The Big Onion Guide to Brooklyn: Ten Historic Walking Tours

by KevinBaker (Foreword), SethKamil (Author), EricWakin (Author)

New
Paperback
2005
$18.84

The Big Onion Guide to Brooklyn is an entertaining and informative walking guide to the historic people and places of Brooklyn. Ten fascinating, fact-filled walks are featured, inviting the reader to take an intimate tour through Brooklyn's important historic sites, neighborhoods, cultural institutions, and shops. From the iconic brownstones of Brooklyn Heights to the famous piers on Coney Island, this book covers all of Brooklyn's notable terrain, plus many of the not-so-well known treasures of New York's much beloved borough. Beautifully illustrated with over fifty photographs and complete with maps and easy-to-follow directions, all peppered with informative side-bars and fascinating tales of Brooklyn lore. Over two-and-a-half million New Yorkers call historic and vibrant Brooklyn home and thousands more are drawn to this borough every day. Whether you're new in town or a native New Yorker exploring Brooklyn for the day, this exceptional walking guide to the historic people and places of Brooklyn is essential reading. The Big Onion Guide to Brooklyn offers you a chance to explore: * Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights: Take a walk through the oldest urban section of Brooklyn with more than 600 Antebellum homes. * Coney Island: Frolic in Brooklyn's playground, the great Sodom by the Sea. * Prospect Park: Stroll over intricate bridges, past the boathouse, sculptures and monuments of Brooklyn's emerald jewel.* Williamsburg: Explore this ever-changing neighborhood that is Italian, Latino, Hassidic, and Hipster all at once.* Park Slope: Discover one of the best loved residential neighborhoods in Brooklyn, the ninteenth-century suburb on the subway. * Green-Wood Cemetery: Learn about famous Brooklynites buried within this historic garden cemetery.

Synopsis

The Big Onion Guide to Brooklyn is an entertaining and informative walking guide to the historic people and places of Brooklyn. Ten fascinating, fact-filled walks are featured, inviting the reader to take an intimate tour through Brooklyn's important historic sites, neighborhoods, cultural institutions, and shops. From the iconic brownstones of Brooklyn Heights to the famous piers on Coney Island, this book covers all of Brooklyn's notable terrain, plus many of the not-so-well known treasures of New York's much beloved borough. Beautifully illustrated with over fifty photographs and complete with maps and easy-to-follow directions, all peppered with informative side-bars and fascinating tales of Brooklyn lore. Over two-and-a-half million New Yorkers call historic and vibrant Brooklyn home and thousands more are drawn to this borough every day. Whether you're new in town or a native New Yorker exploring Brooklyn for the day, this exceptional walking guide to the historic people and places of Brooklyn is essential reading. The Big Onion Guide to Brooklyn offers you a chance to explore: * Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights: Take a walk through the oldest urban section of Brooklyn with more than 600 Antebellum homes. * Coney Island: Frolic in Brooklyn's playground, the great "Sodom by the Sea."* Prospect Park: Stroll over intricate bridges, past the boathouse, sculptures and monuments of Brooklyn's emerald jewel.* Williamsburg: Explore this ever-changing neighborhood that is Italian, Latino, Hassidic, and Hipster all at once.* Park Slope: Discover one of the best loved residential neighborhoods in Brooklyn, the "ninteenth-century suburb on the subway."* Green-Wood Cemetery: Learn about famous Brooklynites buried within this historic garden cemetery.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 30 Apr 2005
ISBN 10: 081474785X
ISBN 13: 9780814747858

Media Reviews

Well researched --Library Journal Praise for The Big Onion Guide to New York City: One could scarcely find a more informative and engaging guide than this book... It is a delight, deeply knowledgeable, presented with wit and style. Would that more historians engage the public so well. --New York History A wondeful little guide probing many historic neighborhoods and buildings. --The Bookwatch A nice mix of the fun and the factual. --Block Magazine The founders of the acclaimed Big Onion Walking Tours outline 10 historical walks in their home borough, from America's first pencil factory to Bedford-Stuyvesant's beautiful row houses to Coney Island. --San Francisco Chronicle.

Author Bio

Seth Kamil and Eric Wakin are, respectively, the president and chief tour guide of the largest and best-known walking tour company in the United States-Big Onion Walking Tours. They are also the authors of The Big Onion Guide to New York City: Ten Historic Tours, also published by NYU Press. Both live in Brooklyn, NY. Eric Wakin is Chief Tour Guide. Their company conducts more than 1,200 tours of New York City for more than 35,000 people each year. They are both in the Ph.D. program in history at Columbia.