It Happened in Brooklyn by Myrna Katz Frommet and Harvey Frommer. Harcourt Brace, 250 pp., $15.00 (paper). These two recent compendia cover different ranges, address different audiences, but both satisfy a persistent hunger for details about the inner workings of New York City, shared by the native and outsider alike. Frommer and Frommer have assembled a playful, interestingly arranged, and stimulating collection of extracts from oral histories. Organized topically, the comments span such issues as street life, school life, the not-so-private worlds of Brooklyn apartment ...

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