Robert Furman’s (with contributions of photographs of historic Brooklyn Heights buildings by Brian Merlis) Brooklyn Heights: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of America’s First Suburb is a massive–471 pages–attempt to encompass all that is significant in the history of our neighborhood. The subtitle provides a narrative arc, though an inverted one. It begins with a […]
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Robert Furman’s Brooklyn Heights is a Trove of Information
By Claude Scales on December 20, 2015 11:05 pm in Architecture, Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, History, Literature
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