| 单词 | Brooklyn |
| 例句 | When they sailed along the sidewalks of Brooklyn lesser creatures stepped aside, respect was shown. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z All over Brooklyn, folks were heading out to their stoops and strolling the avenues to take in another warm New York night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The morning after the two-day American Equal Rights Association meeting adjourned, Stanton and Anthony called friends of women’s suffrage to a follow-up meeting at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z There were three dragons when I left Brooklyn, but there are only two in Ma’s hand now! Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z She had a wonderful memory of journeying to a strange part of Brooklyn to see the great Sarah Bernhardt in a one-act play in a Keith vaudeville house. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard and saw the sturdy old El, the train shooting across Brooklyn. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z We loved staying in his house in Brooklyn. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When you’re lost in Brooklyn, the next corner store should only be a block or two in any direction, and they’d always be able to point the way to a nearby train. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Inside was like being somewhere far away from Brooklyn. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Jack Collins, one of the great teachers of chess, lived with his sister Ethel in Brooklyn and was host to a chess salon in his apartment called the Hawthorne Chess Club, which met there regularly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Little girls learned them from other little girls and it was the most frequently played game in Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Fred and Cha-Cha, the second audition winner, rode with Jenny and Abby to an apartment in Brooklyn that the Washington! producers had rented for their canine cast. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Each day he crossed the great Williamsburg Bridge and went into the strange big city while Francie walked to her work on the north side of Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s city pools in Brooklyn. But I’ve never been,” Jay says wearily. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z My path was the romp of the Brooklyn Dodgers through the National League. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She and her brother, Neeley, like other Brooklyn kids, collected rags, paper, metal, rubber, and other junk and hoarded it in locked cellar bins or in boxes hidden under the bed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The other kids came from all over the city, some from as far away as Brooklyn. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z An elegant dome punctuated the cluster of official-looking buildings in downtown Brooklyn, and there was the wide stretch of Flatbush Avenue that ran from the ferry terminal up to the top of Dactyl Hill. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It was six in the morning of my first day in Brooklyn. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It’s only a minute before we’re sitting right at the top of the Brooklyn Bridge watching the traffic stall below. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Oh, what a wonderful day was Saturday in Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He mounted his horse, whirled around, and galloped back to Brooklyn, followed by his warriors. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z We went up the oil-slicked East River, under the Brooklyn Bridge and along the east side of Manhattan. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z My roommate was from Brooklyn, and we were the only two New Yorkers in the entire unit. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z On the other hand, he had never been in the States, and even Brooklyn would provide a base from which he could visit more agreeable regions. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He was just gettin’ out of Brooklyn Law School back then. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “Like this one time, we riding through Arizona on a five-day delivery. I think it was August—the heat was kicking something terrible. Brooklyn summer ain’t got nothing on Arizona.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Isn’t it enough that we dragged him all the way from Brooklyn to Belfast to Dublin to Limerick? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z This part of D.C. is kind of like Brooklyn, but not Bushwick or Bed-Stuy, where everything looks old, used, and tired. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The radio was sputtering and then we could hear the announcer explain about a man named Jackie Robinson—one of our folk playing with the Brooklyn Dodgers. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Across the river, in Brooklyn, big puffs of gray smoke rose up from a hilltop. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “Brooklyn. Alabama. You still have to carry yourself just to get by.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Some guy, convinced the Big Rain had made him invincible, had dived off the Brooklyn Bridge to prove it. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z We drove them back toward the Brooklyn side of the bridge. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Brooklyn doesn’t do oceans, just sidewalks, buildings, and boring rivers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z But I think if I leave Brooklyn Collective Elementary, I will always be friends with Ben and Sabeen. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Then came that terrible day with the phone ringing endlessly, the police showing up at the door, Sierra’s parents hurrying their shoes on and rushing out to Brooklyn Hospital, where Lázaro lay comatose. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z My mother and father had met when they were both at Brooklyn College. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The British had set up a new camp in Brooklyn on Long Island, and Washington was moving his troops around like pieces on a checkerboard. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Vega had a older sister, who was at Brooklyn College. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Or even back in Brooklyn, how Ernie always took up for Genie, fought his fights. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z This park, or promenade, is right along the river separating Brooklyn from Manhattan. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Could this precocious Brooklyn boy not just become a Candidate but possibly win the tournament? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Like Francie, he had brought his lunch the first day but the boys made fun of him, calling him the country boy from Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At times I would try to join in, chiming in about the “vacation home” my family had in Brooklyn, not realizing how ridiculous I sounded. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z We would have been the grand Negro spectacle that Big Ma had scolded us against becoming when we were back in Brooklyn. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The best of times were snappy autumn afternoons when we'd finished moving a two-bedroom customer from Manhattan to some faraway neighborhood in Brooklyn or Queens. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z When the game concluded, Nigro approached Regina and Bobby and introduced himself as the newly elected president of the Brooklyn Chess Club. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “If your family member is missing from Brooklyn or Staten Island, press one. If she is missing from Manhattan, the Bronx, or Queens, press two.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z It thundered out across the Brooklyn skyline, making Manhattan pause and wonder what was going on over there. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z And when she wasn’t with us in Brooklyn she had Ma Charles, Uncle Darnell, and the Lord. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Would I lecture to this social action group he was going to form somewhere in Brooklyn Heights? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But I know a lot of Brooklyn dudes my age who ain't never even been across the bridge. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z She wants that room on Hartstonge Street, a nice warm comfortable room with a lavatory down the hall like the one in Brooklyn, a room without fleas and the dampness that kills. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z There were two kinds of Puerto Ricans in school: the newly arrived, like myself, and the ones born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z We walk through the park, and I quickly realize why this is his favorite spot in Brooklyn. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He had left religion behind back in Brooklyn, or maybe even before that, back in the old country, but some things were inexcusable. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A woman couldn’t vote in those days but the politicians knew that the women of Brooklyn had a great influence on their men. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ll get up and bike to the Brooklyn Bridge and throw myself off it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Or maybe it was because he knew that shoestrings as jewelry would never fly back home in Brooklyn. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z We didn’t see many hippies in Brooklyn, not where we lived; and there was a whole tribe of them before us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, who lives in houses anymore? It’s Brooklyn...,” she says. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Gradually, Bobby’s performance at the Brooklyn Chess Club began to improve. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Sierra’s phone buzzed as she watched Manny rush off into the Brooklyn night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z After we came to Brooklyn, all our time was spent indoors. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There aren’t many places in Brooklyn my family and I have ventured into. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z However much he loved us, he couldn’t live with the madness in our Queens home, preferring to keep his old digs at 478 Carlton Avenue in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Frank looked up and spoke to them in a gentle Brooklyn voice. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t as if we’d had a lot to do down in Alabama, but being down there was nothing like being in Brooklyn. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The landlord would have to give them thirty days to get out—at least that’s how it was in Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A fresh breeze blew in over Brooklyn from the sea. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Nate and the men were sent to Fort Greene, one of the six Brooklyn forts. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z After Bobby’s three-week adventure, returning to Brooklyn and to school was anticlimactic. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The trophy was quite large and heavy, yet he insisted on carrying it back to Brooklyn rather than have it shipped. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “It is a compliment, Shirley. Jackie Robinson is a big hero, especially in Brooklyn, because he plays for the Dodgers.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Puma was a guard himself, and a former Teamster, from Brooklyn. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They could not relax until Red Barber announced a Brooklyn victory. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z She had a 4:00 p.m. appointment in Brooklyn for her knee. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z "We would have been here earlier, but Penn Station's shut down because of a water-main break. And they've closed the Brooklyn Bridge because of some cracks in one of the towers." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Attending the Brooklyn public schools was also problematic. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z When they got to the Brooklyn side, she said that he was not to take her the rest of the way home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If successfully erected, George B. Post’s Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building would be the largest building ever constructed and consume enough steel to build two Brooklyn Bridges. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They would have preferred the sorts of venues their American friends choose, the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens or the Metropolitan Club or the Boat House in Central Park. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There’s someone on the top deck with a pair of binoculars aimed at Brooklyn. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you takin’ this back to Brooklyn with you? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z When he casually tells the newspapers that ‘it’s getting wild out there in Queens and Brooklyn,’ let’s not simply nod and agree. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t as if we were in Brooklyn, where the candy store, the record shop, and my best friend were around the corner. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z A report by The New York Times found that the highest concentration of stops in the city was a roughly eight-block area of Brownsville, Brooklyn, that was predominately black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She had wanted to go to Columbia in New York or Adelphi in Brooklyn, but Ben said that part of education was adapting oneself to a new environment. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Francie roamed the Brooklyn streets in the lovely nights of fall and thought of Ben. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If someone spun me around a hundred times and drove me all over Brooklyn, then walked me blindfolded back into Holly’s house, I would know it. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Let the wind blow warm, let the days be heat hazy; nevertheless autumn had come to Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At least Jimmy is Irish, not born in Brooklyn like your Tommy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It's interesting how when you live in Brooklyn, you typically just stay in your own hood, unless you're going into Manhattan. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z From the front, Brooklyn Collective Elementary is plain, all concrete. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z The only difference was that the head of the classroom wasn’t a woman in snappy, mod clothing but a short man in a dark suit who wasn’t from Brooklyn. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He spoke with an accent, and his family connections consisted, principally, of being the son of Solomon and Yetta Bickel of Bucharest, Romania, by way, most recently, of Brooklyn. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Whenever he returned to Brooklyn to prepare for the next tournament or match, he tended to sequester himself in his apartment. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He dropped a nickel in a telescope for a better view of the Brooklyn Bridge, then swept across Lower Manhattan and out to the distant Statue of Liberty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z My mother stayed behind in Brooklyn, promising to join him a few weeks later. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Another counter-intuitive problem involving seemingly disproportionate probabilities concerns a New York City man who has a woman friend in the Bronx and one in Brooklyn. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We had electrical storms in Brooklyn but nothing to confirm God’s anger. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z As we headed through Brooklyn, I used Annabeth’s phone to call my mom. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Our meeting was awkward, as she knew I had been living in Brooklyn and had not wanted to see her. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z When seven-year-old Bobby, accompanied by his mother, walked into the Brooklyn Chess Club for the first time on a Friday night in January 1951, he was an anomaly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He got his law degree and set up a practice on Court Street in downtown Brooklyn. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “It’s just history. Or don’t they teach that in Brooklyn?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “But pigeons are mostly what we have in Brooklyn.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I’m really dumb—all I know is Brooklyn. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z He had written to me about how it rained off and on in Vietnam, but Vietnam rain couldn’t top Brooklyn chill in early October. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The huge dinosaur couldn’t cross the river with them—it would be too conspicuous to ride around Brooklyn—and there was no way to go back into that nightmare. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It was a standard sheet, apparently, that they gave all the new recruits at the Anthem Mental Health Center, the building in downtown Brooklyn where this brain evaluation was taking place. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The Earth, which includes Brooklyn, is a planet, and it goes around the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The grandmother, as it turned out, lived in New York City, in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and had been searching for her daughter for three and a half years, exactly Sergio’s age. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z I had always thought that he had left it behind back in Brooklyn. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Instead of driving the Buick Wildcat from Brooklyn to the Port Authority in Manhattan, Pa drove us down to Newark, New Jersey, to catch the Greyhound. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Dogs left outside in Brooklyn ended up in the pound! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Middle of the day, I think, nobody wants to go to Brooklyn. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z The first time she took the subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan, her palms sweaty, she walked the streets, watching, absorbing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I took a long walk from here to the Brooklyn Bridge, because that's how I deal with stuff. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She was no longer able to go about Brooklyn alone. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At the last minute, I go more mature and buy her a blank card with the Brooklyn Bridge on the cover. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Beer flowed like a Brooklyn gutter after a rainstorm. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I believe in johnny pumps and jump ropes, Malcolm and Martin, Buckeyes and Birmingham, writing and listening, bad words and good words— I believe in Brooklyn! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z The British thrashed the Patriots in a big battle in Brooklyn. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Now just about half a mile of open fields stood between him and his fort on Brooklyn Heights. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z You could follow a sack from a farm in Iowa to the mill in Manhattan, where it was ground into meal, or to the dairy in Brooklyn, where it was fed to a cow. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “I know stuff. Brooklyn Collective has good teachers.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Then, at about four o’clock, we would take the trolley together to the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital and visit my father. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Don Julio had told me that if students didn’t speak English, the schools in Brooklyn would keep them back one grade until they learned it. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Pa planted a kiss on Big Ma’s cheek like he hadn’t driven all the way from Brooklyn with her earlier. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Only in a great sprawling place like Brooklyn could there be such a sharp division. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The guardhouse shudders and then shoots upward and takes us back to Brooklyn. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z I mean, it’s a Brooklyn rooftop in August. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z We would pay the mortgage, and your father could stop driving that taxicab all over Brooklyn. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z With heavy hearts, Nigro and Bobby rode the subway home to Brooklyn. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Malloy himself told me that he had never really even been out of Brooklyn except for the time he spent in the service. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z You think you were going to wake up at three in the morning and throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge without staying up all night? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The walnut cabinet made the television look like furniture that blended in with the living room set and reminded me of ours back in Brooklyn. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “Not that much. Mom won’t let me ride it to school. But I ride around Brooklyn on weekends.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The sky had brightened ever so slightly in the east, but Brooklyn itself was still a dim, gaslight-speckled shadow world. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z They walked up and down the block, arms about each other’s waists, the way girl friends did in Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But in Brooklyn bad things happened on our block. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z We said we would write to each other, but I didn’t give him my address in Brooklyn and I forgot to get his address in Oakland. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “So...where have you been? I mean, Mama never told me I had a grandfather living in Brooklyn.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z I never even knew I had a grandmother living in Brooklyn. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z After the customary period of quarantine, they were permitted to leave the island, and Jewish welfare workers helped them settle in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Michaels had grown up in Brooklyn and, more than most officers from the city, considered the inmates to be basically decent guys, his “homies.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Amsterdam News assessed the chances of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Lourdes turns and strides past Brooklyn’s sooty town hall, past the state supreme court, where the Son of Sam trial will take place. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My name was my own, and I couldn’t imagine that anyone else had it in all of Brooklyn. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Several nights passed, and Brooklyn stayed mostly quiet. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z When we emerge from the tunnel the first thing I see is the Brooklyn Bridge. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “Well, the worst wrong turn was into a Cyclops’s lair in Brooklyn.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z For $365 a month, she rented a room in a friend’s Brooklyn apartment on a street lined with aluminum-sided row houses and American flags. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We were already out of Brooklyn, heading through the middle of Long Island. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Across from the Taino, a Zulu warrior—looking guy stood at attention, surrounded by the lights of Brooklyn. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I hadn’t heard anything about the situation in Brooklyn, which tended to make me think it had fallen through. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Trub’s hands rest lightly on my shoulders, and I keep my knees loose so that I bounce like when I’m riding the bus in Brooklyn. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “Bring your campers forward to this position and wait for my signal. Were going to drive the enemy back to Brooklyn.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “The queen of your house, this block, Bed-Stuy—hell, Daisy, you the queen of all of Brooklyn!” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z They take off in a V and I turn tail without looking back, back through the woods and the Pepsi-Cola sign, past the Brooklyn Bridge to my porch. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z He’d lived in a boardinghouse on Brooklyn Avenue and taken, at first, history classes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Only a few hundred people lived in Brooklyn, and most had fled. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z But after a while of marriage, she turned into a stout blowsy woman, known in Brooklyn as “the saloon type.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Wilson chose the Brooklyn Hospital Center over Wood- hull Medical and Mental Health Center, the city-run hospital that serves three of Brooklyn’s poorest neighborhoods. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The first day Francie worked at the Bureau one of the sisters said to her, “You have a Brooklyn accent.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hoped it was the Brooklyn Bridge. I thought that if I ever got to New York, I’d like to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But Brooklyn’s small when you think about it, right? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z In my first year at Stuyvesant I invested all my hopes and dreams in the Brooklyn Dodgers. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z A “Missing” sign with her picture was taped to a pole in Brooklyn, New York, asking for help finding her. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z And we can get those hats in Brooklyn, son. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But I bet on Brooklyn streets, no one would notice. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Subway to Brooklyn Bridge, got out and started to walk across. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She goes to the door to see if Dad is coming down the lane and she talks about the paydays when we searched for him all over Brooklyn. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z A week after he returned from Canada in August, Bobby bought a ticket to a night baseball game at Ebbets Field to see his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers play the Milwaukee Braves. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She puts the twins into the pram and off we go through the long streets of Brooklyn. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z One of the Eiffel Tower, the other the Brooklyn Bridge. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Three years later the rabbi married once again, and in 1929, two days before the stock market crash, Danny was born in the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I had corresponded with Papi for the first few weeks after our arrival in Brooklyn. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Now, besides wanting to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, have you had anything else going on? Have you been seeing things? Hearing things?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “I saw them at the Brooklyn docks, they were chained up...” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Then in 1969 he got a letter from the city of New York telling him to move out of his house in Brooklyn. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In the fall of 1950, Regina moved the family out of Manhattan and across the bridge to Brooklyn, where she rented an inexpensive apartment near the intersection of Union and Franklin streets. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Genie thought for a moment but couldn’t come up with any stories, at least not about Brooklyn. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He showed them a map of Brooklyn and pointed out the six American forts. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z But since this is Brooklyn, and I’m Matty Miller, of course my quiet walk was interrupted before I even got to the end of the block. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Mam tells them a cousin gave her that coat in Brooklyn, that her husband has no work, that she has other children at home, twin boys. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Only the leaves, shined to a tender green, gave a clue to the shower that had passed over Brooklyn. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Lourdes buys a round box of sticky dates and considers the centuries of fratricide converging on this street comer in Brooklyn. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He slides a postcard of the Brooklyn Bridge out the spinner. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Here in Brooklyn ‘stood’ is like the past tense of ‘stay.’ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hey, it’s Sierra. Sierra Santiago, from Brooklyn? Is this a bad time?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z We could have been twenty miles off the Brooklyn coast for all we knew, or twenty from Boston, or two hundred from nowhere. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The restaurant we were at was one of the ones in Brooklyn that was featured in a Times article I had yet to read for current events. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “And we’ve been to Brooklyn to see the roses at the Botanic Garden.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “We drove down to chill with Georgia for a few days, and I was thinking of driving back up tonight. When are you heading back to Brooklyn?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z But here, at MoMo's house, one of the most popular parties in Brooklyn, silence. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “Then you closed the door and the transporter took me back to Brooklyn.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z But hey, the Brooklyn Bridge might be here for eight hundred years. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z We get off at Bedford Avenue on the L train, and even though I rep Brooklyn all day, every day, I still never have been to Williamsburg. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He often stayed overnight in the Fischer apartment in Brooklyn and later was Bobby’s houseguest when Fischer lived in California. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Six months after we landed in Brooklyn, I spoke enough English to explain our situation. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I thought the very point of New York was that there was no homework, only dangerous subway rides and Brooklyn Bridges and giant-size Applebee’s. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I’d been there once when I was a kid, before we settled in Brooklyn. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But to Shirley, at this moment, he was the handsomest boy in all of Brooklyn. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z There was the Brooklyn Bridge further away like an echo of the nearer bridge. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Next came a proposal for a $2 million “Bobby Fischer Museum,” to be housed in Iceland—or maybe it should be Brooklyn, the promoters mused. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, his trauma followed him home to Brooklyn, New York, where he had nightmares, suffered disabling headaches, and sometimes ran out of his house screaming “Incoming!” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He got off the boardwalk, and limped along the strange Brooklyn streets. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Levi Saunders was discharged from the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital the following Wednesday afternoon. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The song makes me think of Greenville and Brooklyn the two worlds my heart lives in now. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Maybe people voted in other parts of the country too, but it couldn’t be the way it was in Brooklyn, thought Francie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In this part of Brooklyn, with its giant oak trees and multimillion-dollar brownstones, police and ambulance sirens mean that something really did go down. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Mr. Lucas had always treated Big Ma’s mother, Ma Charles, like she was his mother, and took care of things for our great-grandmother, especially when Big Ma had come to stay with us in Brooklyn. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z When I was little, I lived in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn in the City of New York. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There were volumes of Afrocentric history like the ones that are sold on the sidewalk in downtown Brooklyn, social science primers, and an academic survey of perceptions of race over the years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “All I know is Brooklyn. Wish I could go everywhere,” I say wistfully, looking at Ben’s drawings. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z We are back in Brooklyn, safe and sound. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Francis was in Manhattan the whole summer that I was in Brooklyn. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I just threw the bottle away and said Okay, if I ever feel bad again, I’ll remember how good I felt that night on the Brooklyn Bridge. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The Americans had built ten big forts on Manhattan Island, and six more across the river in Brooklyn. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z He collapsed at a Jewish National Fund meeting and was rushed to the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital by ambulance. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The buildings were higher and the crowds thicker; otherwise it was little different from Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Welles cues music again as the program supposedly switches to Brooklyn’s Hotel Martinet. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z A reflection of his increasing stature was an offer received early in the fall to join David Harker in Brooklyn for a year. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z She was his match: a child of spirit just like him, a fellow traveler in this mystical Brooklyn labyrinth. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Most children brought up in Brooklyn before the First World War remember Thanksgiving Day there with a peculiar tenderness. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a beautiful Brooklyn summer evening, the hydrant spraying water all over everything, the sidewalk, the cars, the kids. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Genie had never seen the birds in Brooklyn pecking at plants, but that was probably because he never really saw plants in Brooklyn. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “I can come pick you up. Take a long drive through Brooklyn. From Canarsie all the way to Brooklyn Heights.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Then, two by two, the Dactyl Hill Squad hopped on dactylback and swooped out into the sky over Brooklyn. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Finally, Trub clears his throat and says, “I’ll take the boy back to Brooklyn, Ma. We can pick up the last dragon and come straight back here.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Most of the American army had managed to survive the Battle of Brooklyn. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z There are definitely parts that are not hood, like Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, but all kinds of people walk through here for whatever reason. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Not in this kitchen, but in the kitchen in Brooklyn. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In late July, Gold arrived at the Bell Cinema in Brooklyn for a meeting with Fuchs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s color in his cheeks and lips, the glow of Brooklyn summertime warmth that his English blood isn’t accustomed to. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Jule got out of the subway in a dodgy Brooklyn neighborhood. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z In Brooklyn there are no more calls from Ohio. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z We did not stay in the small apartment my mother found on Bristol Street, Brownsville, Brooklyn, USA. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Was this the same Bobby Fischer who supposedly knew only chess, the sullen high school dropout from Brooklyn? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She decided to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The developers built the outer structure quickly and then left it, abandoned and unfinished, its unpaned windows staring emptily out into the Brooklyn skies. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He and his wife had split up around the time Eric and I did, but he had consoled himself by buying and renovating a wreck of a town house in Brooklyn. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z These blocks might have been long like the blocks on Herkimer Street, but we were far from Brooklyn. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z One of my internships was at The Phoenix, a weekly newspaper run out of a dingy storefront on Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the old Ex-Lax factory. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a cool September day when I walked out of a Brooklyn courtroom holding my naturalization certificate. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z She was the only Brooklyn girl in the Bureau. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z To the east lie the flatlands of Brooklyn and an expressway to Queens. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A Tree Grows in Brooklyn gave me the idea. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z That was when Big Ma lived with us in Brooklyn on Herkimer Street. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z She seemed to be the only lonely one in Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wait, oh my God, this means the one in Brooklyn too? Right?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Sick of what he and all these other Brooklyn teachers have to say. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z It was a boarding school in Brooklyn, and she and Thalia were both attending, close enough to Camp Half-Blood that Chiron could help if they got in any trouble. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z His mother promised to take him to Brooklyn to meet his daddy, but when she left home again five years later, Reggie remained in Lambert. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Between Brooklyn and Manhattan, miles across the water, we saw the final curtain of New York City—the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z When I get back to Brooklyn, Maria isn't there. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z In Brooklyn, everybody goes south or to Puerto Rico or to their cousin's house in Queens. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z She has the top floor of her family’s mansion, which is a renovated brown- stone in Brooklyn. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “I can get a Graham Avenue trolley from the Brooklyn end that will take me right to my corner.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We live in Bed-Stuy, and she's always complaining about the reason they keep raising the rent so much around this part of Brooklyn, is because white people are moving in. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z The Brooklyn in me is not ready to trust this girl all the way. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “At least we made it back to Brooklyn,” I said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z "Leave Brooklyn? Boy, this is home. You leave home on your terms, not because someone ran you out. Got that?" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Decades later, as I talked with Rogers in his Brooklyn apartment, we agreed, only half joking, that the spinning cab was probably no accident. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z That fall in the false warmth of a Brooklyn Indian summer, Katie sat on the stoop and held her sickly baby against the bigness which was another child soon to be born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought Francie Nolan and I were practically identical, except that she had lived fifty years earlier in Brooklyn and her mother always kept the house clean. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z At 15, this youngster from Brooklyn has become the youngest international grand master in chess and has qualified for next year’s tournament to decide who shall meet Mikhail Botvinnik for the world’s chess championship. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In an attempt to find other boys who might want to play with Bobby, Regina wrote to the chess editor of the Brooklyn Eagle to see if he knew of any seven-year-old players. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z While she was ringing Pa, I realized my Timex was still on Brooklyn time and that it was after eleven o’clock. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z However much he loved us, he couldn’t live with the madness in our Queens home, preferring to keep his old digs at 478 Carlton Avenue in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that he was roaming the streets of Brooklyn as a one-man band and living on the pennies he collected. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And they all set out into the wilds of Brooklyn. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The late afternoon turned to gray dusk around them as Brooklyn settled into another summer night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Suddenly, I’m headed straight for the Brooklyn Bridge. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Speaking her sassy mind was what had gotten her Big Ma’s belt just before Pa had asked Big Ma to leave our home in Brooklyn. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z And less black and brown people too, though I wonder if they’ve been boxed in somewhere else, like in Brooklyn. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z But I can either stay here in Brooklyn and go to a community college, or one of the City University schools, or go away. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z My time in Brooklyn had become a defining moment for me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Frankie had told me how he had gotten from Brooklyn to Chicago, but not what happened after his arrival. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Even all of us coming to Brooklyn, my mother says, wasn't some accident. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z I’m sorry, lady, but if we did that we’d have half the wives in Brooklyn storming the place. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They had taken their money, their statuary and their gloomy oil paintings and had come to America and settled in Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time Dr. Bhalla encountered Wilson at Brooklyn Hospital, there was damage to all three main areas of his heart. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z After Daddy dies my grandmother brings the bed our mother was born in to Brooklyn. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z That summer and fall, Bobby also spent time playing against his grandfather’s septuagenarian cousin Jacob Schonberg, who also lived in Brooklyn. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It dubbed the contest “The Russian Bear vs. the Brooklyn Wolf.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But as beautiful as it was, and as cheerful as it made everyone for a while, in Brooklyn, even snow was dangerous. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Adopting the phraseology of the neighborhood, he referred to his Brooklyn internship as going through Purgatory, when he wrote to his socially prominent fiancée in Boston. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “And we’ve been to Brooklyn to see the roses at the Botanic Garden.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Before Jessica, there was Dominique, who moved from Brooklyn to Queens, which to a Brooklynite is like moving to another country. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The only difficulty is the glottal stop, the constriction of the throat that occurs when someone with a classic Brooklyn accent pronounces "bottle." 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn was one of the largest in New York and one of the oldest in the nation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The man's wearing warm-up pants and a white T-shirt with Brooklyn written across the chest. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Impertinence to a teacher was almost a reformatory offense in Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z This is a part of Brooklyn that gets shown on TV. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z We live in an apartment—a much better one than the Manhattan one, but still not good enough, not something to be proud of—in Brooklyn. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The college was located in Brooklyn Heights, another strange section of great Brooklyn for Francie to explore. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She can run in them if she has to, jump curbs, traverse the buckled, faulted sidewalks of Brooklyn without twisting an ankle. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though I’ve been living in Brooklyn all my life, it doesn’t feel like home to me. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Back at the ranch in Park Slope, Brooklyn, things are okay.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z In his mind, he never really made it beyond Court Street in Brooklyn. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z There must be reasons why there were so many jokes about Brooklyn. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The drive to Brooklyn seemed to go better if no one spoke. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z She smiled for what felt like the first time in a long while, and then she and her friends all walked out together into the dark blue Brooklyn morning. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z There were songs and dancing on the Brooklyn streets in those long ago summers and the days should have been joyous. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Brooklyn girls. Act like you all never been off the farm.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z By my fourth month in Brooklyn, I could read and write English much better than I could speak it, and at midterms I stunned the teachers by scoring high in English, History, and Social Studies. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Flom grew up in the Depression in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I even just started getting my application together for Brooklyn College. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z At Brooklyn Hospital, he was given a drug to break up the clot blocking an artery to his heart. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I had two dollars and eighty cents in my drawer at home to pay for the late fees for the remaining two weeks when we returned to Brooklyn. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The sounds of this night were different from last night’s when all the nighttime critters had been out to play—couldn’t hear the rain on the roof in Brooklyn. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It didn’t smell like Big Ma’s kitchen in Brooklyn, but it was the aroma of real food cooking. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to the article about Beecher, the paper also included a story about the sexual misconduct of Luther Challis, a wealthy Brooklyn stockbroker. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Even Neeley said it would be a good thing for her to go far off to college—she might get rid of her Brooklyn accent that way. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Between the times of Aristarchus and Huygens, humans answered the question that had so excited me as a boy growing up in Brooklyn: What are the stars? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And when Teacher said, “Brooklyn? Hm. I guess that makes you American, all right,” Francie was proud and happy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He had spent the better part of the morning wandering Brooklyn, far enough out of Red Hook not to be spotted by anyone he knew. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z I looked at him and said, Brooklyn’s part of America. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z When I am just one among many, keeping my spot in our V. What it feels like to be up above, beyond Park Slope, beyond Brooklyn, beyond New York, beyond, beyond, beyond. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z He thinks again about Brooklyn, about Henry’s youth shelter there. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The trees in Brooklyn were starting to bud. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Genie’s aim had gotten awesome, and he was thinking he could really impress his friends with it when he got back to Brooklyn. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z "I was wearing my Brooklyn shirt," I whispered. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Magdalys took one last look over the tumbling rooftops of Dactyl Hill, Brooklyn—it was the one place she’d truly thought of as home, and she’d only lived there a couple of days. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Lucy liked to put on how she was all Brooklyn when her mother was as country as Big Ma. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Most of the students were children of immigrant Jews who preferred to regard themselves as having been emancipated from the fenced-off ghetto mentality typical of the other Jewish parochial schools in Brooklyn. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z She remembered the day Thalia, Luke, and she had wandered into a Cyclopes’ lair in Brooklyn. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” he said, and his smile reminded her of what it used to be in Brooklyn, open, unguarded. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In the seventeenth century you traveled between Brooklyn and Manhattan across the East River by ferry. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can feel alone in Brooklyn or alone in Oakland.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “I’m sayin’, there’s what, eighteen eleven billion crossroads in Brooklyn alone, right?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Dad feels kind of lost here in Brooklyn. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom and Mr. Stokely said they were going to go around the other side of the observation deck and look at Brooklyn, where Mr. Stokely grew up. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z However, his chess friend Karl Burger said that when he played twelve-year-old Bobby in the park on Rochester Avenue in Brooklyn, the boy “was studying for his Bar Mitzvah.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A block away lived another Hasidic sect, Jews from southern Poland, who walked the Brooklyn streets like specters, with their black hats, long black coats, black beards, and earlocks. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Ma worked as a security guard in Downtown Brooklyn. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z If you didn’t squander the money in the pubs I wouldn’t have to follow you the way I did in Brooklyn. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The heat out there seemed so much hotter than what Genie and Ernie were used to in Brooklyn. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I found my way to the subway station and took a train out to Brooklyn, where my friend Diana lived. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But the actual ride over the Bridge was no different than the ride above the Brooklyn streets. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Right across from Brooklyn, something left a gaping hole in the tower. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Pilar, her first grandchild, writes to her from Brooklyn in a Spanish that is no longer hers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby, in contrast, was nervous and volatile, the chess arriviste of Brooklyn, a colt of a player, and as it was beginning to develop, the spearhead of the coming generation of American players. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Brooklyn is a big fat blob with its own ugly shape across from Manhattan; it looks like Jabba the Hutt counting his money. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Home was Brooklyn, New York, but Shirley would not know that for a while. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Then in 1969 he got a letter from the city of New York telling him to move out of his house in Brooklyn. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Safer’s mom tells him about a warehouse right here in Brooklyn where you can buy old appliances. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z We go back through the long streets of Brooklyn. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z At about midnight every night, she’d appear at the club and almost have to drag him back to Brooklyn, the pair taking the one-hour subway ride home together. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It had already enjoyed two days of freedom, and even on foot it would have easily made Brooklyn long ago. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z When the emcee mentioned that his young guest, introduced as “Mister X,” was from Brooklyn, someone shouted “Hooray!” and Bobby beamed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Bennie’s corner of Brooklyn looked different every time Sierra passed through it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “I’ll take you home. Do you live near the Brooklyn Bridge?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Down below, Brooklyn grew taller and denser as it sloped toward the river. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The Brooklyn Chess Club, established just after the Civil War, was one of the most prestigious in the nation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There were at least two dimes in coins, which was enough to call home to Brooklyn collect. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandpop spit all the apple seeds into the cup and spit the stem into his hand the way kids back home in Brooklyn did sunflower-seed shells. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Lourdes sends her snapshots of pastries from her bakery in Brooklyn. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He took me to a fancy Italian restaurant in Brooklyn, and he looked nervous, fidgeting with his hands. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Tess’s house wasn’t much different from their house back in Brooklyn, except for the furniture—the couches and chairs were covered in thick plastic. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z People pointed, laughed, and looked to see who would claim these sorry belongings, who could have thought the faded, torn clothes and stained shoes were still good enough for their new life in Brooklyn. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z That was the part of Brooklyn that was closest to New York City. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z As the regular season’s close drew nearer and nearer, the Brooklyn lead grew more and more narrow. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Most Brooklyn Germans had a habit of calling everyone who annoyed them a Jew. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Flat' lands, Aunty Uju said this section of Brooklyn was called. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We were asked the same questions in Brooklyn. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z So I pull those words together and try to make sense of it all: my hood, my Brooklyn, my life, my world, and me in it. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The butterflies gather round, and Sis selects a fiery red one to accompany us back to Brooklyn. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Brooklyn was a dark mass on the other side, speckled with a few flickering lanterns along the shore. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I walk over to the G train so I can hop on the L back into my part of Brooklyn, and I scroll through Instagram on my phone while I wait on the platform. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Why doesn’t the subway always stop at every stop? Where do you buy a bus pass? Which way is Brooklyn?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of British troops had landed on Brooklyn, just across the East River from New York City. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Somehow he’d left that boy behind, maybe in that bloody forest in Brooklyn. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z After dinner, we sat around the kitchen radio listening to a music program on the Brooklyn Haitian station. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z But Pa would have asked you to come back to Brooklyn if you said you loved him and us. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z How wonderful was Brooklyn, she thought, when just being born there automatically made you an American! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Brooklyn ain’t what it used to be. Sometimes I look around and hardly recognize the place. ‘Artisanal’ this and ‘organic’ that. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “The Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn. It’s close to the neighborhood where my mom grew up.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z One ended up running a small department store in Brooklyn. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z All of the forts were spread across Brooklyn Heights. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z After fried eggs and coffee, they said their goodbyes to the others and headed off through the still-dark streets of Brooklyn. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z When she cooked Thanksgiving, Brooklyn Daisy went on break and Carolina Daisy ran the show. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Days before, Captain Marsh had told Nate that he would stay inside the fort for as long as they were in Brooklyn. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z D.C. is almost like Brooklyn, but much cleaner with way fewer people crowded onto the streets. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z They were going to have a civil ceremony and then they would take some pictures in the wedding grove at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z On his free Sundays, Carlos carted the girls off to the Statue of Liberty or the Brooklyn Bridge or Rockefeller Center, but as far as Laura was concerned, these were men's wonders. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z And there wasn’t a Brooklyn boy who wouldn’t rather play on the Brooklyn’s team than be president of the United States. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The rain sang its gentle song against his wide windows, and outside, the lights of Brooklyn made a blurry haze in the night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z With his sister now married and his mother off on a peace march from San Francisco to Moscow, the Brooklyn apartment was all his—deliciously so, he felt. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z My wife and I were mugged in the eighties in Brooklyn Heights; the criminal was a crack addict who was finally apprehended after robbing several other people. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That was the mystery of the Orient in Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Later Shirley wrote a letter to Fourth Cousin and boasted of how she had triumphed on her very first day in Brooklyn. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z In two days in Brooklyn I had already encountered Jewish people, and now Italians. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Burnham of course knew of Olmsted’s achievements: Central Park in Manhattan, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, the grounds of Cornell and Yale, and scores of other projects. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Brooklyn is no different than any other place,” said Neeley firmly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We lived in a basement apartment in Brooklyn, which I doubt you remember, down the street from Uncle Ben and his wife, your aunt Janai. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z If the British took Brooklyn, they would put their cannons on Brooklyn Heights. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z She spoke loud into the receiver as if the cord wasn’t long enough from Autauga County, Alabama, to Brooklyn. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z We were close to the Brooklyn Bridge when Vonetta cried, “Look!” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Little white poodles were favorite pets in Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking down that Brooklyn street, Fischer and Collins exchanged knowing glances as they played. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She actually preferred to be among the poor, the working-class poor of the Red Hook Housing Projects in Brooklyn, the cement mixers, bakers, doughnut makers, grandmothers, and soul-food church partisans who were her lifelong friends. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was on these tense walks home from school that I decided I had to get out of Brooklyn. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It’s a five-block square of Brooklyn with brownstones and linden trees, considered safe as neighborhoods go on this side of Atlantic Avenue. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z So we applied to get an apartment in the Red Hook Housing Projects in Brooklyn. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want to go to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to take some pictures,” Caroline said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z It looked to be about one mile from Brooklyn Heights. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z There was a rumor that the Brooklyn’s had a hundred scouts roaming the streets of a Saturday afternoon watching lot games and spotting promising players. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She took him to the club, which was located in the old Brooklyn Academy of Music, the very next evening. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She tells him that she works for a small firm, a husband-and-wife team who operate out of a brownstone in Brooklyn Heights. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When my dad lost his job in Connecticut, Ashton said, a friend he knew from college gave him a job managing a Key Food in Brooklyn. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Genie couldn’t remember thunder being that loud in Brooklyn. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Prospect Park is one of my favorite places in Brooklyn, but being here with Ma makes me feel more nervous than excited. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Bobby looked more like a farm boy from Kansas than a kid from the streets of Brooklyn. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “The dogs can stay at the Brooklyn town house we use for our Broadway dogs.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z A twenty-six-year-old novice attorney who later became an international master, he greeted the Brooklyn pair and immediately matched Bobby with a player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Brooklyn stretched out before her in blinking avenues and cross streets, interrupted by the thorough emptiness of the East River and then the New York Bay. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Our faces are fresh, our hair is done, her dress is flowing, my T-shirt is poppin’, and we look cute as we walk through Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Back in Brooklyn, Big Ma wouldn’t stand for cooking without pork on a Sunday. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone from the Brooklyn Express snaps my picture. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The Battle of Brooklyn was about to begin. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z It was Brooklyn, Sierra realized, spotting the clock tower from downtown. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Sure, they said “brutha” and “sistah” in Brooklyn, but here it was more of a tide and not like you were saying “him” or “her.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Marshall was thirty years old, sentenced to 150 years to life for taking part in a robbery of a Brooklyn bodega in which his partner had killed the owner. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He lived with his wife and kids in the nongentrified part of Park Slope, Brooklyn. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I knuckled him in the rib to show him I was from Brooklyn and didn’t take any mess from a country boy, older cousin or not. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I described how in Brooklyn we didn’t have to wear uniforms to school, but on Fridays there was a class called assembly in a big auditorium, and all the kids had to wear white shirts. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z We’re now in a part of Brooklyn where some of the brownstones are nicer. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Even when his parents announced they were separating and his mother moved out of Brooklyn to Manhattan, Hudson still had hope they would get back together. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z It’s a shame, too, because all Lourdes ever sees in Brooklyn is dull little wrens or those filthy pigeons. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s definitely not Bushwickese or anything close to a Brooklyn twang. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Then another circle overlaps my friends’ names, and I write Brooklyn Collective. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Moving from one Brooklyn or Staten Island neighborhood to another was fine, but unless you had children to think about, even the homeless saw it as a step down to leave Manhattan. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She bought seven postcards with different pictures—the Brooklyn Bridge, Washington Square, the fish market—imagining which one she might send to Jackson. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Brooklyn became just a memory as I led them to distant lands where palaces shimmered against desert sand and paupers became princes with the whush of a magic wand. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z We loved staying in his house in Brooklyn. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When she brought the boy to Dr. Harold Kline at the Children’s Psychiatric Division of the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, Bobby was less than cooperative. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Felix Chavez, a courtly Puerto Rican from Brooklyn, had worked as assistant to a building’s super. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Until he was ten, Bobby’s regimen was fairly routine: He played at the Brooklyn Chess Club every Friday night, with Regina sitting on the sidelines, reading a book or doing her nursing homework. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Three days later the Connecticut 5th was ordered to Brooklyn along with six thousand other soldiers. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “Whew! It’s hotter here than Brooklyn in July—and twice as humid!” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Someone finally pointed out to him that the Piatigorskys would no longer continue to pick up his hotel costs, so, reluctantly, he flew back home to Brooklyn. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “You really think that was any different than the Brooklyn ones?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z We don’t see anything then; we just feel how fast we’re going, speeding down the highway from Queens to Brooklyn, the siren blaring. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z We left Brooklyn because there wasn’t enough magic there, either. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z We rode to the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital, which was a few blocks away, and Mr. Galanter paid the cab fare. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Then the lilting strains of “Silent Night” brought Shirley back to Brooklyn, and she searched the audience for her parents. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Even though they each come every twenty minutes, the schedule may be something like the following: Bronx train, 7:00; Brooklyn train, 7:05; Bronx train, 7:20; Brooklyn train, 7:25; and so on. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d have left behind something that spoke for itself, like the Brooklyn Bridge. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z All she’d notice was that some things were strange because they reminded her of Brooklyn and that other things were strange because they were so different from Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t see many hippies in Brooklyn, not where we lived; and there was a whole tribe of them before us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Our story starts in Ms. Laverne’s class in the borough of Brooklyn in the city of New York. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Even more than a chess champion, young Bobby Fischer wanted to be Duke Snider, the legendary Brooklyn Dodgers baseball player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Tata had been in Brooklyn more than fifteen years, and if her blood hadn’t thickened by then, I worried about how long it would take. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I’ll never forget the prison sensation created that day in April, 1947, when Jackie Robinson was brought up to play with die Brooklyn Dodgers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I used to come to this part of Brooklyn all the time before my mother died. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z No sign of Rabbi Shilsky, whom I traced to a Brooklyn address in the 1960s, where he apparently landed after wandering through Norfolk, Virginia; Belleville, New Jersey; and Manhattan. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound, but you couldn’t fit those words into Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They were Brooklyn migratory workers following seasonal work from one part of the borough to the other. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The best course seemed tentatively to accept the offer, and in mid-October he wrote Harker that he would come to Brooklyn in the fall of the following year. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But it is a long-distance call from Greenville to Brooklyn, too much money and not enough time to explain that New York City is gray rock and quick-moving cars. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Every Thursday night, Fred and the other dogs from the show would hang out in the living room of the Brooklyn brownstone and watch Dog Squad together. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z On the dark and foggy night of August 27, almost ten thousand American troops snuck off Brooklyn in a fleet of small boats. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “I got lost in Brooklyn only Saturday. Now where is it you were wanting to go?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Burns told Paul she was an Irish Catholic from Brooklyn. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z My mother—all four feet eleven and a half inches and 217 pounds of her—patrols the streets of Brooklyn at night in a skintight uniform, clanging with enough antiriot gear to quash another Attica. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I guess you wanted to protect me, too. But I didn’t want to go back to Brooklyn!” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Ben’s ranch; Sabeen’s home; how even Brooklyn, one part to the next, is different. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z But I didn't pay it any mind because this is Brooklyn. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I’ll speed up Flatbush Avenue—the artery of fat Brooklyn—right to the Brooklyn entrance of the bridge, with the potholes and cops stationed all night. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Regina didn’t want Bobby to be mugged or hurt in a half-deserted subway station as he worked his way alone at night from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Housed in a stately brownstone that had originally been a private home, it was one of the loveliest school buildings in Brooklyn. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Like she’s trying to keep herself from shouting from Brooklyn to here. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “The Brooklyn Navy Yard’s right over there and that camouflaged boat anchored there is a transport. The cops are always watching out for spies.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Will L. Wilson’s heart attack came four days earlier in the bedroom of his brownstone in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Canarsie really is the very edge of the world, or at least Brooklyn. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Finally, after I don’t know how long, we got in the car and drove the seven hours back to Brooklyn. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The drug trade ran so rampant and gang warfare was so ubiquitous in that part of Brooklyn that most people would take to the safety of their apartment at nightfall. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was rushed by ambulance to the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital and put into a semiprivate room one floor below the eye ward. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The midwife surreptitiously confiscated the caul and later sold it to a sailor from the Brooklyn Navy Yard for two dollars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Either Cecile wouldn’t come back to Brooklyn or she wasn’t welcome. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Brooklyn. It’s a magic city and it isn’t real.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z That everything had changed, but nothing had changed, that whatever Mami had been looking for when she brought us to Brooklyn was not there, just as it wasn’t in Puerto Rico. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There’s something about calling out Brooklyn that makes you feel like you’ve grown a few inches, maybe sprouted some hairs on your chin, or an extra lump in your bicep. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z There was an iron-bound convention in Brooklyn that children must have their picture taken by a regular photographer when they were confirmed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your own savings account at the Brooklyn National Bank. Open it.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z As if to emphasize the tenuousness of Levi Saunders’ existence, he became violently ill the day following his bar mitzvah and was taken by ambulance to the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Since we’d come to Brooklyn, her world had become full of new possibilities, and I tried very hard to share her excitement about the good life we were to have somewhere down the road. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “We found a picture of it in the Brooklyn Museum. We tried to take care of it, but it was nearing the end of its life, so...” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z On the morning of his meeting with the black ministers, Eduardo and I drove out a few hours early to the site in Brooklyn and walked it through once again. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z After howling off the Brooklyn Bridge, I walked home and felt great. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z It had been written by a poet who had lived in Brooklyn, gone to the Brooklyn public schools and, as a young man, had edited The Brooklyn Eagle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone’s yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “My parents are American. They were born in Brooklyn.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I never said that. I just didn't think your favorite spot in all of Brooklyn would be a corner where some guy sells books. Why not...the library?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He recognized various members of the Brooklyn Chess Club and also a few regulars from Washington Square Park. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He awoke on a bench in the Long Island Railroad Station, a cop rapping on his boots with a nightstick, his escape money gone, the MacNamara sisters ready to eat him alive in Brooklyn. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Home in his apartment in Brooklyn, Bobby went through what was becoming his routine: elimination of social engagements, long periods of solitary study, analysis of games, and a search for innovations in openings. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the fall of 1952, when Bobby was nine, Regina secured scholarship enrollment for him in Brooklyn Community Woodward, a progressive grade school of approximately 150 children. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z All the sniping between Vonetta and Fern over Miss Patty Cake was now aimed at their new enemies: the real food that we would eat until we returned to Brooklyn, and me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z How would Nate get back to the fort on Brooklyn Heights? I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z She watched Brooklyn pass as the achingly slow city bus lurched ahead. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Two days in Brooklyn, and they already loved everything about it. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z After the relative wealth of Midtown Manhattan, my section of Brooklyn feels even poorer. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t look so shocked, Brooklyn. You don’t get more southern than Alabama.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The day after he got to New York, he found a job at an ice-cream parlor in Brooklyn, not far from The Phoenix. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “I’m a Brooklyn girl,” I told my cousin. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z It was in a way the Brooklyn of its time. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Brooklyn zoning board was meeting that afternoon and he had no one to cover it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Last June, when John Green came and did a reading at the Brooklyn Public Library, we went together and stood on line starting at three in the afternoon, when school got out. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z But no matter what they sang, always they finished off with one of Brooklyn’s own folk songs: “Mother Machree,” “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling,” “Let Me Call You Sweetheart,” or “The Band Played On.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z More than anything, I wanted to impress the panel with my talent, so that I would be accepted into Performing Arts and leave Brooklyn every day. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He talked to him about his own youngest son who was a pitcher on the Brooklyn team. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I got macaroni and cheese and she got a root beer float, and we drove back home to the superior wilds of Brooklyn. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z She’s rocking her signature Brooklyn loves Haiti T-shirt and pink velour sweatpants, even though it’ll be hot as hell in that kitchen. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Some lines merge; others stretch to and from Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Manhattan. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z "This is Decatur Street, son. Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. The streets talk anyway, but they talk even louder to me," he said like a big shot. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z After coffee Odile wanted to know whether they would still have to go into exile in Brooklyn if our work was as sensational as everyone told her. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z When I come home that night, Mom shows me the full-page ad she took out in the Brooklyn Express'. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He promised to take Francie to the Spanish section of Brooklyn some day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If she messed up, all of Brooklyn would see it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I thought of my father and how he might wash up one day along a beach in England or Greenland or Brooklyn. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Then for a year, if not more, with Crick in exile in Brooklyn, peace and serenity would prevail. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It was a flickering thought, but there was no doubt about it: In the tiny time she’d been there, Brooklyn had already become a kind of shelter. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The other half was soaring through the Brooklyn skies on dactylback. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z At home in Brooklyn, you turned the dial six or seven times to see what was on the other channels. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z His mom kept it in her garage all these years, and a couple of weeks ago Dad drove it to Brooklyn in a rented van. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I’m from Brooklyn,” I said, and we both started laughing hysterically. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z It’s the same tree the girl in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn saw from her fire escape. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The only one he knew of right off hand was in the Botanical Gardens in Brooklyn, and that had a fence around it. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of that same year, Johnny got the notion that his children were growing up ignorant of the great ocean that washed the shores of Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Absolutely. We have the best care in Brooklyn here, Mrs. Gilner. The renovations are only a temporary situation.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z We hurtled down the bridge toward Brooklyn, going faster than any human taxi. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Like most Saturdays, she would be working the whole day in Brooklyn. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z |
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