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Brooklyn Heights is a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
It is surronded on the east by Court St, on the west by the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, on the south by Atlantic Avenue, and on the north by the Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Heights occupies a bluff that rises sharply from the river's edge and gradually recedes on the landward side. Before the Dutch settled on Long Island in the middle of the seventeenth century, this promontory was called Ihpetonga ("the high sandy bank") by the Canarsie Indians.
Brooklyn Heights, as of 2000, has a population of 22,493 people
It is historically descended from the old Town of Brooklyn.
It was the first neighborhood protected by the 1965 Landmarks Preservation Law of New York City.
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims is in Brooklyn Heights as is St Ann's Church, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site
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