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Cargando... The neighborhoods of Brooklyn (edición 2004)por Kenneth T. Jackson (Introduction and Series Editor), John B. Manbeck (Editor)
Información de la obraThe Neighborhoods of Brooklyn por Kenneth T. Jackson
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From America's first suburb to its favorite borough, Brooklyn is by all accounts matchless. Taking readers away from the film sets and off the tour buses, borough historian John Manbeck reveals the communities that have defined its diverse neighborhoods, from the early Dutch settlers to today's colonizing hipsters. Through urbanism and war, depression and gentrification, Manbeck's columns, first printed in the Brooklyn Eagle and now collected here, show Brooklyn for what it is- a cultural and social nonpareil that just happens to sit across the East River from Manhattan. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Fittingly, the format of Brooklyn and Queens are the same, with an introduction by historian Kenneth Jackson and alphabetical (not geographical, which would have been my preference) chapters with maps, b/w photos, historical text, and sidebars with neighborhood profiles and facts. Three photo-spreads break up the 45 chapters: the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Prospect Park. (The first reveals how the team's departure to Los Angeles is a wound that won't heal for generations.) Like the Queens edition, which I was reading as I researched my Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture, I picked up the Brooklyn title to get a better handle on some of neighborhoods traversed in a book of architectural walking tours I'm writing. There are other books that provide more depth on individual neighborhoods, but this one does a great job on covering all of them and therefore fitting them together into one diverse borough. ( )