Brooklyn Heights

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Brooklyn Heights is a culturally diverse section of Brooklyn, located on the south end of the Brooklyn Bridge across from Lower Manhattan. It was establish in 1834 and originally referred to as 'Brooklyn Village'. As of 2000, Brooklyn Heights had a population of 22,594 people.  Brooklyn Heights is service by 9 subway lines, so if you are going to the east or west side of Manhattan travelling is a breeze and you will rarely have to change trains.

Brooklyn Heights was made famous by such movies as Annie Hall and Moonstruck. When you leave the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. head toward Stigwood Avenue where your'll see a two story Brownstone Building that was the exterior of the Huxtable home on the Cosby show.

The best way to get to Manhattan from Brooklyn Heights is to walk or cycle accross the Brooklyn Bridge. The Brooklyn Bridge walkway is popular with Brooklyn Heights residents and tourists allike.  Its elevated walkway offers tremendous views of Lower Manhattan.

Brooklyn Heights is famous for its amazing views of Lower Manhattan and the New York harbor.  From the Brooklyn Heights Promenade you'll get a great view Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building and the Statue of liberty.  The Brooklyn Heights Promenade was built above the Brooklyn-Queens expressway in 1950. Prior to that, the land was private gardens.

At 24 Middah Street your will find the Federal Building which is the oldest building in Brooklyn Heights and built in 1824.  The Heights was mostly farm land from 1640's to almost 1800.  When Robert Fulton invented the faster ferry in 1814, the population in Brooklyn Heights boomed.  

The Plymouth Church of the Pilgrim on Orange Street was founded in 1847 and its first preacher was Henry Ward Beacher, brother of the writer Hariet Beacher Stow.  Beacher was a powerfull abolitionist speaker who drew crowds on Sundays and was visited by Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Abraham Lincoln.

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