Introduction

A. 1 - Books

A. 2 - Web sites

B. - Brooklyn Community Districts

C. - Brooklyn Neighborhoods

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       A.1. Books

Over 75 titles. (For each one, the following information is provided in the column indicated.)

          (a)    Subject heading.

          (b)    Citation (Title, author, edition, place of publication, publisher, year published).

          (c)    CUNY holdings. KCC’s entries appear in bold print.  Current CUNY students, faculty, and                        administrators can borrow circulating copies of these titles using (CLICS) CUNY Libraries                      Inter-Campus Services. 

          (d)    OCLC (Online Computer Library Center). Links to full-text or online catalogs of local libraries              that own a copy of the title as well as other details - image of the cover, subject headings, etc.

          (e)    BBB (BestBookBuys) - Purchasing information and links to online book sites.

          (f)     AOR (Amazon Online Reader) / GB (Google Books) - Links to the book’s Table of Contents,              an excerpt, the book’s index, etc., publisher, etc.

                  Note: The following web sites provide additional books resources about Brooklyn.

 

Know Your Way Around "Fictional" Brooklyn?: (Amazon guide)

My Brooklyn - Books and Movies (Brooklyn Public Library)

          

                   a.     Subjects

Architecture

Arts

Baseball

Cookery

Economic conditions

Guidebooks

History

Literary collections

Miscellanea

Neighborhoods

Pictorial works

Postcards

Race relations

Services

Social life & customs

Transportation

 

 

              

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Architecture

Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn. Francis Morrone. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 2001.

CUNY

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BBB

AOR GB

Black Churches of Brooklyn. Clarence Taylor. Columbia University Press, 1996.

CUNY KB

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BBB

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Sanctuary. Thomas Roma. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

CUNY

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Arts

 

Brooklyn Film: Essays in the History of Filmmaking. John B. Manbeck and Robert Singer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2003.

CUNY KB

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BBB

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Directory of Brooklyn Arts Organizations. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Arts Council, 2001.

 

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History of Brooklyn's Three Major Performing Arts Institutions. Barbara Parisi. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003.

CUNY KB

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How Music Grew in Brooklyn: a Biography of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra. Maurice Edwards. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006.

CUNY

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Baseball

 

Long Before the Dodgers: Baseball in Brooklyn, 1855-1884. James L. Terry. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002.

CUNY KB

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Superstars and Screwballs: 100 Years of Brooklyn Baseball. Richard Goldstein. New York: Dutton, 1991.

 

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Cookery

Brooklyn Cookbook. Lyn Stallworth and Rod Kennedy. New York: Knopf, 1991.

 

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Economic conditions

Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn. Marc Linder and Lawrence Zacharias. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1999.

CUNY KB

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BBB

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Guidebooks

Big Onion Guide to Brooklyn: Ten Historic Walking Tours. Seth Kamil and Eric Wakin. New York: New York University Press, 2005.

CUNY

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Blackbook Guide 2007 Brooklyn. Blackbook Media Corp, 2007.

 

 

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Brooklyn Atlas. Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce & Stephan Van Dam. New York: VanDam, 1998.

CUNY

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Brooklyn! the Ultimate Guide to New York's Most Happening Borough. 3rd ed. Ellen Freudenheim and Anna Wiener. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004. .

 

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Brooklyn!: a Soup-to-nuts Guide to Sights, Neighborhoods, and Restaurants. Ellen Freudenheim. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1999.

CUNY KB

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Brooklyn: Attractions, Restaurants, Nightlife, Shopping. New York, NY: Zagat Survey, 2002.

 

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Brooklyn's Best: Sightseeing, Shopping, Eating, and Happy Wandering in the Borough of Kings. Alfred Gingold and Helen Rogan. New York: City & Co., 1998.

 

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Flatbush Odyssey: a Journey Through the Heart of Brooklyn. Allen Abel. Toronto: M & S, 1995.

CUNY

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Hagstrom Brooklyn Atlas. Maspeth, NY: Hagstrom Map Co., 2001.

 

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NFT: Not for Tourists Pocket Guide Brooklyn. Jane Pirone. New York: Happy Mazza Media LLC, 2002.

 

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Panorama of New York, Brooklyn, and Vicinity. New York: Wittemann Bros., 1879.

 

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Streetwise Brooklyn. Streetwise Maps, Sarasota, FL: Streetwise Maps, Inc., 2000.

 

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This is Brooklyn: a Guide to the Borough’s Historic Districts and Landmarks. Andrew S. Dolkart. Brooklyn, N.Y: Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn, 1995.

CUNY KB

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Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies, Neighborhood Culture, Side Streets and Waterways. Adrienne Onofri. Wilderness Pr, 2007.

 

 

 

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History

Brooklyn-- and How It Got That Way. David W. McCullough. New York: Dial Press, 1983.

CUNY KB

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Brooklyn by Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges and More Got Their Names. Leonard Benardo and Jennifer Weiss. New York: New York University Press, 2006.

CUNY KB

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Brooklyn Century. John B. Manbeck. Brooklyn, NY: Office of Borough President Howard Golden, 2001.

CUNY KB

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Brooklyn Chronicles: Myths, Legends and Falsehoods, Questionable Facts and Stories of Bklyn, Mother of Boroughs. Irwin Fleminger. Brooklyn, NY: the author, 1996.

CUNY

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Brooklyn Is America. Ralph Foster Weld. New York, AMS Press, 1967.

CUNY KB

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Brooklyn Then & Now. Marcia Reiss. San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2002.

 

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Brooklyn! an Illustrated History. Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier for the Brooklyn Historical Society. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. (Chapter 1 - PDF File)

CUNY KB

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BBB (2004)

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Brooklyn: a Journey Through the City of Dreams. Judith Stonehill and Francis Morrone. New York: Universe, 2004.

CUNY

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Brooklyn: a State of Mind. New York: Workman Pub., 2001.

CUNY KB

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Civil, Political, Professional and Ecclesiastical History, and Commercial and Industrial Record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1683 to 1884, Henry Reed Stiles. New York: W. W. Munsell & Co., 1884.

CUNY KB

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Gateway to the City. Brooklyn Historical Society.

 

 

 

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History Hunters. Brooklyn Historical Society.

 

 

 

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History of the City of Brooklyn: Including the Old Town and Village of Brooklyn, the Town of Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburgh. Henry Reed Stiles, 1993 (reprint).

CUNY KB

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In Gotham's Shadow: Brooklyn and the Consolidation of Greater New York. Steven A. Levine. Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2002.

CUNY

 

 

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Miller's New York As It Is, or Stranger's Guide-Book to the Cities of New York, Brooklyn and Adjacent Places: Comprising Notices of Every Object of Interest to Strangers ... (PDF) (Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan)

CUNY

 

Out of print

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Old Dutch Houses of Brooklyn. Maud Esther Dilliard. New York: R. R. Smith, 1945.

CUNY

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Literary collections

Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn. Julia Spicher Kasdorf, New York: New York University Press, 2007.

 

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Brooklyn and the World: a Special Confrontation Anthology Issue. Martin Tucker. Southampton, NY: Long Island University, 1983.

CUNY KB

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Brooklyn Born: Poems From My Youth. Richard Carroll. Sound Beach, NY: Street Press, 2002.

 

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Brooklyn Reader: 30 Writers Celebrate America's Favorite Borough. Alice Leccese Powers. New York: Harmony Books, 1994.

CUNY KB

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From the Heart of Brooklyn. Jill M. Neziri. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vivisphere Pub., 2006.

 

 

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Various Gifts: Brooklyn Fiction of the 1980's. Brooklyn, N.Y: Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn, 1987.

CUNY KB

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Miscellanea

Brooklyn Fact & Trivia Book. Harriet Lyons. Brooklyn, NY: Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn, 1986.

CUNY KB

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Neighborhoods

Community District Needs 2005

 

 

 

 

Neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Kenneth T. Jackson and John B. Manbeck. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

CUNY KB

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Pictorial works

Brooklyn the Way It Was: Over 200 Vintage Photographs From the Collection of Brian Merlis. Brooklyn, NY: Israelowitz Book Publisher, 1995.

 

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Out of print

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Brooklyn: People and Places, Past and Present. Grace Glueck and Paul Gardner. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1991.

CUNY KB

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Brooklyn: the Centennial Edition. Brian Merlis & Oscar Israelowitz. Brooklyn, NY: Israelowitz, 1998.

CUNY

 

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Found in Brooklyn. Thomas Roma and Robert Coles. New York: Center for Documentary Studies in association with W.W. Norton, 1996.

CUNY KB

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Out of print

GB

King's Views of New York, 1896-1915 & Brooklyn, 1905. Moses King. New York: Arno Press, 1977 (reprint).

CUNY KB

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Out of print

 

Welcome Back to Brooklyn. Brian Merlis. Brooklyn, NY: Israelowitz Book Publisher, 1993.

CUNY KB

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Postcards

Brooklyn: The Daily Eagle Postcards, 1905-1907. Richard L. Dutton.

 

 

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Race relations

Covenant With Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn. Steven Wilder. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

CUNY KB

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Restaurants

Brooklyn Eats: the Guide to Brooklyn Restaurants. Margaret Daly. New York: City & Co., 1997.

 

 

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Eat. Shop. Brooklyn. Agnes Baddoo and Kaie Wellman. Portland, OR: Cabazon Books, 2005.

CUNY

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Services

City Baby Brooklyn: the Ultimate Guide for Brooklyn Parents from Pregnancy to Preschool. Alison Lowenstein. New York: Universe/ Rizzoli, 2005.

 

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Social life & customs

 

Brooklyn At Work (Picture This Series). Brooklyn Historical Society.

 

 

 

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Brooklyn in the 1920s. Eric J. Ierardi. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, c1998.

CUNY KB

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Brooklyn in the Sixties. Chappaqua, NY: Crane & Hopper Publishers, 1995.

CUNY

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Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes. James Agee. New York: Fordham University Press, 2005.

CUNY KB

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I Remember Brooklyn: Memories from Famous Sons and Daughters. Ralph Monti. New York: Carol Pub. Group, 1991.

CUNY KB

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It Happened in Brooklyn: An Oral History of Growing Up in the Borough in the 1940S, 1950S, and 1960s. Myrna Frommer and Harvey Frommer. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1993.

CUNY KB

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Jews of Brooklyn. Ilana Abramovitch and Seán Galvin. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press, 2002.

CUNY KB

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Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs, 1865-1929: 157 Prints from the Collection of the Long Island Historical Society. New York: Dover Publications, 1978 (reprint).

CUNY KB

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When Brooklyn Was the World, 1920-1957. Elliot Willensky. New York: Harmony Books, 1986.

CUNY KB

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Transportation

Brooklyn Bridge (Picture This Series). Brooklyn Historical Society.

 

 

 

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Brooklyn On the Move (Picture This Series). Brooklyn Historical Society.

 

 

 

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How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County. Brian J. Cudahy. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002.

CUNY KB

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                      b.    Titles  

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Architecture

Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn.

 

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Guidebooks

Big Onion Guide to Brooklyn.

Architecture

Black Churches of Brooklyn.

Guidebooks

Blackbook Guide 2007 Brooklyn.

Literary collections

Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn.

History

Brooklyn-- and How It Got That Way.  

Literary collections

Brooklyn and the World.

Social life & customs

Brooklyn At Work

Guidebooks

Brooklyn Atlas.  

Literary collections

Brooklyn Born: Poems From My Youth.  

Transportation

Brooklyn Bridge

History

Brooklyn by Name.

History

Brooklyn Century.  

History

Brooklyn Chronicles.

Cookery

Brooklyn Cookbook.  

Restaurants

Brooklyn Eats.  

Miscellanea

Brooklyn Fact & Trivia Book.  

Arts

Brooklyn Film.  

Social life and customs

Brooklyn in the 1920s.  

Social life and customs

Brooklyn in the Sixties.  

History

Brooklyn Is America.  

Social life and customs

Brooklyn Is.  

Transportation

Brooklyn On the Move

Literary collections

Brooklyn Reader: 30 Writers Celebrate America's Favorite Borough.  

Pictorial works

Brooklyn the Way It Was.  

History

Brooklyn Then & Now.  

History

Brooklyn! an Illustrated History.

Guidebooks

Brooklyn! the Ultimate Guide to New York's Most Happening Borough.  

Guidebooks

Brooklyn!: a Soup-to-nuts Guide to Sights, Neighborhoods, and Restaurants.  

History

Brooklyn: a Journey Through the City of Dreams.  

History

Brooklyn: a State of Mind.  

Guidebooks

Brooklyn: Attractions, Restaurants, Nightlife, Shopping.  

Pictorial works

Brooklyn: People and Places, Past and Present.  

Pictorial works

Brooklyn: the Centennial Edition.  

Postcards

Brooklyn: the Daily Eagle Postcards, 1905-1907.

Guidebooks

Brooklyn's Best.  

 

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Services

City Baby Brooklyn.  

History

Civil, Political, Professional and Ecclesiastical History, and Commercial and Industrial Record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N. Y.

Neighborhoods

Community District Needs 2005

Race relations

Covenant With Color.  

 

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Arts

Directory of Brooklyn Arts Organizations.

 

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Restaurants

Eat. Shop. Brooklyn.  

 

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Guidebooks

Flatbush Odyssey.  

Pictorial works

Found in Brooklyn.  

Literary collections

From the Heart of Brooklyn.  

 

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History

Gateway to the City.

 

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Guidebooks

Hagstrom Brooklyn Atlas.  

History

History Hunters.

Arts

History of Brooklyn's Three Major Performing Arts Institutions.

History

History of the City of Brooklyn.  

Arts

How Music Grew in Brooklyn.  

Transportation

How We Got to Coney Island.  

 

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Social life and customs

I Remember Brooklyn.  

History

In Gotham's Shadow.  

 

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Social life and customs

Jews of Brooklyn.

 

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Pictorial works

King's Views of New York, 1896-1915 & Brooklyn, 1905.  

Social life and customs

King's Views of New York, 1896-1915 & Brooklyn, 1905.  

 

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Baseball

Long Before the Dodgers.

 

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Guidebooks

Miller's New York As It Is, or Stranger's Guide-Book to the Cities of New York, Brooklyn and Adjacent Places: Comprising Notices of Every Object of Interest to Strangers ... (PDF)

 

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Guidebooks

Neighborhoods of Brooklyn.  

Guidebooks

NFT: Not for Tourists Pocket Guide Brooklyn.  

 

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Economic conditions

Of Cabbages and Kings County.  

Social life and customs

Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs, 1865-1929. .

History

Old Dutch Houses of Brooklyn.

 

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Guidebooks

Panorama of New York, Brooklyn, and Vicinity.

 

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Architecture

Sanctuary.  

Guidebooks

Streetwise Brooklyn.  

Baseball

Superstars and Screwballs.  

 

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Historic districts

This is Brooklyn.  

 

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Literary collections

Various Gifts.  

 

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Guidebooks

Walking Brooklyn.  

Pictorial works

Welcome Back to Brooklyn.  

Social life & customs

When Brooklyn Was the World, 1920-1957.  

 

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