‘Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness.’ –Georges Simenon
In his 1959 memoir “A House on the Heights,” Truman Capote wrote, “I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.” The main reason, it turns out, was his love of Brooklyn Heights, which he described as standing “atop a cliff that secures a sea-gull’s view of the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges.” Capote lived in the garden apartment of a mansion on Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights from 1955 to 1965.
