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Brooklyn Heights, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 1558
Housing Units (2000): 607
Land area (2000): 1.773065 sq. miles (4.592218 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.773065 sq. miles (4.592218 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09274
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.417153 N, 81.672203 W
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Brooklyn Heights, MO -- U.S. town in Missouri
Population (2000): 125
Housing Units (2000): 53
Land area (2000): 0.119436 sq. miles (0.309337 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.119436 sq. miles (0.309337 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08776
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.169026 N, 94.386404 W
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Brooklyn Heights

Brooklyn Heights is an affluent residential neighborhood within the New York City borough of Brooklyn. 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. The neighborhood stretches from Old Fulton Street near the Brooklyn Bridge south to Atlantic Avenue and from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to Court Street and Cadman Plaza West. Adjacent neighborhoods are Dumbo, Downtown Brooklyn, Cobble Hill, and Boerum Hill. Columbia Heights, an upscale six-block-long street next to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, is sometimes considered to be its own neighborhood.

As of 2000, Brooklyn Heights had a population of 22,594 people. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 2, and is served by the 84th Precinct of the New York City Police Department at 301 Gold Street in nearby Downtown Brooklyn. Fire services from the Fire Department of New York City come from Engine Company 205 and Ladder Company 118 at 74 Middagh Street, Engine Company 207 and Ladder Company 110 at 172 Tillary Street, and Engine Company 224 at 274 Hicks Street.

Brooklyn Heights (disambiguation)

Brooklyn Heights is the name of a neighborhood in New York City.

Brooklyn Heights may also refer to several other places in the United States:

  • Brooklyn Heights Historic District, overlapping historic district in Brooklyn Heights
  • Brooklyn Heights, Missouri, village in Jasper County, Missouri
  • Brooklyn Heights, Ohio, village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
  • Brooklyn Heights, Los Angeles

It may also refer to these books:

  • Brooklyn Heights (book)
  • Brooklyn Heights: A Personal Memoir
Brooklyn Heights (book)

Brooklyn Heights is the fourth novel by Egyptian writer Miral al-Tahawy. It was shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize for 2011 and won the 2010 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature The novel, released in Arabic in 2010, was published in an English translation by Sameh Salim from the American University in Cairo Press the following year. Al-Tahawy holds a doctorate in Arabic literature from Cairo University and teaches at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona.

Miral Al-Tahawy, a member of the Al-Hanadi tribe, grew up in a conservative Bedouin village in the eastern Nile Delta. Although "Brooklyn Heights" takes place in the present day, soon after President Obama’s election in 2008, her family life and the influence of Bedouin tribal customs, are told in flashbacks. The highly autobiographical novel relates the emigrant experience in New York City of an Egyptian Bedouin woman and her son.

Usage examples of "brooklyn heights".

Stranded within their last line of fortifications on Brooklyn Heights, they had the East River at their back.

The young professionals walked past-wearing running shoes with their suits and dresses-on their way to Wall Street from Brooklyn Heights.

Immediately after the arrival of the British, I was sent by Putnam to every one of our outposts from the Brooklyn Heights to the Haarlem Heights.

Georges Tarras went with me to visit the woman painter in Brooklyn Heights who looked so much like Charmian Page.

I wouldn't have ever been as much in Brooklyn Heights as I am now.

When the remaining American army fell back to the defenses on Brooklyn Heights, General Howe, remembering the cost of his assault on Bunker Hill, chose not to press the attack, then or the following day.

I've got a date with a lady out in Brooklyn Heights tonight and I just may not make it home.

Marcella was continually bailing him out of jail and taking him home to their Brooklyn Heights apartment, where she would stroke his battered head as he whimpered for his dead father.

Selig was living in Brooklyn Heights, on Pierrepont Street, commuting several days a week to the lower Fifth Avenue office of a publishing company for which he was doing freelance copy-editing at $3 an hour.

The woman who had drunk herself into a vermouth-inspired stupor that night and then drove home to her converted loft apartment in the Brooklyn Heights and cried herself to sleep and stayed, aching, in that bed for three whole days, nursing the horrible knowledge she had like a disease.