The Brooklyn Experience: The Ultimate Guide to Neighborhoods & Noshes, Culture & the Cutting Edge

Freudenheim, Ellen

From Paris to Rio, everyone's curious about hot, new Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Experience, Ellen Freudenheim's fourth comprehensive Brooklyn guidebook, offers a true insider's guide, complete with photographs, itineraries, and insights into one of the most creative, dynamic cities in the modern world.

Foreword by Steven Hindy, cofounder and chairman, Brooklyn Brewery Preface and Acknowledgments How to Use This Book  Section 1: Welcome To Brooklyn  Brooklyn at a Glance The Brooklyn Bridge Section 2: Old Brooklyn And New Brooklyn Old and Historical Brooklyn The New Brooklyn Section 3: The Neighborhoods  How to Visit a Brooklyn Neighborhood  Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton Bedford-Stuyvesant  Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights Boerum Hill Borough Park Brighton Beach Brooklyn Heights and the Promenade Bushwick Canarsie and East New York Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill Clinton Hill Columbia Waterfront District  Coney Island Crown Heights Downtown Brooklyn and Fulton Mall Dumbo, Fulton Ferry Waterfront, and Vinegar Hill Flatbush Fort Greene Gowanus Greenpoint Greenwood Heights  Marine Park Mill Basin and Floyd Bennett Field Park Slope Prospect Heights and Pacific Park Prospect Lefferts Gardens Red Hook Sheepshead Bay and Manhattan Beach Sunset Park  Williamsburg Windsor Terrace and Kensington Section 4: Where To Go, What To Do Brooklyn's Cultural Science: Fifteen Best Bets Eating and Drinking in Brooklyn: 400 Amazing Restaurants Shopping in Brooklyn: Over 260 Places to Shop Brooklyn's Waterfront and Parks Section 5: Visitor Information DIY Tours Forty Things to Do with Kids Monthly Calendar Tips: Accommodations, Transportation, Safety, Blogs Bibliography: Seventy-Five Works of Fiction Set in Brooklyn Index