Brooklyn Heights
By Evan Hughes - Book Beast, August 31, 2011
Manhattan has a few serious contenders—Patchin Place, West 10th Street, Washington Square North—but Columbia Heights, a short street in Brooklyn, just might be the most literary street in America. Columbia Heights is the closest street to the water in the quiet, leafy Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, and the authors who have lived there, if they were lucky, enjoyed commanding views of Manhattan’s skyline across the East River.
Evan Hughes is the author of Literary Brooklyn: The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life. He lives in Brooklyn.
Manhattan has a few serious contenders—Patchin Place, West 10th Street, Washington Square North—but Columbia Heights, a short street in Brooklyn, just might be the most literary street in America. Columbia Heights is the closest street to the water in the quiet, leafy Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, and the authors who have lived there, if they were lucky, enjoyed commanding views of Manhattan’s skyline across the East River.
Evan Hughes is the author of Literary Brooklyn: The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life. He lives in Brooklyn.
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