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From Paris to Rio, everyone s curious about hot, new Brooklyn. "The Brooklyn Experience, " Ellen Freudenheim s fourth comprehensive Brooklyn guidebook, offers a true insider s guide, complete with photographs, itineraries, and insights into one of the most creative, dynamic cities in the modern world. Walk over the Brooklyn Bridge at dawn or sunset, discover thirty-eight unique Brooklyn neighborhoods, and experience the borough like a native. Find out where to go to the beach and to eat great pizza, what to do with the kids, how to enjoy free and cheap activities, and where to savor Brooklyn s famous cuisines. Visit cool independent shops, greenmarkets, festivals, and delve into the vibrant new cultural scene at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Barclays Center, and the lively exploding neighborhoods of DUMBO, Williamsburg, and Bushwick. Included in the book are essays and the pithy, sometimes funny comments of sixty cultural, literary, and culinary movers and shakers, culled from exclusive interviews with experts from the James Beard Foundation to the cofounder of the famous Brooklyn Book Festival, as well as MacArthur genius award winners, to young entrepreneurs, hipsters, and activists, all of whom have something to say about Brooklyn s stunning renaissance. Neighborhood profiles are rich in user-friendly information and details, including movies, celebrities, and novels associated with each neighborhood. There are also 800 listings of great restaurants, bars, shops, parks, cultural institutions, and historical sites, complete with contact information. Targeting the independent, curious traveler, "The Brooklyn Experience" includes a dozen do-it-yourself tours, including a visit to Woody Allen s childhood neighborhood, and amazing Revolutionary and Civil War sites. Freudenheim draws clear and sometimes surprising connections between old and new Brooklyn. Written by an author with an astounding knowledge of all Brooklyn has to offer, "The Brooklyn Experience" will guide both first-time and repeat visitors, and will be a fun resource for Brooklynites who enjoy exploring their own hometown. "



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Ellen Freudenheim

Announcing the publication of "THE BROOKLYN EXPERIENCE: The Ultimate Guide to Neighborhoods & Noshes, Culture & the Cutting Edge."

This is my 4th authoritative, fun guide to amazing Brooklyn. (For my former readers, this is 99% NEW material!)

This version covers a lot more history, connecting old and new Brooklyn. It takes you to dozens of neighborhoods, and includes snippets of interviews with five dozen movers and shakers--all with opinions! My first Brooklyn guide was a celebration of ethnic authenticity. This book details how the vibrant mix up of diverse cultures and creative economy has launched the unexpected, pretty extraordinary cultural, culinary and artistic come-back of the Big Apple's most beloved borough.

See a nice little video about Brooklyn (and me) on You Tube: https://youtu.be/NxOXc4jgFG0!

You'll find restaurant tips, fun things to do with kids, a list of festivals and freebies, and DIY walking tours for the indie traveler. And yes, you'll also hear from community activists working on housing, environmental issues and social justice--all part of the fabric of the borough.

Partial proceeds from the sale of this book have been shared with two local nonprofits, the Brooklyn Children's Museum and Groundswell.

"The Brooklyn Experience" was written for a range of readers: the first time visitor, Manhattanites exploring the city, Brooklynites who want to learn more about what's happening in Brooklyn, and armchair visitors--including the millions of Brooklyn expats who want to know how Brooklyn became the hottest micro-city in the nation!

As for the author, I've got a couple of degrees, a zig-zag career, a number of nonfiction books under my belt, and Brooklyn expert creds up the wazoo, with about 1000 articles about Brooklyn online and three former guidebooks to the borough. Probably my most popular Brooklyn article online? It's "How to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge!" Seriously.

Brooklyn keeps morphing. I've chronicled the Brooklyn's evolution over 20 years, including in the award-winning "Brooklyn: The Ultimate Guide to New York's Most Happening Borough," published by St. Martin's Press.(That Society of American Travel Writers award was accompanied by the comment, "a comprehensive guidebook to an underrated destination..." Ha! Underrated no more!)

My first book about Brooklyn, coauthored with my husband, was the first commercially published guide to Brooklyn for over a half-century, since the end of WWII.

Like lots of folks, I've seen neighborhoods get reborn, watched as the Brooklyn Bridge became a must-see for tourists across the world, and celebrated Brooklyn's re-emergence as a dynamic, diverse, dynamite place to visit, work, live, eat, and raise a family. Come, eat, bike, ride the subways and r



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