Book about Brooklyn at BookMark Shoppe in Bay Ridge!

I've long wanted to visit this book shop and this seems to be a grand opportunity to do so!

Here are the details:
The BookMark Shoppe is hosting the historian Henry Stewart, whose latest book is called The Streets of Brooklyn: The Pedestrian Pleasures of a Sunday Columnist, !886-7. Apparently, Stewart is the compiler of columns written by someone credited only as E.R.G. The site doesn't exactly say so, but I imagine this is either a reading or a book talk. Let's find out!

The new book is described as follows: "In the late nineteenth century, a Brooklyn Daily Eagle columnist who signed his reports "E.R.G." chronicled a pedestrian-level view of the architecture, history and street life of the city’s thoroughfares, describing how its interlocking roadways formed the tapestry of a budding metropolis—then in the midst of a grand transformation after the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. He watches the Saturday shoppers on Myrtle Avenue and the Sunday gamblers on Baltic Street; he studies the handsome villas of Washington Avenue and the shanties of Columbia Street; he celebrates Shore Road and lambastes the Gowanus Canal. Often cited by local historians for their detail and flair, these columns are for the first time collected by historian Henry Stewart (How Bay Ridge Became Bay Ridge), who demystifies the obscurest references while piecing together how the story of one of the largest cities in America began on its sidewalks."

Here's a link to that description of the book itself, which sounds promising:
https://www.bookmarkshoppe.com/product/streets-brooklyn-henry-stewart

After, we may have a bite at a nearby place, depending on interest