Ep 11 Brooklyn Heights - STREETS BY AIR - 4K Drone New York City Aerial - Fall in NY, Autumn Aerials

The beautiful Brooklyn Heights. Since 1834, this neighborhood has been a special area of the borough, originally referred to as Brooklyn Village.
Low-rise architecture, specifically the many pre-Civil War brownstones and rowhouses, line the blocks. It is the home of the first art gallery in #Brooklyn, the sightseeing Promenade, and the site of many old and notable religious/educational institutions.
Brooklyn Heights occupies a plateau on a high bluff that rises sharply from the river's edge, known to the Lenape Natives as "Ihpetonga", or "the high sandy bank". Ferries travelling across the East River were running as early as 1642, helping the lowland area to thrive, especially the farms and factories.
With the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883, and the subway line in 1908, the neighborhood's development took rise. It was advertised as the"first commuter suburb" for Manhattanites, being easier and faster to get to Manhattan by ferry than it was to commute from upper Manhattan.
"The resulting ease of transportation into the neighborhood and the perceived loss of the specialness and 'quality' began to drive out the merchants and patricians who lived there; in time their mansions were divided to become apartment houses and boarding houses. Artists began to move into the neighborhood, as well as writers, and a number of large hotels were constructed."
Throughout the 1800s, Brooklyn Heights remained an elegant neighborhood, and became Brooklyn's cultural and financial center. By the mid-1950s, a new generation of property owners had begun moving into the Heights, pioneering the "Brownstone Revival" by buying and renovating pre-Civil War period houses.
As a result, preservationists worked to protect the neighborhood from unchecked development by the creation of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, the first such district in New York City.
This preservation was cemented in the following decades by the growing gentrification of the neighborhood into a "firmly middle-class area"; a home to local shops, eateries, bars, schools, and friendly neighbors, making it known as "one of New York City's most pleasant and attractive neighborhoods."

[@phillipmontano7664]

After all this time the Brooklyn Bridge is still awesome

[@xevious2501]

Brooklyn has a beauty like few places. Specific times during each year when the sun rises and cuts through the trees and the leaves, showering the scenery like a cherished oil painting. What you see isnt new. Brooklyn has been this and more for generations. keep in mind that this is the borough that only a few decades ago, cab drivers in manhattan would not take passengers too. To most New Yorkers Brooklyn was the Brown borough, the black borough the borough with ethnicity. And it was snubbed at. But we didnt care, because we had it all and then some. Brooklyn was a wealth of culture of neighborhoods and dialects, of immigrants, foods and flavors that manhattan in all its glory could not match.

[@42luke93]

Every time it feels like a cloudy place there. Could be due to the buildings.

[@arten12xt]

Another cool stuff

[@phillipmontano7664]

I don't pretend to know everything about new York but Brooklyn looks nice nice classic buildings that look pretty well maintained no litter nice streets nice trees looks peaceful but like I said I don't know everything about new York but this part of Brooklyn looks really nice

[@mistermilkman]

U should see parts of Midwood, the homes r huge & beautiful.

[@jimbo1637]

This is definitely one of the nicest areas in the city. Brooklyn Heights has been a popular neighborhood among wealthy people who work in lower Manhattan for more than 200 years since it's right across the river. Many gorgeous old homes in the neighborhood.

[@cindyalmughrabi4192]

Great Flat

[@hillock10]

The population density here looks amazing. How could people live in such a packed environment? Where do you park your cars? Where is your garage or your yard? Where can you grill a burger in your yard?

[@jamrollz]

How do people live in the suburbs, wheres the theatre, the art gallery, parks full of people, or six figure jobs?

[@hillock10]

@@jamrollz Are you kidding? Many suburbs have superb theatres, huge parks and bike trails, tons of restaurants, places to fish and boating.

[@paxundpeace9970]

@@hillock10 after and endless 30 miles drive

[@42luke93]

@@hillock10 I agree, The regal theatre here is such garbage compared to Staten Island. All they do is collect money there.

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