Info about the name Prospect Heights

http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=QkVHLzE4ODkvMDMvMTcjQXIwMTcxMA==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

Brilliant.

This neighborhood's ALWAYS been feisty. Love it.

Subject: Wikipedia

glad you liked my research from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Heights%2C_Brooklyn Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prospect_Heights,_Brooklyn&diff=131702161&oldid=129314157

I love that article and will be telling people I live on Prospect Hill from now on.

So I've heard that Aaron Copland went to elementary school at the old PS9, on the NE corner of Vanderbilt and Sterling (now condos). Is that true?

And where was his parents' shop? From the above-referenced wiki:

Throughout his childhood Copland and his family lived above his parents' Brooklyn shop.

i like the prospect hill thing hehe.

I'm confused by some of the responses -- isn't that article about controversy over what to name Park Slope?

qtrain wrote: I'm confused by some of the responses -- isn't that article about controversy over what to name Park Slope?

Ditto.

I always thought that Prospect Heights was a cute way of combining the names of two areas adjacent to it:

Crown Heights
Prospect Park

dinkyla