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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!
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!
Price: $21.95
Pages: 208
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Imprint: Wilderness Press
Series: Walking
Publication Date:
14 November 2017
Trim Size: 7.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780899978031
Format: Paperback
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.
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)