146-148 HICKS STREET, Brooklyn Heights

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Brooklyn Heights was NYC’s first suburb and in 1965 it was designated as the first Landmarked neighborhood by the fledgling NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. It is situated on bluffs that rise steeply above New York Bay. By the 1820s, fueled by traffic across the East River in the new steamboats, what was originally “Brooklyn Village” [...]

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