Brooklyn Heights (Brooklyn, NY )– The Origin of This Neighborhood's Name
A combination of Dutch, British and the last Ice Age, helped to create the name Brooklyn Heights.
After the Ice Age, melting ice was trapped by the hills for thousands of years. When the water broke through, a swath was cut, creating the Narrows, Upper New York Bay, the East River, the Harlem River and Long Island Sound.
The Indigenous people who lived in the area called it Ihpetonga, “high sandy bluff.” We know it as the heights.
The Dutch came to settle in the New World, but some preferred the narrowest part of the East River, rather than hilly Manhattan, it was flatter, the land was more fertile for farming and the waters for fishing and transporting their produce.
At first known as Clover Hill for the thick trees found there, but soon the name Bruijkleen Colonie was given to this section of land, amongst the first settlers. This village or colonie came to be known as Breuckelen from 1646, and then became Brookland, close to the Dutch pronunciation Brooklane.
It was not until the end of the 19th century, the name settled into present day Brooklyn.
Hezekiah Beers Pierpont and Robert Fulton established a steam powered Ferry company in 1814, and the greater accessibility to Brooklyn Heights, called “America's first commuter suburb.”
The Brooklyn Bridge opened in 1883 and brought more people to Brooklyn.
In 1950 the southern half of the Brooklyn Heights promenade opened and the northern half opened in 1951.
In 1965 the Landmark Preservation law of 1965 made Brooklyn Heights the first neighborhood designated as a historical district and legally protected from development.
This district is bounded by Cadman Plaza West and Old Fulton Street on the north, the Brooklyn, Queens Expressway on the west and Atlantic Avenue on the south.
Brooklyn Heights itself spans from Old Fulton Street near the Brooklyn Bridge south to Atlantic Avenue and from the BQE to Court Street and Cadman Plaza West.
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