Here are some notable highlights, spanning the Association’s 94 year history:

1910- The Brooklyn Heights Association (“BHA”) is founded, making it now the oldest, ongoing neighborhood association in the City.

1923- Three key committees are formed: Traffic, Zoning and Parks. Today these same committees continue the fight for traffic calming, well-maintained parks and intelligent land use.

1935- BHA helps create Cadman Plaza Park.

1940- BHA plants 1,081 trees in the Heights.

1945- We block Robert Moses’ plan to build the BQE through the Heights. The alternate route results in our world-famous Promenade.

1960- BHA takes a stand on the Cadman Plaza urban renewal plan, persuading Robert Moses to build larger, family-size apartments.

1965- Our advocacy efforts lead to passage of the NYC Landmarks Law and Brooklyn Heights is designated as the City’s first Historic District.

1967- BHA wins the 50-foot building height limit for Brooklyn Heights.

1971- We defeat the Atlantic Authority bill, preventing destruction of the south Heights by a multi-lane expressway.

1975/76- BHA plans the conversion of the Pierrepont Hotel into housing for the elderly.

1978- A campaign stared by the BHA ends in passage of the “Pooper Scooper” Law.

1982- We launch the Civilian Observation Patrol, later sponsored by the 84th Precinct Community Council.

1985- We launch our first House Tour, now an annual event.

1986- BHA hires a planning firm to set guidelines for redevelopment of Piers 1-5 below the Promenade.

1988- We block a 30-story building, planned by the Watchtower Society, at the foot of Columbia Heights.

1989- BHA organizes a community coalition of neighborhoods to preserve the downtown Brooklyn waterfront for the whole Borough.

1994- We inaugurate and seed Project Sweep, employing the developmentally disabled to keep Montague Street clean.

1995/96- BHA lays the groundwork for a Montague Street Business Improvement District.

1998- BHA provides a grant to the Parks Department to pay for an irrigation system in the Promenade Gardens.

1999- We sponsor plans and line up wide support for an improved Cadman Plaza Park.

2000- BHA advocacy leads to an agreement with the City for a Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Program.

2002- BHA helps focus public attention on PS 8, rallies neighborhood parents and brings financial help to the school.

2003- We succeed in the public battle to significantly scale back the City’s Office of Emergency Management headquarters in Cadman Park.

2004- BHA organizes a community coalition to monitor and critique the City’s massive development plans for Downtown Brooklyn.

2004- Vigorous opposition by BHA defeats a view-blocking high-rise proposed for a site next to the Brooklyn Bridge.