In-print books by members of the Bay Ridge Historical Society, past and present, are usually available at society meetings. You can also find them online and at local retailers.
How Bay Ridge Became Bay Ridge (2019)
By Henry Stewart
Bookmark Shoppe | Amazon
True Crime Bay Ridge (2018)
By Henry Stewart
Bookmark Shoppe | Amazon
More True Crime Bay Ridge (2020)
By Henry Stewart
Bookmark Shoppe | Amazon
Old Bay Ridge & Ovington Village: A History (2015)
By Matthew Scarpa
Bookmark Shoppe | IndieBound | Amazon
Images of America: Bay Ridge (2001)
By Peter Scarpa, Lawrence Stelter and Peter Syrdahl
Bookmark Shoppe | IndieBound | Amazon
Bay Ridge Etc.
By Ted General, Jack La Torre and Peter Scarpa
available at Historical Society meetings
Postcard History Series: Bay Ridge (2013)
By Matthew Scarpa
Bookmark Shoppe | IndieBound | Amazon
Bay Ridge: Then & Now (2009)
By Peter Scarpa and Lawrence Stelter
Bookmark Shoppe | IndieBound | Amazon
Other books of interest
The Bridge (1964)
By Gay Talese
Bookmark Shoppe | Amazon
Out-of-print books of interest
The Bay Ridge Chronicles: 1524-1976 (1976)
By Jerome Hoffman
Amazon | Check eBay
Read: Issu
Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton (2000)
By Brian Merlis and Lee Rosenzweig
Amazon | Check eBay
Older Books
Old Bay Ridge (1962)
By Grace A. Glen
Read: Brooklyn College
Old Bay Ridge (1932)
By the Ladies Aid Society of Union Church of Bay Ridge (Presbyterian)
Read: Issu
Reminiscences of Old New Utrecht and Gowanus (1912)
By Mrs. Bleecker Bangs
Read: Google Books | Archive.org
Buy: Alibris
The History of Christ Church Bay Ridge (1953)
By Sarah Mary Wilson Huntley
Read at the Brooklyn Collection at the Brooklyn Public Library in Grand Army Plaza. More info here.
Historical Books of Interest by Residents of Old Bay Ridge
Genealogy of the Van Brunt Family (1867)
By Teunis G. Bergen
Read: Archive.org
The Bergen Family (1876)
By Teunis G. Bergen (with “Notes on the Genealogy of Some…Other Long Island Families”)
Read: Archive.org
“Address on the Annals of New Utrecht” (1877)
By Teunis G. Bergen
See a sloppy scan here.
A History of New Utrecht (ca. 1880)
By Teunis G. Bergen, unpublished
Read at the Brooklyn Historical Society. More info here.
The Voyage of Verrazano (1875)
By Henry C. Murphy
Read: Archive.org
Novels of Interest
Gilbert Sorrentino: Steelwork, Red the Fiend, Little Casino, Crystal Vision, A Strange Commonplace, The Abyss of Human Illusion (and his son Christopher Sorrentino’s memoir Now Beacon, Now Sea)
Hubert Selby, Jr.: Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Song of the Silent Snow, The Demon
Etaf Rum: A Woman is No Man
William Boyle: Shoot Out the Moonlight
Tom McDonough: Virgin with Child
Kenneth H. Brown: The Narrows
Tim McLoughlin: Heart of the Old Country
Lawrence Block: A Walk Among the Tombstones, When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
Matt Beynon Rees: The Fourth Assassin
Nelson DeMille: Word of Honor
Emmett Grogan: Ringolevio
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