The Streets of Brooklyn: The Pedestrian Pleasures of a Sunday Columnist, 1886–87 - 3392

In the late nineteenth century, a Brooklyn Daily Eagle columnist who signed his reports "E.R.G." chronicled a pedestrian-level view of the architecture, history and street life of the city’s thoroughfares, describing how its interlocking roadways formed the tapestry of a budding metropolis—then in the midst of a grand transformation after the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. He watches the Saturday shoppers on Myrtle Avenue and the Sunday gamblers on Baltic Street; he studies the handsome villas of Washington Avenue and the shanties of Columbia Street; he celebrates Shore Road and lambastes the Gowanus Canal. Often cited by local historians for their detail and flair, these columns are for the first time collected by historian Henry Stewart (How Bay Ridge Became Bay Ridge), who demystifies the obscurest references while piecing together how the story of one of the largest cities in America began on its sidewalks.
ASIN: B0D2NK51WK
VSKU: BVV.B0D2NK51WK.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:G., E. R.|Stewart, Henry
Binding: Paperback