Saucy Author Says Brooklyn Heights is Sexy
Michelle Haimoff, author of Secret New York: Exploring the City’s Hidden Neighborhoods
New York Times City Room: I know you asked about Manhattan, but I find the row houses in Brooklyn Heights to be exceedingly charming (and the neighborhood is only a five minute subway ride from Wall Street). With hundreds of houses that date from 1820 to the Civil War, the Heights became the first area to be designated a historic district by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966. The streets are largely residential, and I challenge you not to fantasize about owning one of the mansions on Pierrepont Street or Pierrepont Place. While you’re there, stroll the Promenade where Diane Keaton and Woody Allen gazed at the Manhattan skyline from a bench in the eponymous movie. Just make sure to download “Rhapsody in Blue” onto your iPod first.
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Posted : May 21st, 2008 at 8:56 pm by Homer Fink under Brooklyn Heights.
Tags:11201, michelle haimoff, new york city's hidden neighborhoods, new york times city room
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Comment from Sidney Bechet
Time: May 21, 2008, 9:34 pm
I’m glad the author likes Brooklyn Heights and all, but she’s got her Woody Allen movies all wrong. The scene from “Manhattan” she references was shot along Sutton Place, and not the Promenade. Diane and Woody are gazing upon the Queensboro Bridge, not the Manhattan skyline. How she could confuse the Queensboro Bridge for the Brooklyn Bridge, I don’t know. Maybe she’s from upstate. Nevertheless, Woody does walk along the Promenade with Louise Lasser in one of the final scenes of “Bananas.”
Comment from CJP
Time: May 21, 2008, 9:50 pm
All due respect to the headline writer. Didn’t the article say that she found “Brooklyn Heights exceedingly charming” not “sexy” as in the headline?
Comment from Jonas Von Groucheau
Time: May 21, 2008, 9:53 pm
Picky aren’t we.
Comment from Jack Teagarden
Time: May 21, 2008, 11:20 pm
Thanks Mr Bechet 1) for correcting the glaring errors in the piece, and
2) for reminding this old man of the monster crush he had for Louise Lasser.
Comment from Billy Reno
Time: May 22, 2008, 9:22 am
We the people make it charming. Ricky’s makes it sexy.
Comment from val
Time: May 22, 2008, 11:41 am
Brooklyn Heights is a “secret?” A “hidden neighborhood?”
Comment from nabeguy
Time: May 22, 2008, 12:45 pm
Yeah, hidden, as in the “on the other side of the bridge”
Comment from Michelle Haimoff
Time: May 23, 2008, 12:58 pm
Thank you for the mention on your fantastic website Homer, you’ve just gained another reader.
And of course Sidney, you are right about the scene in Manhattan. I asked the Times to add a correction (I even tried to have them link to this site).
I’m not from upstate NY, but considering that I confused my Woody Allen movies, it’s a fair question. I will watch every Woody Allen movie back to back twice so I never confuse them again.
Your fellow enthralled New Yorker,
Michelle
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