Stephen Nessen, Reporter, WNYC News
Stephen Nessen reports for the WNYC Newsroom and can often be heard live on Morning Edition.
Brooklyn by the Books, Blogs and Papers
Monday, July 26, 2010
WNYC compiled a short list of essential Brooklyn reading. Below is our collection of literature, blogs and newspapers. Feel free to add your own suggestions below.
Literature:
"Brooklyn Was Mine" by Valerie Steiker and Chris Knutsen
"The Color of Water" by James McBride
"The Fortress of Solitude" by Jonathan Lethem
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Must-read Brooklyn history, curated by Brooklyn borough historian Ron Schweiger:
"Brooklyn's Gold Coast: The Sheepshead Bay Communities" by Brian Merlis and Lee A. Rosenzweig
"Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure" by Jeffrey I. Richman
"Brooklyn's Flatlands: Beyond the Field" by Lee Rosenzweig and Brian Merlis
"Coney Island: Lost and Found" by Charles Denson
"The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge" by David McCullough
"When Brooklyn Was the World, 1920-1957" by Elliot Willensky
Brooklyn Blogs:
Brooklyn Newspapers and Magazines:
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Brooklyn Heights Blog
Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem.
The Brooklyn Follies, by Paul Auster
As far as I'm concerned also must reads are..
FIPS: www.effedinparkslope.com
Clinton Hill Blog: www.clintonhillblog.com/
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