notice the most effective enjoyed residential neighborhoods in Brooklyn, the “ninteenth-century suburb at the subway.”
- Green-Wood Cemetery: find out about recognized Brooklynites buried inside of this historical backyard cemetery.
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