The postcard is dated 1910, but it must have been made earlier than that. Brooklyn ceased being a separate city in 1898, and City Hall was downgraded to Borough Hall.
In the foreground stands the Henry Ward Beecher statue, a monument to Brooklyn Heights’ most famous preacher, abolitionist, social reformer—and accused adulterer.
His adultery charges and subsequent trial in 1875 (jurors were unable to reach a verdict) became the scandal of the century.
Ephemeral New York 