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Street by Street:
Brooklyn Heights

Facing Lower Manhattan, across the East River, Brooklyn Heights
is one of New York’s most elegant and historic neighborhoods.
The city’s wealthy elites built brownstone town houses here in
the 1820s, when the Heights became the city’s first commuter
suburb. The completion of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883, and the
opening of the subway in 1908, led to intensified development. Locator Map
See map pp16–17
Today, Brooklyn Heights is an extremely affluent neighborhood.
Brooklyn Bridge Park/
Dumbo Ferry Terminal

Bargemusic, EVE RIT ST
moored just under the
Brooklyn Bridge, is a renovated
coffee barge dating from O L D F U L T O N S T
the late 19th century, and
holds nightly chamber D O U G H T Y S T
music performances. S
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Brooklyn Ice Cream C
Factory is based in
an early 20th-century
fireboat house on the
Fulton Ferry Pier, and B R O O K L Y N Q U E E N S E X P Y
serves just eight
flavors of ice cream. T
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70 Willow Street is said E
to be where Truman H O R A N G E S T
Capote wrote Breakfast I A
at Tiffany’s. B
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. Brooklyn Heights Promenade C L A R K S T
This pedestrian path offers
sensational views of the Statue of
Liberty, Lower Manhattan’s
skyscrapers, and the Brooklyn Bridge.

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