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Brooklyn Heights: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of America's First Suburb

Brooklyn Heights: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of America's First Suburb

Furman, Robert
Merlis, Brian

Hardcover

Travel GeneralGeneral PhotographyRegional: Middle Atlantic

Publisher Price: $38.99

ISBN10: 1540213714
ISBN13: 9781540213716
Publisher: History Pr
Published: Jul 13 2015
Pages: 482
Weight: 1.78
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Settled in the 1600s, Brooklyn Heights is one of New York s most historic neighborhoods. Its strategic location overlooking the harbor proved instrumental during the Revolutionary War s Battle of Brooklyn. In the 1830s, steam ferries transformed it into America s first suburb, where abolitionism flourished and one of the largest Civil War Sanitary Fairs was held. Throughout the nineteenth century, wealthy philanthropists and entrepreneurs built high-styled Gothic Revival and Italianate homes and founded many landmark Brooklyn institutions. Though the neighborhood declined with the new century, it became a target of Robert Moses s urban renewal projects in the 1930s. Its designation as the city s first historic district saved Brooklyn Heights, and it has since blossomed into one of the city s most desirable neighborhoods.

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