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Regarded as "America's first suburb," Brooklyn Heights has been celebrated and designated for its diverse collection of historic houses and churches dating from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Lesser known is the story of Brooklyn's other suburbs, which experienced exponential growth during the mid to late nineteenth century facilitated by access to Manhattan by the introduction of the Brooklyn Bridge and various improvements in mass transit, and the opening of Olmsted & Vaux's pioneering Prospect Park. Intent on capitalizing on state and federal historic rehabilitation tax credits, local preservation advocate, Crown Heights North Association, commissioned Gregory Dietrich Preservation to complete a National Register Nomination to list the neighborhood on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Gregory Dietrich Preservation’s work on this nomination entailed the research, survey, analysis and documentation of 1,050 historic properties. This listing has not only enabled property owners within the district to capitalize on state and federal historic tax credits, but also enabled its advocate to attain state and national recognition for this lesser known—but equally distinctive—historic Brooklyn neighborhood.