Brooklyn Heights — Borough Hall to Plymouth Church · 12 stops
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Brooklyn Heights — Borough Hall to Plymouth Church
Midtown, New York
12 stops · ~16 min
About 50 min walk · 12 stories · Free
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Start: Brooklyn Borough Hall — —
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Twelve stories from Borough Hall to Plymouth Church — the Montague Street churches, the first historic district, Roebling's window and Truman Capote's house.
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Brooklyn Borough Hall
The city hall of a city that vanished
2
Center for Brooklyn History
Eight faces watching Pierrepont Street
3
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity
America's first great set of figural stained glass
4
Grace Church
A Gothic church and its hidden sky of stars
5
58 Joralemon Street
The brownstone that's really a subway vent
6
New York's First Historic District
The neighborhood that saved itself
7
Hotel St. George
Once the biggest hotel in New York
8
The Fruit Streets
Orange, Pineapple, Cranberry: a street-sign rebellion
9
Roebling's Window
The bridge builder who watched through a telescope
10
Truman Capote's House on Willow Street
Breakfast at Tiffany's, written in the basement
11
Lincoln's Pew and Beecher Garden
Where Lincoln sat before Cooper Union
12
Plymouth Church
The Sunday a congregation bought a child's freedom
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