The new Brooklyn : what it takes to bring a city back
by Hymowitz, Kay S., 1948- (Author)
Summary
"Only a few decades ago, the Brooklyn stereotype well known to Americans was typified by television programs such as "The Honeymooners" and "Welcome Back, Kotter"-comedies about working-class sensibilities, deprivation, and struggles. Today, the borough across the East River from Manhattan is home t... Full description
- The old Brooklyn, part one
- The old Brooklyn, part two
- Park Slope : the new Brooklyn takes shape
- Haute hippie Williamsburg
- The Brooklyn Navy Yard : new Brooklyn's new manufacturing
- Bedford-Stuyvesant : a ghetto in transition
- or is gentrification racist?
- Brownsville : the permanent ghetto
- Sunset Park : Chinese immigrants in blue sky Brooklyn
- Canarsie : West Indians in the promised borough
- Recovering cities.