Federal and Greek Revival rowhouses from the early 1800s line the bluff above the harbor, and Moonstruck used the corner at Cranberry and Willow Streets.
What Brooklyn Heights looks like
Brooklyn Heights sits on a bluff above the East River, its side streets lined with three and four story rowhouses behind iron fences and low stone stoops. keeps a run of plain brick Federal houses from the early 1800s, dormers cut into the roof and a half flight down to the basement door.
On a row of wood frame houses still has clapboard and shingle fronts, painted grey and white, with black shutters and small front yards. and run brick and brownstone rows closer to the sidewalk, iron gates at the bottom of each stoop and window boxes on the parlor floor.
The runs along the top of the bluff on a platform cantilevered over the expressway, the traffic lanes below visible through the iron railing. Benches line the walkway under mature trees, and the Manhattan skyline and the harbor sit directly across the water.
is the commercial spine, cafe tables and awnings set out under brownstone upper floors, with taller buildings like the Hotel Bossert further down the block. runs one lane off Hicks Street, arched carriage house doors in orange brick and no cars parked on it.
Shot in Brooklyn Heights
Moonstruck used the corner house at Cranberry and Willow Streets as the Castorini family home, its brick front and mansard roof recognizable today. The Sentinel shot inside and outside a Neo-Grec mansion at 10 Montague Terrace, a block over from the Promenade.
Moonstruck, 1987
The house on Cranberry Street
The Castorini house is 19 Cranberry Street, on the corner of Willow Street. Norman Jewison used the outside of it and shot the interiors elsewhere. It is a brick house of about 1830, twenty six feet wide, with a mansard roof added later in the century.
The Sentinel, 1977
Alison Parker's apartment house is 10 Montague Terrace, a brownstone mansion of 1875 by Ebenezer L. Roberts. Michael Winner shot inside it as well as outside. The back of the house faces the Promenade, and the vines that grew up its side in the film are gone.
What Brooklyn Heights can double for
Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts
Beacon Hill's brick Federal and Greek Revival rowhouses run three and four stories with the same bow front windows and paneled doors as Willow Street, and Acorn Street keeps a cobblestone surface close to the scale of Brooklyn Heights' own side streets. Louisburg Square has its own wrought iron fence, its Greek Revival townhouses built between 1834 and 1847. Beacon Hill's brick sidewalks and gas lamps read differently in a wide shot, so frame tight on a single block to hold the illusion. Try searching cobblestone Federal rowhouses block now.
Society Hill's brick rowhouses run two to four stories in the same Federal and Georgian fronts as Willow Street's. Front Street backs onto the Delaware waterfront the way Columbia Heights backs onto the harbor here, and Belgian block still covers several of its streets. The colonial ironwork and window shutters read a few decades earlier than Brooklyn Heights' brownstone rows, so keep a Federal block in frame rather than the later stoop houses. Try searching brick rowhouses Belgian block now.
Fells Point's small brick rowhouses run down toward Thames Street, still paved in Belgian block along the water. The houses are a story or two shorter and plainer than the brownstone rows here, close in feel to Brooklyn Heights' own waterfront blocks. Frame close on a single block front. A wider harbor view shows Baltimore's own waterfront rather than New York's. Try searching Belgian block waterfront rowhouses now.
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