Brooklyn Heights: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of America's First Suburb - Hardcover

Furman, Robert

 
9781540213716: Brooklyn Heights: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of America's First Suburb
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1540213714 ISBN 13: 9781540213716
Verlag: History Press, 2015

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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.
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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Robert Furman is the president of the Brooklyn Preservation Council Foundation. Since 2001, he has also worked as executive director of Old Stone House, president and founder of Brooklyn Heritage, Inc., and president of Four Borough Neighborhood Preservation Alliance. In addition, he is an active member of the Society of Old Brooklynites and the Bay Ridge Historical Society.





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Verlag
History Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1540213714
ISBN 13 
9781540213716
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
482
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