Longtime residents reflect on their time in Brooklyn Heights
Linda and Henry Cateura have lived in the same house on Willow Street since 1966. Around the corner, Ann Walker Gaffney and her late husband, Richard, moved into their Hicks Street brownstone that same year.
“Buying this house was the best thing we ever did,” Linda says.
She sits opposite Henry at the wooden table in the dining room of the Willow Street house’s basement apartment in which they live. The room overlooks the pretty greenery of a small, shrouded back garden. Even on this bitter late-November day, the patch remains verdant.