OTBKB guest blogger, Adrienne Onforio, made it into the Daily News with a nice piece by Dennis Hamill. A really nice piece. Here’s a excerpt.

My mother would have loved this book.

She loved to walk, she reveled in history, and she adored Brooklyn and so she would have cherished "Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies, Neighborhood Culture, Side Streets and Waterways," by Adrienne Onofri.

Sometimes it takes an outsider’s eye to give us a fresh take on Brooklyn.

"The book was conceived by the publisher, Wilderness Press, based in Berkeley, Calif.," says Onofri, who was born in Manhattan, reared in Rockland County, and who lives in Astoria, Queens.

"They do mostly outdoor books on the American West, but they decided to start doing books on urban walking tours. They picked Brooklyn, as opposed to all of New York, and I heard about it from a friend of the publisher’s."

Onofri sketched out an overview, a table of contents of her 30 walking tours in Brooklyn, and wrote a few sample chapters and submitted it to Wilderness Press.