Description
Brooklyn Heights is a leafy Brooklyn neighborhood of 19th-century brownstones on a bluff above the East River, just across from Lower Manhattan. Its quiet tree-lined streets and its riverside promenade make for a fine walk.
The highlight is the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, a walkway built over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway with views of the Manhattan skyline, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty. Inland, rows of houses in many styles, from Greek Revival to Victorian Gothic, rise above high front steps called stoops, a word borrowed from Dutch.
In 1965 it became the city's first historic district. Before the Civil War, Plymouth Church was a center of the fight against slavery thanks to its preacher, Henry Ward Beecher. And on Montague Street, a plaque marks where Jackie Robinson signed his contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The highlight is the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, a walkway built over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway with views of the Manhattan skyline, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty. Inland, rows of houses in many styles, from Greek Revival to Victorian Gothic, rise above high front steps called stoops, a word borrowed from Dutch.
In 1965 it became the city's first historic district. Before the Civil War, Plymouth Church was a center of the fight against slavery thanks to its preacher, Henry Ward Beecher. And on Montague Street, a plaque marks where Jackie Robinson signed his contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers.