It doesn't take a passport to visit Brooklyn, as some Manhattanites might lead you to believe. Still, Brooklyn can feel a world away. And that's precisely what locals love about it. It's independent. Fiercely headstrong about maintaining its individuality. Tolerant of the different, the foreign, the weird. But what outsiders might be surprised to learn is that Brooklyn is less an undifferentiated mass than a collection of neighbourhoods, each with its own distinctive character and history. From Bay Ridge, Bed-Stuy and Bergen Beach to Weeksville, Williamsburg and Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn is a patchwork quilt of communities stitched together with mismatched threads from nearly everywhere in the world. Celebrating its in-your-face diversity, but continually churning those differences into something fresh and unique, Brooklyn embodies a hip and cool version of the American experiment. E pluribus unum - from many comes one. Here are 111 places to start your explorations.
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Weight: 490g
Dimensions: 135 x 205mm
Publication Date: 19 Oct 2018
Publisher: Emons Verlag GmbH
Publication City/Country: Germany
Language: English
ISBN13: 9783740803803
About John Major
John Major writes about art and culture especially events and places in Brooklyn his home for the last twelve years. He is also writing a memoir about life as a stay-at-home father of three managing a divorce and international relocation uniquely told through pilgrimages to paintings by the Italian artist Caravaggio. Originally from southern Ohio John is a dedicated explorer of cities. Among his favourites are London (which he called home for a dozen years) Barcelona Rome and Paris. He is determined to never lose the sense of wonder from being a curious explorer both at home and abroad. Ed Lefkowicz is a commercial corporate and editorial photographer. A native New Englander who eventually moved to Brooklyn with his wife Cynthia he enjoys exploring New York City life in all its storied quirkiness. Never without a camera he chronicles the cognitive dissonances that colour life in the boroughs with his alt website TheQuirkySide.com. As photo editor of Edible Queens magazine he fancies himself a saveur and may have been the first to introduce the American term 'foodie' to the French.