brooklyn (new york, n.y.)

When the housekeeper quits while their parents are doing research in the Brazilian jungle, two teenage sisters and their ten-year-old brother decide to live on their own in the family's unrenovated Brooklyn brownstone.

Rhoda braves the ridicule of her peers to befriend a poor family and learns to make decisions for herself.

A fourteen-year-old boy in Brooklyn who has grown up in the foster care system discovers respect and love with a parochial school girl and with the eccentric couple who take him in.

Back home in Brooklyn, fifteen-year-old Viola has big summer plans but with one best friend going to camp and the other not only working but experiencing her first crush, Viola is glad to be overworked as an unpaid lighting intern when her grandmother's play goes to Broadway.

Presents the oral history of Brooklyn, New York from the 1940s through the 1960s focusing on a childhood, school days, a variety of activities in a family, and finally graduating from high school. Is accompanied by unique black-and-white photographs.

Presents an illustrated history of Brooklyn that contains black-and-white pictures of historic locations contrasted with contemporary color photographs of the locations today.

Provides an account of the author's life growing up in mid-century Brooklyn as the Jewish-Arabic child of an Iraqi father and Syrian mother. Explores his artistic awakening in the context of his Sephardic community. Compares the tension between the Arab and Jewish nations to the tensions in his family and within himself.

The family and friends of a Haitian immigrant living in New York City describe his tortured past.