Touring Brooklyn Heights

We spent a few hours walking around and getting lost in the Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. Beautiful area with tree-lined streets covered in colorful leaves this time of year since it is Autumn. You can see in some of the photos in this group the beautiful colors of Fall.

We made our way down to the promenade which was built because the people living in the heights did not want an expressway in their area causing traffic congestion and noise, and of course would not be esthetically pleasing (geez people with money). I guess we should be glad they got their way, because the promenade is really an oasis on the waterfront with amazing views back to Manhattan. It also seems to be a place where dog walkers gather (and there were a lot of them). Not sure how that guy with all those dogs keeps them straight, behaved and moving forward. I have enough trouble with Buster, can’t image 20 of him at one time…

The east coast churches are beautiful inside and out due to their age and the architecture types they were built under. I find them so much more interesting than the modern churches today.

During our Brooklyn Heights Tour, we passed 70 Willow Street. Truman Capote lived in the bottom floor for ten years (1955-1965). While there, he wrote 'Breakfast at Tiffany’s' and 'In Cold Blood', his most famous works. The house was owned by his friend Oliver Smith, who he got drunk on martini’s one night and convinced him he should live there. He wrote a minor work about his time in Brooklyn called 'House On The Heights', which opens with “I live in Brooklyn by choice”.

When Oliver would go away, Truman would throw parties at the residence and tell everyone he owned the house.Read more