“How long would it take a guy wit’ a good map,” said the narrator, “to know all deh was to know about Brooklyn?” The story ran in The New Yorker on June 15, 1935. It was written by Thomas Wolfe, a ...

DUMBO, Brooklyn (PIX11) — The streets of New York have to be tough. They’re heavily traveled, and some are centuries old. A special project is wrapping up along some historic roadways in Brooklyn.