Guest Blogger Adrienne Onofri shares some of her favorite walks from her new book Walking Brooklyn with the readers of OTBKB:

The first itinerary I developed for Walking Brooklyn features that most famous Brooklyn walk—across the Brooklyn Bridge (which is paired with the Promenade for a “Riverside Rambles” route). I wanted to include the other East River bridges too, especially since some New Yorkers had told me they didn’t even know you could walk on them. Walk 2 in the book goes over the Manhattan Bridge, then through Dumbo’s riverfront parks to the Ferry Landing. Those who take the Williamsburg tour begin by walking across the bridge from Delancey St. in Manhattan.

As noted in the book, the Manhattan Bridge has the most elaborate entrance of the three (heading toward Brooklyn), while the Williamsburg gives you the most striking view upon entering Brooklyn: an equestrian statue of George Washington, across from the Roman temple-like building of the old Williamsburg Trust Company.

Walking Brooklyn spotlights other bridges as well. The Verrazano-Narrows is visible throughout the Bay Ridge walk, while the Fort Hamilton to Bensonhurst trip takes you under the bridge (and to see a monument to the man who got it named after Verrazano). You see the Marine Parkway Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Rockaway, from Manhattan Beach, and I point out the two bridges over the Newtown Creek on the Greenpoint walk—named, appropriately for that Polish neighborhood, after generals Pulaski and Kosciuszko. You cross the Gowanus Canal via the 1889 retractile bridge on Carroll St. on the Gowanus/Carroll Gardens walk, and the Sheepshead Bay marina via a charming wooden footbridge built in 1882. Brooklyn’s oldest bridge? That’s on the Prospect Park walk. It’s Endale Arch, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted when the park was created in the 1860s.