For the first time in book form—a great writer’s classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn.


Propulsive, lyrical, jazzy, and tender, its pitch-perfect descriptions endure even as Brooklyn changes; Agee’s essay is a New York classic. Resonant with the rhythms of Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, and Thomas Wolfe, it takes its place alongside Alfred Kazin’s "A Walker in the City" as a great writer’s love-song to Brooklyn and alongside E. B. White’s "Here Is New York" as an essential statement of the place so many call home.