Brooklyn Heights is Perfectly Posh • 10/13/23 • Brooklyn, NY

It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, as Mister Rogers used to say, so it made perfect sense to make a video of my favorite neighborhood in Brooklyn. Nowhere else in NYC has this many beautiful and historic brownstones, townhouses, carriage houses and buildings coupled with an amazing promenade in such well maintained condition. Every street you walk down is picturesque and the view of Manhattan, the Brooklyn Bridge and the harbor is spectacular. This is primarily a residential neighborhood with various bars, restaurants and shops on Montague Street and Henry Street. The Cobble Hill neighborhood is south of here right across Atlantic Avenue, with DUMBO (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass) bordering it on the north. The Brooklyn Heights area is directly across the East River from Manhattan and connected to it by subways and regular ferry service, which is also easily accessible from Downtown Brooklyn. Columbia Heights, an upscale six-block-long street next to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, is sometimes considered to be its own neighborhood. An interesting oddity in this area can be seen at 45:05 of a subway ventilation shaft and emergency exit stairways disguised as a brownstone building. The windows are blacked out and most people wouldn't even notice it passing by. Pretty cool right? Also cool and around the corner, is the park dedicated to Beastie Boy Adam Yauch aka MCA, who unfortunately passed away in 2012. He grew up in the neighborhood and that exact playground.

Originally referred to as Brooklyn Village, it has been a prominent area of Brooklyn since 1834. The neighborhood is noted for its low-rise architecture and its many brownstone row houses, most of them built prior to the Civil War. It also has an abundance of notable churches and other religious institutions. Brooklyn's first art gallery, the Brooklyn Arts Gallery, was opened in Brooklyn Heights in 1958. In 1965, a large part of Brooklyn Heights was protected from unchecked development by the creation of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, the first such district in New York City. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

Brooklyn received a charter from the state as a village in 1816, which led to streets being laid out in a regular grid pattern, sidewalks being laid, water pumps being installed and the institution of a watch. After 1823, farms begin to be sub-divided into 25-by-100-foot (7.6 by 30.5 m) lots, which were advertised as suitable for a "country retreat" for Manhattanites, leading to a building boom that resulted in Brooklyn Heights becoming the "first commuter suburb", since it was easier and faster to get to Manhattan by ferry than it was to commute from upper Manhattan by ground transportation.

FEATURES:
Clinton St 0:00
State St 0:58
Court St 2:49
Schermerhorn St 3:32
Clinton St 5:19
Aitken Pl 6:10
Sidney Pl 6:33
Joralemon St 7:48
Hicks St 10:54
Grace Ct Alley 11:52
Remsen St 12:25
Henry St 14:24
Montague St 14:50
Promenade 17:07
Pierrepont St 19:47
Willow St 20:45
Clark St 22:44
Promenade 23:38
Columbia Heights 26:20
Old Fulton St 28:31
Bk Bridge Park Pier 29:22
Middagh St 30:36
Willow St 30:51
Cranberry St 31:43
Henry St 33:40
Clark St Subway 34:47
Pineapple St 36:32
Pierrepont St 38:45
Remsen St 41:12
Hicks St 43:17
Joralemon St 43:50
Columbia Pl 45:56
Adam Yauch Park 47:49
Willow Pl 49:37
Atlantic Ave 50:57