For all Brooklyn’s ever growing popularity, you’ve not discovered its true virtues until you’ve taken a stroll around Brooklyn Heights. This small, historic neighbourhood is filled with block after block of picturesque old cobbled streets, over 600 pre-civil war houses and a few mansions that look like they’re come straight off the set of Gone with the Wind. Despite its name, there are very few high-rise buildings in Brooklyn Heights and very few modern eyesores to spoil the view of a perfect promenade in what is often called America’s first suburb.
To find Brooklyn Heights, you leave Manhattan, crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, then simply turn left and walk up the river. While the chief draw here is the iconic promenade (the riverside pedestrian walkway running offering the finest views of the Manhattan skyline) you would be mad not to discover what awaits in the streets behind you. Take a left inland towards the end of the pier (5) onto Joralemon Street and enter the two hundred year-old enclave of Brooklyn Heights…
