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BKLYN 2016 Bike the Branches - Southwest Brooklyn

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Bay Ridge
Peter Scarpa and Lawrence Stelter for the Bay Ridge Historical Society.
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Historical photographs show a century of growth and change in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

The bridge
Gay Talese.
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A detailed history of the construction of the longest suspension bridge in the United States, linking Brooklyn and Staten Island, features photos and architectural drawings while detailing all the drama and political maneuvering.

Sunset Park
photographs by Thomas Roma.
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Photographs of people at Brooklyn's Sunset Park are accompanied by an interview with the artist about his work.

Sunset Park
Paul Auster.
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In this novel, a New York native flees to Brooklyn and shacks up with a group of artists squatting in the borough's Sunset Park neighborhood.

Rizzo's fire
Lou Manfredo.
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In this novel, NYPD veteran Joe Rizzo faces the most baffling case of his career when he investigates a murder in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

A fine place
by Nicholas Montemarano.
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After serving time for an infamous crime, a young man returns to the Italian-American community of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

Sima's undergarmets for women
Ilana Stanger-Ross.
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In Brooklyn's Borough Park, Sima Goldner runs a bra shop from her basement while tolerating her oafish husband, Lev, who lords over the upstairs. But when young and beautiful Israeli expatriate Timna takes the gig as the shop's seamstress, Sima confronts some long-hidden feelings, fears and impulses, and her formerly small life opens up.

Invisible City
Julia Dahl.
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For 23-year-old Rebekah Roberts, a stringer for the New York Tribune, a story becomes uncomfortably personal as she seeks to get at the truth. The discovery of the naked body of Hasidic Jew Rivka Mendelssohn, found in a scrap yard owned by her well-to-do husband, brings to mind the anger and sorrow Rebekah feels toward her own mother, a Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn who took off when Rebekah was an infant.

Hush
Eishes Chayil.
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Spurred by tragedy, a 17-year-old girl is determined to raise awareness of sexual abuse in her Borough Park, Brooklyn, community, despite the rules of Chassidim that require her to be silent.