Ninety-Second Street: Brooklyn Stories by Gerry Coleman is a series of anecdotal tales from a time, mainly the early 1960s through the mid-1970s, that now exists only in memory. These atmospheric stories take place primarily in and around the far reaches of Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge neighborhood. It is an insular community anchored both by the Verrazano Bridge over New York Bay to Staten Island and the remote end of the Fourth Avenue subway line, roughly a full hour’s ride from the bustle of Manhattan. In contrast to what many New Yorkers of the Outer Boroughs (Queens, Staten Island, and The Bronx, as well as Brooklyn) still call “The City,” meaning Manhattan, the Bay Ridge that author Gerry Coleman so vividly, and at times poignantly, describes – and grew up in – is something of a lost world.