Brooklyn: the Heights and DUMBO
The Brooklyn Heights Promenade with its view of Manhattan, old waterfront warehouses, a 1922 carousel, the abolitionists’ church and the landing Washington retreated from in 1776.
10 places
Brooklyn Borough Hall
The city hall that ran the separate City of Brooklyn for half a century, until it became part of New York
Brooklyn Heights Promenade
A walkway on the roof of a highway, with a view of Manhattan protected by law
Center for Brooklyn History
An 1881 historical society building whose facade shows a Native American, a Viking, Columbus, and Beethoven
Empire Stores
Among the last of the warehouses that earned Brooklyn the nickname “the walled city”
Fulton Ferry Landing
For almost three hundred years a ferry ran from here to Manhattan, and from here Washington’s army slipped away by night
Jane’s Carousel
A 1922 wooden carousel that one woman spent more than twenty years restoring
Manhattan Bridge View from Washington Street
Dumbo’s most famous view: a bridge tower framed by an old factory street
Plymouth Church
The church of the preacher Henry Ward Beecher, one of the great centers of the fight against slavery
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
A Gothic church with the Bolton brothers’ windows, among the first pictorial stained glass made in America
Truman Capote’s House
Where Truman Capote finished “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”