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Brooklyn Heights : The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of America's First Suburb by Robert Furman (2015, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherArcadia Publishing

ISBN-101540213714

ISBN-139781540213716

eBay Product ID (ePID)239816978

Product Key Features

Book TitleBrooklyn Heights : the Rise, Fall and Rebirth of America's First Suburb

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicUnited States / State & Local / General, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials)

IllustratorYes

GenrePhotography, History

AuthorRobert Furman

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight28.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal974.723

SynopsisSettled 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. "