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

Furman, Robert

 
9781626199545: Brooklyn Heights: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of America's First Suburb
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ISBN 10: 162619954X ISBN 13: 9781626199545
Casa editrice: History Pr, 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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Editore
History Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2015
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
162619954X
ISBN 13 
9781626199545
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
478
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
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9781540213716: Brooklyn Heights: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of America's First Suburb

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ISBN 10:  1540213714 ISBN 13:  9781540213716
Casa editrice: History Press, 2015
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