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Fascinating Vintage Photos of Brooklyn Heights in 1958 that capture Street Scenes and Everyday Life

Brooklyn Heights is an affluent residential neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City that lies just one subway stop from Manhattan and at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge. This area is known for its stunning architecture and its many brownstone rowhouses, most of them built before the Civil War. The streets are lined with lovingly restored row houses, thoughtfully curated stores, innovative restaurants, historic brownstones, mansions, and unique views of Lower Manhattan’s skyscrapers from the promenade. Brooklyn Heights gives the most wonderful view of Lower New York and the Statue of Liberty.

The completion of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 made the neighborhood more accessible from places such as Manhattan. The Heights’ huge mansions were torn down and replaced with apartment buildings.

Here below are some stunning vintage photos that show street scenes and everyday life in Brooklyn Heights in the 1950s.

#2 An Eisenhower-Nixon billboard at the corner of Cranberry and Fulton Streets in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#3 Girls jump and play on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#4 Customers dine in Joe’s Restaurant on Fulton Street in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#5 Cats in an alleyway in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#6 A carriage house built around 1876 at 151 Willow Street, in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#7 A father and daughter watch construction in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#8 A father and daughter walk near Clark Street in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#9 A waiter and customers at Joe’s Restaurant on Fulton Street in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#10 The Hotel Bossert, at 98 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#11 Joe’s Restaurant on Fulton Street in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#12 Jerry’s Barber Shop, at 15 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#13 Cars parked along the Promenade in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#14 Shipworkers on the Brooklyn Waterfront, in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#15 Men gather on a street corner in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#16 A young girl smiles at a horse that is delivering plants in in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#17 People sit on the Promenade in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#18 Commuters enter a subway station in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#19 An ethnically diverse group of young boys enjoy the animals in the window of Boro Pet Center at 78 Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#20 Barber Jerry talks to a delivery man outside Jerry’s Barber Shop, at 15 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#21 A sanitation worker collects garbage in Brooklyn Heights, 1958.

#22 An ethnically diverse group of school children on Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#23 Author, sociologist, historian and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois with his wife author, playwright, composer, and activist Shirley Graham Du Bois at their home at 31 Grace Court in Brooklyn Heights in 1958

#24 People sit on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, with a view of the Manhattan skyline, in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#25 A a man walks in the rain on Clark Street in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#26 Kids play near and in the East River with a view of the Manhattan skyline in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#27 Kids in Brooklyn Heights with the Brooklyn Bridge behind them, March 1958.

#29 Children play on a stoop in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#30 People linger behind the Henry Ward Beecher Monument, 1958.

#31 A shoe shine and repair sign on the corner of Orange and Henry Streets in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#32 A construction worker takes a cigarette break on a building-in-progress in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#33 The corner of Fulton and Front Streets, including the diner Stanley’s Lunch, with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background, March 1958.

#34 Couples dance at a nightclub in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#35 Aerial view of the historic Fulton Ferry Fireboat House, built in 1926 and now an ice cream parlor in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#36 Men make delivery near construction site in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#37 A homeless man sleeps in front of Joe’s Restaurant on Fulton Street in Brooklyn Heights in March 1958.

#38 Men socialize outside the Robert Fulton Civic League in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#39 A young girl runs with a balloon on Love Lane in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#40 Clothes hang on a clothesline next to P.C. Herwig Co. Square Knotting Design, in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#41 A baby carriage idles outside Kelly’s Bar, at 13 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#42 A view of the Manhattan skyline from the waterfront in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#43 Three young African American boys enjoy the animals in the window of Boro Pet Center in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#44 A young woman with a stroller on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, March 1958.

#45 Hotel Margaret in Brooklyn Heights in Orage Street, March 1958.

#47 Patrons drink, dine, and dance at a nightclub in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#48 People Gather on Stoop in 1950’s Brooklyn Heights.

#49 Children play with construction materials in an alleyway in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#50 A mother and her son on a fire escape in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#51 A newlywed couple kisses at their wedding reception, as their wedding cake is cut in Brooklyn Heights, March 1985.

#52 A boy carrying a newspaper walks by a carriage house, at 31 Pineapple Street, built in the 1880s to serve as a stable for the Brooklyn Fire Department in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#53 An ethnically diverse group of school children do their homework in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#54 A young child watches as a man delivers plants from a horse-drawn carriage in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#55 Young girls stand on a stoop in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#56 Men watch a televised baseball game in a bar in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#57 Two cobblers work inside a shoe repair store in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#58 A woman walks her dogs with an Eisenhower-Nixon billboard in the background in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#59 A car park attendant stands by his hut among many signs in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#60 Legendary antiques dealer George Knapp, a subject of author Truman Capote, helps a customer at Knapp Antiques, at 224 Fulton Street in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#61 Guests at a wedding reception listen to the band in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#62 A view of the waterfront in Brooklyn Heights (now called DUMBO), with a view of the Brooklyn Bridge, March 1958.

#63 Writer Truman Capote poses for a portrait on the waterfront in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#64 A view of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline from the waterfront in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#65 The Brooklyn Heights Promenade in the rain, March 1958.

#66 A view of Love Lane in Brooklyn Heights in March 1958.

#67 The Brooklyn Ice Cream Company, on the waterfront in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#68 Legendary antiques dealer George Knapp, a subject of author Truman Capote, helps a customer at Knapp Antiques, at 224 Fulton Street in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#69 A grocer at J. Ferrara Grocery in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#70 A view of the rear of Truman Capote’s house at 70 Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights in March 1958.

#71 A view of a house in Brooklyn Heights in March 1958.

#72 Waiters and diners during lunch at Joe’s Restaurant, on Fulton Street in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#73 A young boy rides his bicycle in the street in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#74 A view of apartment buildings in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

#75 Soviet historian, Diego Rivera biographer, and founder of the U.S. Communist Party Bertram Wolfe in his apartment at 68 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

Soviet historian, Diego Rivera biographer, and founder of the U.S. Communist Party Bertram Wolfe in his apartment at 68 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, March 1958.

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