Brooklyn Heights has been taken over by celebrities, displacing normal rich people

Brooklyn Heights offers grander architecture and a deterrent to tourist mobs.

Double win.

An amusing article about the history of one of the neighborhood's grandest houses and its link to the camp riot that is the trashy 1970s horror film "The Sentinel".

Has Patty Lane been displaced?

I blame Truman Capote.

....but Patty's only seen the sights a girl can see in Brooklyn Heights.

R3, no, but a hot dog makes her lose control.

One of those celebrities bought my childhood home.

Well, at least the Jehovah Witnesses are gone, I’m sure anyone there will take celebrities over them any day.

[quote]a hot dog makes her lose control

A veritable prototype for your average Datalounger.

A great neighborhood, one of the best. Worth the premium to live there. Great architecture, quiet side streets, glorious views of the Manhattan skyline. If you're forced to use public transportation, every subway line is within walking distance.

Park Slope? Not so much.

Anyone who's ever been in one of these homes can only see how craftsman of the past took pride in their work. The woodwork alone is perfection and sturdy to this day if you maintain it.

craftsmen*

Fewer fags.

R3- I would not be too concerned because a HOT DOG still makes her lose control.

Brooklyn has never been a place for transplants.

I always wondered what the fuck the people who wrote the Patty Duke Show's lyrics were thinking.

Patty's only seen the sights a girl can see from Brooklyn Heights? What, you mean the biggest city in the United States at the time?

A hot dog makes her lose control? Where is she inserting it?

That Patty may live IN the city, she is not OF the city.

R17, yeah, but Brooklyn Heights was notoriously aristocratic on one side and bohemian on the other. Everyone from the Stuyvesants to Arthur Miller and Marylyn Monroe lived there around the time the show was set.

Did the bitch live under her bed?

As was Cobble Hill where Churchill's mother was raised

[quote]its link to the camp riot that is the trashy 1970s horror film "The Sentinel".

In what other film do you get to compare the boobies of Sylvia Miles and Beverly D'Angelo?

R16- New York is STILL the biggest city in the United States- 8.8 million approximately.

Is this area as progressive as Park Slope?

It’s Brooklyn so it’s all pretty progressive but Park Slope has more screeching obnoxious SJW types.

Brooklyn Heights is definitely quieter and more contained than the West Village. I can see why celebrities would prefer it. It really is beautiful.

Have the homeless invaded though? When I worked close to Brooklyn Heights pre-covid, I never saw the homeless bothering anyone in that neighborhood. Maybe a few people asking for change outside the Clark street station but that was really it. They seemed to all congregate around Jay Street-Borough Hall. And the Fulton Mall area. Yeesh.

I wonder if that’s changed at all.

I used to live in BH. The promenade was very cruisy.

Weren’t they completely rebuilding the promenade as it was eventually going to collapse on the BQE? I thought the area was to be in disruption for years?

"Brooklyn Heights has been taken over by celebrities"

Oh, thank god. I hated her on Canada's Drag Race.

Who's the celeb? Tell me it's not Tori Spelling's husband.

It does make sense as a celebrity enclave due to its relative isolation and quiet. Personally, I wouldn’t choose to live out there. Yes, you can always take a subway. But in the West Village you can walk to everything you want and midtown is a 10 minute taxi ride. I found living in Brooklyn was kind of like living in suburbs - always had to allocate a lot of time to getting to “the city” where most of my appointments were - work, medical, social.

Brooklyn isn’t a White Haven like Manhattan or Staten Island. I love the transplants move here thinking it’s all white because TV shows the city like that and they are shocked by POC.

Should have moved to Manhattan baby.