Walking Brooklyn

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name = "Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies, Neighborhood Culture, Side Streets, and Waterways"
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author = Adrienne Onofri
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Travel
publisher = Wilderness Press
release_date = June 2007
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 246 pp
isbn = ISBN 978-0-89997-430-9
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followed_by = "Walking Brooklyn" is a book by Adrienne Onofri that was published in mid-2007 by Wilderness Press. Its subtitle is "30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies, Neighborhood Culture, Side Streets, and Waterways". In terms of neighborhoods covered, it is the most comprehensive guidebook to Brooklyn.
The 246-page book consists of 30 chapters, each providing a walking tour route in an area of Brooklyn.Step-by-step directions are provided for each walk, along with an introductory paragraph about the neighborhood(s) and a map showing the walk route. Each chapter concludes with a list of Points of Interest on the walk and a Route Summary. Points of Interest include restaurants, bars, shops, museums, performance venues, historic buildings and other places along the route. All the Points of Interest in the book are listed by category in an appendix. The book is illustrated throughout with photographs, most of them taken by the author.
In his review of "Walking Brooklyn", Sam Roberts of "The New York Times" wrote: “A book about Brooklyn published by the Wilderness Press? Turns out it’s a wonderful idea. ...a charming, practical and informative guide to seeing the familiar and undiscovered features of the borough on foot.” [cite web |title=Reading New York |publisher="The New York Times" |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/nyregion/thecity/05read.html ] In a story titled “Her book is a (walking) tour de force,” Denis Hamill of the New York "Daily News" said the book “tells you what’s worth seeing or sampling in each neighborhood and how best to navigate it and where to eat while uncovering historical and cultural nuggets many natives never knew.” [cite web |title=“Her book is a (walking) tour de force” |publisher="Daily News" |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2007/07/31/2007-07-31_her_book_is_a_walking_tour_de_force.html ] According to the website Brooklyn Based, "Walking Brooklyn" is “the most definitive Brooklyn tour guide you can carry” and “is filled with these you-don’t-say moments. In it, [Onofri] distills the borough’s history, neighborhoods, and culture into 30 illuminating walks, some in areas...you can’t believe they’re in Brooklyn.” [cite web |title=“Brooklyn By Foot” |publisher=Brooklyn Based |url=http://www.brooklynbased.net/everything/brooklyn-by-foot ]
"Walking Brooklyn" was one of the first titles in Wilderness Press’ urban trekking series. Others include "Walking L.A." (first published 2005, second edition 2008), "Walking San Francisco" (2007), "Walking Boston" (summer 2008) and "Walking Chicago" (September 2008). As of April 2008, Wilderness Press is owned by Keen Communications, parent company of Menasha Ridge Press and Clerisy Press.
"Walking Brooklyn"’s table of contents is as follows:
:Author’s Note
:Locator Map
:Introduction
:1. Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn Heights Promenade
:2. Manhattan Bridge and Ferry District
:3. Dumbo and Vinegar Hill
:4. Downtown
:5. Brooklyn Heights
:6. Boerum Hill and Cobble Hill
:7. Carroll Gardens and Gowanus
:8. Red Hook
:9. Park Slope
:10. Prospect Park
:11. Prospect Heights
:12. Around Prospect Park
:(includes Windsor Terrace, the Parade Ground, Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Brooklyn Botanic Garden)
:13. Flatbush and Midwood
:14. Crown Heights
:15. Bedford-Stuyvesant
:16. Fort Greene
:17. Clinton Hill
:18. Bushwick
:19. Williamsburg
:20. Greenpoint
:21. The Green-Wood Cemetery
:22. Sunset Park
:23. Bay Ridge
:24. Fort Hamilton to Bensonhurst
:(includes Dyker Heights and Bath Beach)
:25. Gravesend
:26. Coney Island and Brighton Beach
:27. Manhattan Beach and Sheepshead Bay
:28. Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, and Mill Basin
:29. East New York and Canarsie Pier
:30. Cypress Hills and Highland Park
:Appendix 1: Walks by Theme
:Appendix 2: Points of Interest
:Index
:About the Author

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External links

* [http://www.wildernesspress.com/product.php?productid=16541 Wilderness Press site]
* [http://www.trails.com/catalog_product.asp?productfamilyid=10912#trails Access (for a fee) to book content by route on Trails.com]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/nyregion/thecity/05read.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Review in "The New York Times" August 5, 2007]
* [http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2007/07/31/2007-07-31_her_book_is_a_walking_tour_de_force.html “Her book is a (walking) tour de force” "Daily News" July 31, 2007]
* [http://brooklynbased.net/everything/brooklyn-by-foot “Brooklyn By Foot” Brooklyn Based June 26, 2007]
* [http://brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&id=14190 “Brooklyn Bridge to Brighton Beach: All in a Day’s Walk” "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" July 19, 2007]
* [http://www.pace.edu/page.cfm?doc_id=29169 “Faculty Bookshelf: Crossing the Great Borough of Brooklyn on Foot” Pace University]
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0899974309/ "Walking Brooklyn" on Amazon.com]
* [http://forever22.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/w-walking-brooklyn/ Forever 22 blog’s Brooklyn A-Z, W: Walking Brooklyn]
* [http://www.flickr.com/groups/guesswhere/discuss/72157605249094004/ Book recommendation by Frank Lynch on Flickr]
* [http://broadwayworld.com/author.cfm?authorid=9 Author Adrienne Onofri’s column for BroadwayWorld.com]