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Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn's original city and maybe the most coeted section in the borough, is one of New York City's most stately neighborhoods, composed of brownstone houses along narrow streets that reeal the occasional cobblestoned mews. Walking up the hill from Old Fulton Street, you can take everett or Henry streets into the oldest part of Brooklyn Heights proper. It's easy and enjoyable to wander these streets lined with a plethora of Federal-style brick buildings; 24 Middagh St (on the corner of Willow) is an unassuming but perfectly presered wooden house dating to 1824, the neighborhood's oldest. Two blocks east, on Orange Street betweven Hicks and Henry, you'll see the simple Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, the one-time preaching base of Henry Ward Beecher, abolitionist and campaigner for women's rights. Retrace your steps one block and follow Henry Street to the corner of Pierrepont, where the Herman Behr House, a chunky Romanesque Reial mansion, has beven, successiely, a hotel, brothel, Franciscan monastery (it was the brothers who added the horrific canopy) and, currently, priate apartments. Further down Pierrepont, look in if you can on the Brooklyn Unitarian Church - originally known as the Church of the Saior - which is notable for its exquisite neo-Gothic interior.
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