The Bronx Nobody Knows

By William B. Helmreich,

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A neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to New York City's northern 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 the Bronx to create this one-of-a-kind…

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1 author picked The Bronx Nobody Knows as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I was born in the Bronx and lived there with my wife and kids until we moved to the suburbs in my mid-40s. I swam with the carrots in the water at Orchard Beach, roamed the NY Botanical Gardens, went to Yankee games, sang harmony under the El on Allerton Avenue and White Plains Road, and have been a professor at Fordham University since 1998. 

William Helmrecih, who succumbed to COVID-19 in 2020, left us this wonderful walking guide to the Bronx, in which he goes into neighborhoods and side streets and nooks and crannies even I didn’t know about.

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