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Brooklyn Heights is a residential neighborhood within the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Old Fulton Street near the Brooklyn Bridge on the north, Cadman Plaza West on the east, Atlantic Avenue on the south, and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway or the East River on the west. Adjacent neighborhoods are Dumbo to the north, Downtown Brooklyn to the east, and Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill to the south.
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 rowhouses, 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.
Directly across the East River from Manhattan and connected to it by subways and regular ferry service, Brooklyn Heights 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.
Brooklyn Heights is part of Brooklyn Community District 2, and its primary ZIP Code is 11201. It is patrolled by the 84th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. The New York City Fire Department operates two fire stations near Brooklyn Heights: Engine Company 205/Ladder Company 118 at 74 Middagh Street, and Engine Company 224 at 274 Hicks Street.
Notable people with ties to Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, from Wikipedia:
- W. H. Auden (1907-1973), poet, lived with Benjamin Britten and Carson McCullers at 7 Middagh Street
- Tyra Banks (born 1973), television personality, producer, author, actress, and former model
- Javier Bardem (born 1969), actor
- Alfred Smith Barnes (1817-1888), publisher and philanthropist
- Haley Bennett (born 1988), actress, singer and dancer
- Matthew Barney (born 1967), artist
- John R. Bartels (1897-1997), United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), clergyman, social reformer and abolitionist
- Edet Belzberg, documentary filmmaker who won a 2005 MacArthur Fellowship
- Paul Bettany (born 1971), actor
- Morton Birnbaum (1926-2005), lawyer and physician who advocated for the right of psychiatric patients to have adequate, humane care, and who coined the term sanism
- Björk (born 1965), musician
- Alexis Bledel (born 1981), actress
- Emily Blunt (born 1983), actress
- Lee Breuer (1937-2021), playwright and theater director
- Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), composer, lived with W. H. Auden and Carson McCullers at 7 Middagh Street
- Matthew Broderick (born 1962), actor
- Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), Nobel Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate
- Gabriel Byrne (born 1950), actor
- Truman Capote (1924-1984), author, lived at 70 Willow Street
- Ron Chernow (born 1949), Pulitzer prize-winning author and historian
- Peggy Clark (1915-1996), lighting designer, costume designer and set designer
- Jennifer Connelly (born 1970), actress
- Barbara Cooney (1917-2000), writer and illustrator
- Hart Crane (1899-1932), poet
- Scott Crary (born 1978), director and producer
- Penélope Cruz (born 1974), actress
- Matt Damon (born 1970), actor
- Pete Davidson (born 1993), stand-up comedian
- Adam Driver (born 1983), actor who appeared as Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy
- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, author and editor
- Lena Dunham (born 1986), actress, writer and director
- Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005), author
- Bonnie Erickson (born 1941), designer of puppets, costumes, toys, and graphics, best known for her work with Jim Henson and The Muppets where her creations include Miss Piggy
- William Everdell (born 1941), historian, author and teacher
- Abram Fitkin (1878-1933), investment banker and philanthropist
- Tom Frieden, infectious disease and public health expert, who was director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Elizabeth Gaffney (born 1966), novelist
- Jason Gedrick (born 1965), actor
- Paul Giamatti (born 1967), actor
- Hetty Green (1834-1916), businesswoman known for both her wealth and her miserliness
- Lucas Hedges (born 1996), actor
- Peter Hedges (born 1962), novelist, playwright, screenwriter and film director
- Jack Holland (1947-2004), journalist, novelist and poet who chronicled "The Troubles" in his native Northern Ireland
- Alice Recknagel Ireys (1911-2000), landscape architect
- Thomas Kail (born 1977), film director
- Vincent Kartheiser (born 1979), actor
- John Krasinski (born 1979), actor
- Clay Lancaster (1917-2000), authority on American architecture and an influential advocate of historical preservation
- Amy Lee (born 1981) singer and musician
- Utrice Leid (born c. 1953), journalist who was the managing editor of The City Sun and general manager of New York radio station WBAI
- Philip Levine (1928-2015), poet
- Joe Lhota (born 1954), public servant and a former politician, who served as the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
- Grace Denio Litchfield (1849-1944), poet and novelist
- Philip Livingston (1716-1778), one of New York's four signers of the United States Declaration of Independence
- H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), short-story writer, editor, novelist and poet
- James Lyons (1960-2007), film editor, screenwriter and actor who frequently collaborated with * Todd Haynes
- Norman Mailer (1923-2007), novelist
- Norris Church Mailer (1949-2010), author who was the wife of Norman Mailer
- Carson McCullers (1917-1967), writer, lived with W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten at 7 Middagh Street
- Arthur Miller (1915-2005), playwright, essayist
- Henry Miller (1891-1980), author
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), a cousin of the Pierrepont family, best remembered for bringing the concept of inoculation against smallpox to the attention of the British public; Montague Street was named after her
- Mary Tyler Moore (1936-2017), actress
- Errol Morris (born 1948), film director
- Gary Oldman (born 1958), English actor and filmmaker
- Mary-Louise Parker (born 1964), actress and writer
- Sarah Jessica Parker (born 1965), actress
- Joseph Pennell (1857-1926), painter
- Hezekiah Pierrepont (1768-1838), merchant, farmer, landowner and land developer in Brooklyn and New York State
- Suzanne Pleshette (1937-2008), actress and voice actress
- John Podhoretz (born 1961), commentator
- Ernest Poole (1880-1950), novelist
- James Purdy (1914-2009), novelist, short-story writer, poet and playwright
- Vasant Rai (1942-1985), musician
- Marky Ramone (born 1952), former drummer of punk rock band the Ramones
- Noel Rockmore (1928-1995), American painter, draughtsman, and sculptor
- John A. Roebling (1806-1869), civil engineer and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge
- John A. Roebling II (1867-1952), engineer and philanthropist
- Washington Roebling (1837-1926), civil engineer best known for his work on the Brooklyn Bridge, son of John Roebling
- Theodore Roosevelt IV (born 1942), investment banker and managing director at Barclays Investment Bank
- Keri Russell (born 1976), actress
- Amy Ryan (born 1969), actress
- Matthew Rhys (born 1974), actor
- Mia Sara (born 1967), actress
- Amy Schumer (born 1981), comedian and actress
- Louis Sheaffer (1912-1993), journalist and author who was awarded the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his biography of Eugene O'Neill
- Alexander Skarsgard (born 1976), actor
- Oliver Smith (1918-1984), stage designer, owned 60 Willow Street
- Peter Steele (1962-2010), musician, ex-Brooklyn Heights Promenade park supervisor
- Dan Stevens (born 1982), actor
- William C. Thompson (1924-2018), New York State Senator and Justice of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
- Sigrid Undset (1882-1949), Norwegian author who resided in the U.S. in exile during World War II
- John Utendahl (born 1962), owner of the Utendahl Group, one of the largest African American-owned investment banking groups in the United States
- Andrew VanWyngarden (born 1983), musician, MGMT
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892), poet and editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
- Bill W. (1895-1971 as William Griffith Wilson), co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous in a town house at 182 Clinton Street
- Michelle Williams (born 1980), actress
- Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938), novelist
- Joe Wright (born 1972), English film director
- David Yassky (born 1964), Dean Emeritus of Pace University School of Law
- Adam Yauch (1964-2012), founding member of the Beastie Boys
- Thaddeus Young (born 1988), power forward for the Indiana Pacers
- Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978), poet