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StreetSmart® Brooklyn 2027 Edition maps all top attractions including museums, major architecture, hotels, theaters, shopping destinations, ferry connections and the subway system for all of Brooklyn at an immensely legible scale of 1:31,500, complete with 3-D building illustrations and ten self—guided walks through the most captivating Brooklyn neighborhoods. Clear information design allows users to read the map from three feet away and has earned VanDam maps a place in the MoMA Collection. The map is laminated, pocket size and easily fits into your pocket or purse. Dimensions: 4” x 9” closed; 9” x 24” open. Contents: Brooklyn Street map scale of 1:31,500, Downtown Brooklyn map detail scale 1:31,000, Greenpoint map detail scale: 1:31,000. StreetSmart® Brooklyn 2027 Editionis so clear and easy to understand you can navigate the borough with ease. For instance: You are looking to get from your Tribeca hotel to meet friends at Atlantic Avenue for a shopping adventure up the “Style Mile,” before seeing the Nets at Barclays Center, you are looking for the fastest subway connection from the Coney Island Beaches to DUMBO for the Brooklyn Flea, you are negotiating the shifting grids of Los Sures in Williamsburg on the way to the Brooklyn Music Hall with a glimpse of the old Domino Refinery on the East River in Grand Ferry Park,, or looking for the right uptown exit on the FDR Drive, to meet family at the Vinegar Hill House. You are savoring the spectacular views of NY Harbor and Downtown Manhattan from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and descending through Squibb Park to have rooftop gin & tonics at One Brooklyn Bridge Hotel. The map shows you the recommended and shortest route as well as the closest bathrooms. Locals identify themselves as Brooklynites not New Yorkers as Brooklyn would still be the 4th largest city in the country were it not for the Mistake, the 1898 consolidation of Brooklyn into The City of New York. StreetSmart® Brooklyn 2027 Edition includes stunning details of Downtown Brooklyn, Dumbo and Williamsburg at 1:31,000 scale at its center to make you feel you are there. Walks include an edgy “Urban Nature Trail” along Newtown Creek, the “Waterfront Park Walk,” in Industry City at the Brooklyn Army Terminal once the manufacturing hub of the US, to hiking The Coney Island Promenade with stops at Luna Park and the Cyclone before heading back up to Park Slope and its unmatched array of independent bookstores. Other hikes include aWaterfront Park in Williamsburg, the unique architecture of the Green-Wood Cemetery, the City of the Dead, as well as the Brooklyn Bridge Park walk. Two walks illustrate the best locations around DUMBO between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. The map includes transit information subway, train, and ferry services covering all of Brooklyn. All subway stops are shown by their respective line in context right on the street map as well as on an overview map so you understand the detail and the overall system. Stephan Van Dam, the map designer has lived in the City for more than 45 years and knows NYC inside out. StreetSmart® Brooklyn 2027 Edition includes a stunning dimensional detail of Downtown Brooklyn and Williamsburg/Greenport details at 1:31,500 scale at its center to help you navigate the world’s only and make you feel you in charge. Put two maps side by side and create a stunning 18” x 24” laminated wall poster. So get StreetSmart Brooklyn and become an instant Brooklynite.

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ISBN

9781932527889

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VanDam

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