Celebrate America's hometown in a rollicking portrait from Brooklyn's legion of writers, artists, raconteurs and neighborhood savants.
Arthur Miller on Midwood, Spike Lee on Fort Greene, Susan Brownmiller as a Flatbush girl, David Levine's portraits of the artists, Mel Brooks growing up poor in Williamsburg, Mara Faye Lethem riding the Cyclone and Eli Wallach extolling the accent. Teeming with stories, characters, myth, history, photographs, street smarts and attitude, Brooklyn is a love letter to the beautiful borough.
Michael W. Robbins and Wendy Palitz are passionate Brooklynites. He is a writer and former editor of Audubon magazine, and she is a designer and was the founding are director of Brooklyn Bridge magazine.
