Seth Kamil and Eric Wakin are, respectively, the president and chief tour guide of the largest and best-known walking tour company in the United States-Big Onion Walking Tours. They are also the authors of The Big Onion Guide to New York City: Ten Historic Tours, also published by NYU Press. Both live in Brooklyn, NY.Eric Wakin is Chief Tour Guide. Their company conducts more than 1,200 tours of New York City for more than 35,000 people each year. They are both in the Ph.D. program in history at Columbia.

• Foreword by Kevin Baker IntroductionDowntown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights: Manhattan's "Nearest Country Retreat" Fort Greene and Clinton Hill: From Revolutionary War to Cultural Center Bedford-Stuyvesant: "In Those High Rooms Life Soared and Ebbed" Williamsburg: A "Polyglot Population" Greenpoint: American Warsaw Park Slope: "A Land of Terra Cotta and Red Brick" Prospect Park: "Landscape Painted by a Skilled Hand" Green-Wood Cemetery: Brooklyn's Great Victorian Legacy =Sunset Park: "How Sweet It Is!" Coney Island: The "Nickel Empire" Sources About the Contributors Index About Big Onion Walking Tours

"Well researched"--Library Journal Praise for The Big Onion Guide to New York City:"One could scarcely find a more informative and engaging guide than this book... It is a delight, deeply knowledgeable, presented with wit and style. Would that more historians engage the public so well." --New York History"A wondeful little guide probing many historic neighborhoods and buildings." --The Bookwatch"A nice mix of the fun and the factual." --Block Magazine "The founders of the acclaimed Big Onion Walking Tours outline 10 historical walks in their home borough, from America's first pencil factory to Bedford-Stuyvesant's beautiful row houses to Coney Island."--San Francisco Chronicle.