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Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City - 6,000 miles in all - to write the award-winning The New York Nobody Knows. Now he has re-walked Brooklyn - some 816 miles - to write this one-of-a-kind walking guide to the citys hottest borough. Drawing on hundreds of conversations he had with residents during his block-by-block journeys, The Brooklyn Nobody Knows captures the heart and soul of a diverse, booming, and constantly changing borough that defines cool around the world. The guide covers every one of Brooklyns forty-four neighborhoods, from Greenpoint to Coney Island, providing a colorful portrait of each sections most interesting, unusual, and unknown people, places, and things

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"This guidebook is a delight to read and it´s going to be a big hit with Brooklynites and anyone else who is curious about the borough. Far more than the usual travel guide, it is just filled with insight. It makes me want to jump on the subway and head over to Brooklyn. I want to see all the idiosyncratic things it describes, from the City Reliquary, to the remnants of the Syrian Jewish community, to the outlandish McMansions."--Harvey Molotch, New York University

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William B. Helmreich is the author many books, including The New York Nobody Knows (Princeton), which won the inaugural 2014-15 Guides Association of New York Award for Outstanding Achievement in Book Writing. He is professor of sociology at the City College of New York´s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and at CUNY Graduate Center. The Brooklyn Nobody Knows is the first of five planned walking guides, one for each borough of New York City.

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