The Brooklyn Wars

by Neil deMause

Overview

Across the globe, the word "Brooklyn" has come to represent cutting-edge cuisine, a vibrant music and literary culture, and the epitome of hip. But most of the world doesn't see the price that local residents pay as their neighborhoods are swallowed by change.

In The Brooklyn Wars, masterful storyteller and award-winning journalist Neil deMause turns a spotlight on the borough's transformation. Through the stories of neighborhoods from Coney Island to Bushwick to downtown and Atlantic Yards, The Brooklyn Wars investigates how the New Brooklyn came to be, who shaped it -- and the winners and losers when "urban renaissance" comes to town.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157101527
Publisher:	Second System Press
Publication date:	09/25/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	282
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Neil deMause is a native New Yorker and adoptive Brooklynite who writes regularly for the Village Voice, City Limits, Vice Sports, and numerous other publications; you can find links to his latest writing on his website at demause.net. He previously co-authored Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money Into Private Profit with Joanna Cagan, and maintains the fieldofschemes.com stadium news website.

Editorial Reviews

A great read, impeccably researched. This is essential reading for anybody who witnessed the mind-blowing transformation of Brooklyn over the past 20 years and hungers to understand what actually happened.

Kelly Anderson

A teeth-gnashing account of how the Big Money boys teamed up with City Hall pols to grab everything from Coney Island's Thunderbolt to once–working class neighborhoods of downtown Brooklyn in the name of progress.

Tom Robbins

The Brooklyn Wars recovers the great Brooklyn virtue of telling it like it is. Neil deMause writes with the street-savvy common sense Brooklyn was known for before it became a 'brand.'

Paul Moses

Expertly recounts the meteoric transition of New York's most famous borough in true stories that read like gripping fiction.

Amy Nicholson