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October 14, 2004
Open House: View from Grand Army Plaza - Brooklyn
I live right up the block from this baby, and after missing it last year, I was excited to see my environs from this vantage. This Arch, three blocks, & down about 15 feet from where I live, is situated near the second highest point in Brooklyn (after Battle Hill in Greenwood Cemetary, which is 220ft above sea level). Good reason why my neighborhood is called Prospect Heights, adjacent to Crown Heights (originally Crow Hill), and reason enough to pluck the Brooklyn Museum down there. So the topography adds quite a bit to this vista, and brings the breezes of the ocean into my airshaft studio apartment. Click to Enlarge.
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch (1892)
Downtown Brooklyn over Downtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
Brooklyn Library
Posted by jmarston at October 14, 2004 04:35 PM