It Happened in Brooklyn: An Oral History of Growing Up in the Borough in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s by Harvey Frommer, Myrna Katz Frommer

It Happened in Brooklyn: An Oral History of Growing Up in the Borough in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s

Harvey Frommer, Myrna Katz Frommer

272 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
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Mid-century Brooklyn was the home of the Dodgers, stoop-ball and stick-ball, a booming Coney Island amusement scene, and some of the best high schools in America. It also had a more somber side: gangs, red-lining, and block-busting. In this spirit...

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