Eat (And Drink) Your Way Through Literary Brooklyn
Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs
Of course, this is a Brooklyn landmark even without any particular literary significance. But the moment in Just Kids when Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe take a trip down to Coney and are only able to afford a single hot dog is a poignant one, and anyway, this serves as a good lead-in to a darker follow-up activity, taking a flask to the beach and a re-reading A Coney Island of the Mind.