neighborhood. Canadian drag queen Brooke Lynn Hytes's name comes from the neighborhood. He was a runner-up on the eleventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race. See also History of Brooklyn Fort Brooklyn References Notes Bibliography Further reading Applegate, Debby. The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher. Doubleday, 2006. Capote, Truman. A House On the Heights, with a new introduction by George Plimpton. Little Bookroom, 2002. Lancaster, Clay. Old Brooklyn Heights: New York's First Suburb. Dover Books, 1979. Tippins, Sherill. February House: The Story of W.H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Wartime America. Houghton Mifflin, 2005. External links "Living in Brooklyn Heights" slideshow from The New York Times Neighborhoods in Brooklyn 1646 establishments in the Dutch Empire