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Im a Brooklyn guy, its in my bones and its there in Brooklyn. Theres a certain rhythm you get growing up there. Every Brooklyn kid has it. Always on the right 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 major thing that held everyone in Brooklyntogether: the emergence of big-time sports that happened after World War I. You could be an Irishman, an Italian, and a Jew and you could all be in Ebbets Field, sitting together, 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. Every avenue was another country. It was a rough place, to be sure. You could say the wrong thing, make the wrong turn and be rubbed or killed, and I guess I was lucky because I had a talent that enabled me to get out . . . A part of me will always be that kid shooting hoops, with a dream in my hand as much as a basketball.
Stephon Marbury, Coney Island
Both my parents were hard, hands-on workers, and that was the foundation of everything for me. Their work ethic was just over the top, and as a result of that I worked hard no matter what level job I had in the media. I was that tough Brooklyn girl pushing my way to the front, which eventually became the top. I was never afraid of hard work; I was always a go-getter, and that was something that came directly out of being born in Brooklyn. I cherish that, as I cherish my entire upbringing in Brooklyn.
Maria Bartiromo, Bay Ridge
A captivating oral portrait of Americas favorite borough, in the words of those who know Brooklyn bestMel Brooks, Spike Lee, Arthur Miller, Joan Rivers, Norman Mailer, Cousin Brucie, Maria Bartiromo, Pete Hamill, and many other current and former inhabitants.
Song of Brooklyn gathers the oral testimony of nearly one hundred Brooklynites past and present, famous and unknown, about a mythic borough that is also an indisputably real place. These witnesses speak eloquently of what it was like back then, when the Dodgers played in Ebbets Field; later, when the borough fell on hard times; and now, when it has come roaring back on the tracks of a real-estate boom, giving it celebrity chic and hipster cred. With this surprising and inspiring renaissance in full swing, the story of Brooklyn is one of the great and still ongoing chapters of the American urban experience, and Song of Brooklyn sings that tune in pitch-perfect key.
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
CONEY ISLAND
CHAPTER TWO
SHEEPSHEAD BAY
CHAPTER THREE
MUSIC
CHAPTER FOUR
DEM BUMS AND OTHER ASSORTED SPORTS
CHAPTER FIVE
THE WAY WE WEREAND WERENT
CHAPTER SIX
LITERARY BROOKLYN
CHAPTER SEVEN
THE NABES
CHAPTER EIGHT
ON THE WATERFRONT
CHAPTER NINE
WHADDYA GOT TO EAT?
CHAPTER TEN
POLITICS AND POKER
CHAPTER ELEVEN
BACK TO THE FUTURE
FOR BABY COCOA BEAR
Itd take a guy a lifetime to know Brooklyn troo an troo.
An even den, yuh wouldnt know it all.
THOMAS WOLFE, ONLY THE DEAD KNOW BROOKLYN
Stan: Thats the first mistake weve made since that guy sold us the Brooklyn Bridge.
Ollie: Buying that bridge was no mistake. Thats going to be worth a lot of money to us someday.
STAN LAUREL AND OLIVER HARDY IN THE COMEDY FEATURE WAY OUT WEST
You see, the city is fundamentally a practical, utilitarian invention, and it always was. And then suddenly you see this steel poetry sticking there and its a shock. It puts everything to shame and makes you wonder what else we could have done that was so marvelous and so unpresumptuous.
So it makes you feel that maybe you too could add something that would last and be beautiful.
ARTHUR MILLER IN KEN BURNSS DOCUMENTARY BROOKLYN BRIDGE
The Brooklyn I was born in, near the end of the nineteenth century, was still a city of churches, with their great bronze bells walloping to the faithful from early dawn, and a city of waterfront dives where the old forest of the spars of sailing ships was rapidly being replaced by funnels and the Sands Street Navy Yard already had a reputation for girl chasers.
[It was] a city of neat horse-plagued, tree-lined streets, connected by a brand-new bridge to Manhattan.
MAE WEST, GOODNESS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT
There was something about Brooklynthat was magical the open fire hydrants, the spaldeens, the double-bill movie theaters, the comic books in candy stores, the egg creams, the stickball games with a broomstick handle.
JACK NEWFIELD, SOMEBODYS GOTTA TELL IT: THE UPBEAT MEMOIR OF A WORKING- CLASS JOURNALIST
No one can hope to be elected in this state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathans Famous.
NELSON ROCKEFELLER, CAMPAIGNING FOR THE GOVERNORSHIP OF NEW YORK
Brooklyn was like a commonwealth, a colony of peoples, yet at the same time it served as a gateway.
ANDREW SARRIS
Im from Brooklyn. We talk plainly.
REVEREND AL SHARPTON, REACTING TO COMMENTS BY MEXICAN PRESIDENT VICENTE FOX
One of the longest journeys in the world is the journey from Brooklyn to Manhattanor at least from certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn to certain parts of Manhattan.
NORMAN PODHORETZ, MAKING IT
Can you tell me which is Brooklyn?
PRISCILLA LANE AS PAT MARTIN IN ALFRED HITCHCOCKS SABOTEUR
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
MAURY ALLEN: Brooklyn-born sportswriter for the New York Post and Sports Illustrated and author of several books about baseball, most focusing on the Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Grew up near Kings Highway. Attended James Madison High School.
WOODY ALLEN: Legendary stand-up comic, writer, and filmmaker. Born and raised in Midwood, Brooklyn. Combines a Manhattan-style intellect with outer-borough humor.
MARTY ASHER: Editor-in-chief of Vintage Books and the author of the novels Boomer and Shelter and the nonfiction book The 20-Minute Gardener.
MARIA BARTIROMO: Business news anchor and reporter for CNBC television, the cable-based financial-news network. Popularly known as the Money Honey. Also known as the Econo-Babe.
RALPH BEATRICE: Longtime resident of Brooklyn, owned a furniture gallery in SoHo, New York.
MIKE BERGER : Retired educator.
BRIAN BERGNER : Contemporary Brooklyn writer, co-editor with Marshall Berman of New York Calling.
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG: Mayor of the City of New York.
DEBBIE BOSWELL: Brooklyn-born writer, author of Miriams Journey.
JIMMY BRESLIN: New York journalist.
MEL BROOKS: Comic legend, writer, performer, producer, director, librettist, Broadway musical composer. Early live-TV-sketch-writing pioneer and comedy album recording artist. Born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
AL BROWN: Brooklyn-born fireman stationed in Canarsie. A survivor of the 9/11 attack.
MAHOGANY L. BROWNE: Publisher of Penmanship Books.
AMANDA M. BURDEN: Chair of the New York City Planning Commission and director of the Department of City Planning.
BRIAN BURNS: Contemporary Brooklyn writer.
DIANA CARLIN: Organizer of the No Condos in Coney event.
JOHN CHA CHA CIARCIA: Brooklyn-born Coney Island restaurateur, actor, producer, boxing promoter, radio broadcaster. Cast member of The Sopranos. Unofficial mayor of Mulberry Street in New Yorks Little Italy.
HERB COHEN: Brooklyn-born author of the best-selling You Can Negotiate Anything and other books, international crisis management consultant, raconteur. Larry Kings best friend.
CLARENCE COLLINS: Brooklyn-born founding member of Little Anthony and the Imperials.
CLEVELAND CLEVE DUNCAN: Brooklyn-born lead singer and founding member of the singing group the Penguins.
CARL ERSKINE: Legendary member of the 1955 World Championship Brooklyn Dodgers.
STEVE ETTLINGER: Popular science and popular reference writer. Lives in Brooklyn.
MICHAEL FRANK: Literary critic.
MICKEY FREEMAN: Actor, comedian; best known for his portrayal of Zimmerman in the 1950s TV sitcom Sergeant Bilko and his classic Catskill comic routines.
DARCY FREY: Author of The Last Shot, contributing editor at Harpers magazine and the New York Times Magazine.
BOB GANS: Brooklyn-born entrepreneur.
BRIAN GARI: Singer, songwriter, nightclub entertainer, and MC. Grandson of entertainer Eddie Cantor.
JOEY GAY: One of the present-day owners of the popular Sheepshead Bay comedy club Pips.
RUDY GIULIANI: Brooklyn-born Rudolph Giuliani is a lawyer, former district attorney, politician, and businessman. He was the mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001.
HOWARD GOLDEN: Brooklyn borough president, 19772001.
DANIEL GOLDMAN: Spokesman for Develop Dont Destroy Brooklyn, a coalition opposed to the Atlantic Yards development project.
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