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 city's hottest borough. Drawing on hundreds of conversations he had with residents during his block-by-block journeys, The Brook
"The best thing about the book and prospective series is what some might otherwise think of as a defect. The Brooklyn Nobody Knows is a snapshot of a dynamic place in the 2010s, at the height of the Brooklyn hype. . . . Though the reportage will too soon feel dated, it will then enjoy a second life as a historical record."---John Shapiro, Journal of Urban Affairs