Brooklyn
Sublets in Brooklyn Heights
Historic & hushed
America's first suburb, and still the quietest place you can live one subway stop from Wall Street. Federal and Greek Revival houses on streets named after fruit, and a promenade with the best free view of Manhattan anywhere.
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What's in Brooklyn Heights
Names a local would drop, and what each one actually is. Tap any to see it on a map.
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Brooklyn Heights Promenade
A third of a mile of cantilevered walkway with the whole of Lower Manhattan in front of it. The best free view in the city.
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Brooklyn Bridge Park
Piers turned into lawns, courts and a carousel, running along the water underneath the Heights.
shopping
Montague Street
The neighborhood's high street: bookshops, old-school restaurants and not a chain in sight for most of it.
culture
Plymouth Church
A stop on the Underground Railroad where Henry Ward Beecher preached abolition to overflowing crowds.
food
Atlantic Avenue
Middle Eastern groceries and bakeries that have been on this stretch for generations, at the southern edge.
What Brooklyn Heights is like
Dining
Montague Street for the everyday, Atlantic Avenue at the southern edge for Middle Eastern food that has been there for generations.
Nightlife
Genuinely quiet. A few old bars; everything else is a short walk into Downtown Brooklyn or Cobble Hill.
Green space
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Cadman Plaza Park, and the Promenade itself.
Getting around
- 23Clark St
- 45Borough Hall
- RCourt St
- ACFJay St-MetroTech
8subway lines
Why people sublet here
- The Promenade and its skyline view
- The city's first historic district, almost entirely intact
- One stop to Lower Manhattan, two to Midtown
- Brooklyn Bridge Park along the waterfront below