Brooklyn: The Once and Future City

An unprecedented history of Brooklyn told through its places buildings and the people who made them from the early seventeenth century to todayAmerica's most storied urban underdog Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades?celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In Brooklyn: The Once and Future City Thomas J. Campanella unearths long-lost threads of the urban past telling the rich history of the rise fall and reinvention of one of the worldÕs most resurgent cities.Spanning centuries and neighborhoods Brooklyn-born Campanella recounts the creation of places familiar and long forgotten both built and never realized bringing to life the individuals whose dreams visions rackets and schemes forged the city we know today. He takes us through BrooklynÕs history as homeland of the Leni Lenape and its transformation by Dutch colonists into a dense slaveholding region. We learn about English ŽmigrŽ Deborah Moody whose town of Graves