It is surronded on the east by Court St, on the west by the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, on the south by Atlantic Avenue, and on the north by the Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Heights occupies a bluff that rises sharply from the river's edge and gradually recedes on the landward side. Before the Dutch settled on Long Island in the middle of the seventeenth century, this promontory was called Ihpetonga ("the high sandy bank") by the Canarsie Indians.
Brooklyn Heights, as of 2000, has a population of 22,493 people
It is historically descended from the old Town of Brooklyn.
It was the first neighborhood protected by the 1965 Landmarks Preservation Law of New York City.
BrooklynHeights, bounded by the East River, Fulton Street, Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, is an old, distinctive residential quarter, famous in Victorian days for its churches and its clergymen.
The Heights section occupies a bluff that rises sharply from the river's edge and gradually recedes on the landward side.
Late in the nineteenth century BrooklynHeights was an aristocratic neighborhood whose residents set the tone in manners and customs for the elite of the entire city.
It is surrounded on the east by Court St and Cadman Plaza, on the west by the BrooklynHeights Promenade, on the south by Atlantic Avenue, and on the north by the Brooklyn Bridge.
It is the part of Brooklyn closest to Downtown Manhattan, directly across the East River, and easily accessible via the Brooklyn Bridge and multiple subway lines.
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