The voices of Brooklyn:
“I’m a Brooklyn guy, it is in my bones and it is there in Brooklyn. There is a particular rhythm you get growing up there. Every Brooklyn kid has it. Often on the appropriate beat. The Bronx, no Queens, you were out of it but Brooklyn, that was it.”
—Mel Brooks, Williamsburg
“Everyone got along because we had one particular significant thing that held absolutely everyone in Brooklyn…together: the emergence of huge-time sports that happened right after Planet War I. You could be an Irishman, an Italian, and a Jew and you could all be in Ebbets Field, sitting with each other, rooting for the Dodgers.” —Pete Hamill, Park Slope
“I never really saw anyplace in the world as a kid except Brooklyn, so to me Brooklyn was the world. Each avenue was one more nation. It was a rough spot, to be certain. You could say the incorrect point, make the incorrect turn and be rubbed or killed, and I guess I was fortunate due to the fact I had a talent that enabled me to get out . . . A component of me will often be that kid shooting hoops, with a dream in my hand as significantly as a basketball.”
—Stephon Marbury, Coney Island
“Both my parents have been challenging, hands-on workers, and that was the foundation of every thing for me. Their function ethic was just above the top rated, and as a result of that I worked challenging no matter what degree occupation I had in the media. I was that difficult Brooklyn girl pushing my way to the front, which ultimately became the best. I was by no means afraid of hard operate I was constantly a go-getter, and that was some thing that came right out of becoming born in Brooklyn. I cherish that, as I cherish my total upbringing in Brooklyn.”
—Maria Bartiromo, Bay Ridge
A captivating oral portrait of America’s favorite borough, in the words of people who know Brooklyn best—Mel Brooks, Spike Lee, Arthur Miller, Joan Rivers, Norman Mailer, Cousin Brucie, Maria Bartiromo, Pete Hamill, and many other latest and former inhabitants.
Song of Brooklyn gathers the oral testimony of practically a single hundred Brooklynites previous and present, renowned and unknown, about a mythic borough that is also an indisputably genuine location. These witnesses speak eloquently of what it was like back then, when the Dodgers played in Ebbets Field later on, when the borough fell on challenging occasions and now, when it has come roaring back on the tracks of a true-estate boom, providing it celebrity chic and hipster cred. With this surprising and inspiring renaissance in total swing, the story of Brooklyn is 1 of the fantastic and even now ongoing chapters of the American urban knowledge, and Song of Brooklyn sings that tune in pitch-perfect key.
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