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Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
Prospect Heights is a neighborhood in the northwest of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The traditional boundaries are Flatbush Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Eastern Parkway - beginning at Grand Army Plaza - to the south, and Washington Avenue to the east. In the northern section of Prospect Heights are the Vanderbilt Rail Yards, built over as part of the Pacific Park (formerly Atlantic Yards) project. The Barclays Center, home to the NBA's Brooklyn Nets basketball team, is located in the northwestern corner of the neighborhood in Pacific Park at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues.
Compared to other Brooklyn neighborhoods, Prospect Heights is relatively small and is notable for its cultural diversity as well as its tree-lined streets. Prospect Heights has seen rapid demographic changes over the 2000s, and its shifts are exemplified by a mixture of older buildings under reconstruction, rows of classic 1890s brownstones, and newly built luxury condominiums. The neighborhood is served by the New York Police Department's 78th Precinct.
Notable people with ties to Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, from Wikipedia:
- Amy DuBois Barnett (born 1969), magazine editor who was formerly editor-in-chief of Ebony magazine
- Barbara Barrie (born 1931), actress
- Matt Berninger (born 1971), musician
- Matt Bomer, actor
- Clara Bow, actress
- Jabari Brisport (born 1987), politician, activist, and former public school teacher who represents New York's 25th State Senate district
- Foxy Brown (born 1978), rapper
- Paul Byard (1939-2008), lawyer and architect
- Peter A. Carey, Brooklyn Boro President
- Melissa Clark, food writer, cookbook author and columnist for The New York Times
- Aaron Copland (1900-1990), composer
- Howard Cosell (1918-1995), sports journalist, broadcaster and author
- Soffiyah Elijah, lawyer, author and social justice activist
- Bobby Fischer, chess grandmaster lived on Lincoln Place near Underhill
- MC Frontalot, founder, Nerdcore
- Keith Gessen, co-editor-in-chief of n+1, novelist
- Montego Glover, actress
- Diana al-Hadid (born 1981), artist who creates sculptures, installations, and drawings
- Hakeem Jeffries (born 1970), U.S. Representative for New York's 8th congressional district
- Ingrid Michaelson, singer, songwriter
- Isa Chandra Moskowitz vegan chef, cookbook writer, and host of "The Post Punk Kitchen", which is filmed in Prospect Heights
- Michael Moss, Pulitzer Prize winning author
- Eddie Ocampo, drummer
- Joe Pepitone NY Yankees player lived on St. Mark’s Avenue between Vanderbilt and Washington
- Joan Rivers (1933-2014), comedian
- Mark Rudd (born 1947), leader in the 1960s' Weather Underground, and Columbia University's 1968 protests; when he lived "underground" in the early 1970s, it was in one of the large apartment buildings on Plaza Street
- Emanuel Weiss, member of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc. during the 1930s
- Tobias Wilner, musician