Robert Furman: Brooklyn Heights: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of America's First Suburb
Brooklyn Heights: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of America's First Suburb
Buch
- Solo-Instrument: Brian Merlis
- History Press, 07/2015
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781540213716
- Bestellnummer: 11836806
- Umfang: 482 Seiten
- Gewicht: 802 g
- Maße: 237 x 164 mm
- Stärke: 35 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 13.7.2015
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Settled in the 1600s, Brooklyn Heights is one of New York s most historic neighborhoods. Its strategic location overlooking the harbor proved instrumental during the Revolutionary War s Battle of Brooklyn. In the 1830s, steam ferries transformed it into America s first suburb, where abolitionism flourished and one of the largest Civil War Sanitary Fairs was held. Throughout the nineteenth century, wealthy philanthropists and entrepreneurs built high-styled Gothic Revival and Italianate homes and founded many landmark Brooklyn institutions. Though the neighborhood declined with the new century, it became a target of Robert Moses s urban renewal projects in the 1930s. Its designation as the city s first historic district saved Brooklyn Heights, and it has since blossomed into one of the city s most desirable neighborhoods."