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The Brooklyn Collection presents a selection of resources on Brooklyn Heights, which has been described as "America's First Suburb."
Brooklyn Heights - America's First Suburb
A brief history and description of the neighborhood.
Brooklyn Heights Historic Photographs Slideshow
Photographs from Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Collection
Brooklyn.net
WPA Guide to New York City (1939) entry on Brooklyn Heights
Community Board 2, Brooklyn (Brooklyn Heights) Homepage
Website dedicated to the community board serving Brooklyn Heights.
Village Voice: Close-Up on Brooklyn Heights
The weekly paper's description of the neighborhood.
Brooklyn Eagle, February 23, 1889
Brooklyn Eagle, November 21, 1897
Brooklyn Eagle, December 15, 1889
Brooklyn Eagle, April 6, 1890
Brooklyn Eagle, January 23, 1887
Brooklyn Eagle, April 20, 1887
Brooklyn Eagle, March 23, 1900
A house on the heights
Capote, Truman
Capote describes the neighborhood he lived in during the 1950s and 1960s.
Brooklyn Heights & downtown
Merlis, Brian
A photographic history of Brooklyn Heights, tracing its development from the Industrial Revolution through the Roaring Twenties.
Old Brooklyn Heights : New York's first suburb : including detailed analyses of 619 century-old houses
Clay Lancaster
An architectural analysis of Brooklyn Heights's oldest residences.
Place names in Brooklyn Heights
Tamara K. Rubel
A Brooklyn College Master's Thesis on how the streets and landmarks of Brooklyn Heights came to be named.
The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn c.2004
Kenneth Jackson and John Manbeck
An invaluable introduction to Brooklyn’s many neighborhoods, with an illustrated chapter on each, including Brooklyn Heights. Includes a map, a neighborhood profile and neighborhood facts.
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