A write-around Williamsburg

Grand St. Waterfront

Much of the book’s narrative is told in recollections and flashbacks. Before Jarvis’s husband Martin’s accident, the two used to spend romantic twilights down at the Grand Street waterfront (at River St.). Attenberg explains: “It’s just a really great place where every single kind of person from the neighborhood can gather to watch the sunset. If you go down there any night of the week, but especially the weekends during the summer, you’ll see everyone—the Hasidic guys, the little kids, the hipster kids. It’s a tiny rocky little nothing, it’s not very pretty and the grass isn’t nice, but it’s all we have. It’s amazing because you’re watching Manhattan and wondering what’s going on there while we’re here in Brooklyn, feeling small. If you want to know the community, you go down there.”