The Queens Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide

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The only neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to New York City's largest borough, from the award-winning author of The New York Nobody Knows Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City-some six-thousand miles-to write the award-winning The New York Nobody Knows. Later, he re-walked most of Queens-1,012 miles in all-to create this one-of-a-k

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"[William Helmreich] paints a vibrant portrait of a place constantly on the go yet at a far less hectic pace than Manhattanand with better pizza, too. . . . New York fans will devour Helmreichs genial, rich, and constantly illuminating travelogue." * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *
"First-rate. . . . a superlative gift idea (perhaps as part of a set, along with the authors earlier walking books) for anyone, walker or not, with an ardor for New York, including armchair adventurers who simply enjoy learning about complex urban societies."---Mark Orwoll, East-West News Service

Author Bio

William B. Helmreich (19452020) was the author of many books, including The Manhattan Nobody Knows, The Brooklyn Nobody Knows, and The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City, which won the Guides Association of New York Award for Outstanding Achievement in Book Writing. He was Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the City College of New York's Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and at CUNY Graduate Center.