In 2001 Forgotten-NY.com commenting on the changing neighborhoods on Brooklyn said:

 "Much of downtown Brooklyn, which for my purposes includes Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Vinegar Hill, Red Hook and part of Fort Greene, no longer exists. It used to be home to a collection of streets wide and narrow, full of tenements, stores, and cobblestones, many overshadowed by dark forbidding elevated structures where trains rattled on their way to and across the Brooklyn Bridge (yes–the Brooklyn Bridge: els used to traverse it). Many of these streets are now gone, many of them eliminated because of Robert Moses’ Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, many more removed for parkland and urban renewal and yet more for government buildings. Few remember these streets by now."