Who Knows Brooklyn is a story written by Ben McGrath about two “historians” that live in Brooklyn competing in life for no reason. The two historians names are Brian Merlis and John Manbeck. In the story it explains how Brian Merlis received a copy of a book called “Historic Photos of Brooklyn” which was made by John Manbeck. He didn’t like the book at all and wrote reviews about to two different Brooklyn newspapers.
This resulted in the two men having a discussion in which Merlis asked Manbeck, “Why don’t you publish a list of my books?” and which Manbeck responded “Why don’t you put out good books?” in which he then reaches into his bag and pulls out his latest book leaving Merlis in a not so good stance.
Throughout the story the two men continue bickering over Who Know’s Brooklyn when neither of them are trained historians and were actually just at local high schools and colleges.
