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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.
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Photographs of people at Brooklyn's Sunset Park are accompanied by an interview with the artist about his work.
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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.
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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.
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After serving time for an infamous crime, a young man returns to the Italian-American community of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
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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.
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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.