page_title: Brooklyn Heights
section_title: Street names
hierarchical_section_title: Brooklyn Heights / Street names
caption_attribution_description: Grace Court Alley is a cul-de-sac in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City which runs east of Hicks Street. It was originally a mews (a row of stables) for mansions on Remsen and Joralemon Streets, to the north and south of the alley. It is located in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. (Source: AIA Guide to NYC (5th ed.)) This image shows #19 (left), built in 1905, and #21 (right), built c.1900. (Source: NYC GIS map)
context_page_description: Brooklyn Heights is an affluent residential neighborhood within the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Old Fulton Street near the Brooklyn Bridge on the north, Cadman Plaza West on the east, Atlantic Avenue on the south, and the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway or the East River on the west. Adjacent neighborhoods are Dumbo to the north, Downtown Brooklyn to the east, and Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill to the south.
  Originally referred to as Brooklyn Village, it has been a prominent area of Brooklyn since 1834. The neighborhood is noted for its low-rise architecture and its many brownstone rowhouses, most of them built prior to the Civil War. It also has an abundance of notable churches and other religious institutions. Brooklyn's first art gallery, the Brooklyn Arts Gallery, was opened in Brooklyn Heights in 1958. In 1965, a large part of Brooklyn Heights was protected from unchecked development by the creation of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, the first such district in New York City. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
context_section_description: Many of the streets in Brooklyn Heights are named after people who figured prominently in the neighborhood's history.
  Adams Street – John Adams, second President of the United States; originally named "Congress Street"
  Aitken Place – Monsignor Ambrose Aitken of St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Church
  Cadman Plaza – Samuel Parkes Cadman, pastor of the Central Congregational Church
  Clark Street – William Clark, ship's captain
  Clinton Street – DeWitt Clinton, mayor of New York City, governor of New York state, three time Presidential candidate
  College Place – named after the Brooklyn Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies (1829-1842); the building became the Mansion House Hotel in 1875
  Court Street – renamed from "George Street" in 1835, even though there were no courts nearby
  Doughty Street – Charles Doughty, 18th century lawyer, helped create the Village of Brooklyn
  Elizabeth Place – Elizabeth Cornell, built the first Pierrepont mansion
  Fulton Street, Old Fulton Street – Robert Fulton, introduced steam ferry service between Brooklyn Heights and Manhattan; Old Fulton Street was originally to have been named "Kings Highway", and Fulton Street was "Main Street"
  Furman Street – William Furman, state legislator
  Garden Place – originally part of Philip Livingston's garden
  Grace Court, Grace Court Alley – named after Grace Church
  Henry Street – Dr. Thomas Henry, president of the Kings County Medical Society
  Hicks Street – John and Jacob Hicks, 17th century ferry operators
  Hunts Lane – John Hunt, early purchaser of land from Hezekiah Pierrepont
  Joralemon Street – Teunis Joralemon, saddle maker
  Livingston Street – Philip Livingston, the only signer of the Declaration of Independence who was from Brooklyn
  Middagh Street – the Middaghs, a pre-Revolutionary War family
  Monroe Place – James Monroe, fifth President of the United States; the widest street in Brooklyn Heights
  Montague Street – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English feminist and activist for smallpox inoculation, a member of the Pierrepont family; originally named "Constable Street" after Anna Marie Constable Pierrepoint
  Pierrepont Street, Pierrepont Place – Hezekiah Pierrepoint, the "founder" of Brooklyn Heights
  Remsen Street – Henry Remsen, son of Ram Jensen Vanderbeeck, a 17th-century blacksmith
  Schermerhorn Street – Peter and Andrew Schermerhorn, merchants and landowners
  Sidney Place – Sir Philip Sidney; originally "Monroe Place" until 1853
  Tillary Street – James Tillary, who worked on finding a cure for yellow fever
  Concerning the "fruit streets" in Brooklyn Heights – Cranberry, Orange and Pineapple Streets – the WPA Guide to New York City reports that before the Civil War, these streets, along with Poplar and Willow Streets, were named after prominent families, but that a member of the Middagh family expressed her dislike of these families by replacing the street signs with botanical names.  The city would restore the proper names, and Middagh would put back her own signs.  Several iterations of this game ended when Middagh's new names were given official status by a resolution of the alderman. In Historically Speaking, Brooklyn borough historian John B. Manbeck says only that these street names "have questionable origins," as does Love Lane, which reputedly gets its name from the meetings that took place there between a pretty girl who lived nearby and her suitors.
caption: Grace Court Alley, a mews converted into residences
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