brooklyn (new york, n.y.)

Eight months after a debilitating car accident leaves her with brain trauma and a back injury, amnesiac teen Ember tries to piece together the six weeks of her life leading up to the accident--and determine why none of her friends or family are willing to talk about it.

Devorah, a young Hasidic Jewish woman with a strict upbringing, and Jaxon, a fun-loving, book-smart nerd, who live across the street from one another in Brooklyn and have never met are trapped together in an elevator during a hurricane and make a connection. Even though their relationship is forbidden, they continue to meet.

When eighteen-year-old Jill opts to move to New York with Ramie rather than take a road trip with her boyfriend Tommy, all of their relationships are shaken up as Jack, the boy she turns into for four days each month, finally has the chance to get to know himself.

Dory Basarab, a half human, half vampire, is hoping to get a little peace after the death of her insane uncle, but instead things get even more hectic when she agrees to help friends look for a magical Fey relic, and a missing mistress--both of which are believed to be in the possession of a master vampire who mysteriously turns up dead.

Chronicles the Brooklyn Dodgers' 1956 season, recounting the events that led to the team's departure to Los Angeles.

A teenage girl in 1970's Brooklyn falls in love with an aspiring mobster, risking everything for a chance at love.

A story of family life among African Americans and Latinos living in Brooklyn during the Vietnam era.

Recounts the story of the Horne family spanning eight generations and describing America's developing black middle class by Lena Horne's daughter.

A film adaptation of Esmeralda Santiago's memoir of her experiences as a Puerto Rican teenager trying to adjust to life in New York in the 1960s, after moving to the city with her mother and siblings in search of medical care.

Jewelry store owner Moe Rosen is welcomed into the community of West Indian immigrants that has taken over his Brooklyn neighborhood after he saves a Haitian woman from a brutal mugging, but his involvement in the lives of his new friends eventually leads him and those he loves into grave danger.