ManhattanWalks

ManhattanWalks Visits Brooklyn Heights

One of the oldest established neighborhoods in New York, more than half the houses in Brooklyn Heights were built before 1860. It was designated the City's first Landmarked Historic District in 1965. Join ManhattanWalks and explore picturesque streets that have been home to famous artists, politicians and businessmen. Area streets and buildings have also been featured in movies such as Moonstruck and Prizzi's Honor... and baby boomers should remember the popular theme song from the classic sitcom The Patty Duke Show, whose title character "has only seen the sights a girl can see from Brooklyn Heights."

A View from the Brooklyn Promenade.

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On your ManhattanWalks tour, you'll see elegant 19th century brownstone rowhouses that line the streets of Brooklyn Heights. Your guide, Marty Shore, will point out design highlights - Tiffany windows, a fragment of Plymouth Rock - and fill you in on the neighborhood's colorful history.

Can you guess where celebrated writers like Walt Whitman, Arthur Miller and Truman Capote lived and worked? And what about the house that's been both a brothel and a Franciscan monastery? See beautifully preserved examples of different architectural styles, from Greek Revival to Federal to Italianate to Queen Anne to Romanesque . . . . you name it, your Brooklyn Heights ManhattanWalks tour has got it!

The oldest house in Brooklyn Heights.

Former carriage house.