Brooklyn Heights Fruit Street Sitting Area

Fruit Street Sitting Area is a tiny pocket park in Brooklyn Heights offering one of the most extraordinary hidden views in the borough: a direct sightline through the Brooklyn Bridge's stone archway toward the Manhattan skyline.

Brooklyn Heights is the first designated historic district in New York City (1965), preserving a collection of Federal, Greek Revival, and Brownstone row houses that represent the finest residential architecture of 19th-century Brooklyn.

The neighborhood's position on a bluff above the East River has made it one of the most desirable residential areas in Brooklyn since the early 19th century. Walt Whitman, Truman Capote, Arthur Miller, and Norman Mailer all lived here.

Brooklyn Heights was the site of George Washington's headquarters during the Battle of Brooklyn in August 1776, the first major engagement of the Revolutionary War after the Declaration of Independence.

This tiny sitting area provides an intimate encounter with one of the most iconic views in Brooklyn, a secret vantage point where the Brooklyn Bridge's massive stone tower fills the frame of a narrow street.