BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Gloria Dichiara has lived in Brooklyn Heights for most of her life, but never really thought too much about why three streets in the neighborhood were named Orange, Pineapple, and Cranberry. 

"It's the fruit streets, parallel with Clark and Pierrepont, it's the fruit streets, yeah, didn't really question it," Dichiara said.

But there is an answer to the question of why the three streets, which run from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade (there's even a Fruit Street Sitting Area) to Hicks Street, are named for fruit.

"Because of ships that would come in with the fruit I assume, I think that's why. That's a possibility. No, that's why," said Cathy Haft, a Brooklyn Heights resident.

"You used to see tourists taking pictures of the Pineapple sign in particular, the street sign. I wonder why pineapple? I don't know," said Pat Austin, another Brooklyn Heights resident.

She's kinda half right. I decided to check in with Brooklyn Historical Society Executive Vice President Marcia Ely to get the story, when she informed me there were actually two. The first involves local resident Lady Middagh, who in the 19th Century felt the practice of naming of streets after wealthy landowners was pretentious.

"The story goes that in the dark of night, she came and ripped down the names of these people, and put up the names of her favorite fruits," Ely said.

After a tug of war with municipal officials, Lady Middagh won. Not only that, Middagh Street somehow was not named Kiwi Street. Anyway, that second story (much less dramatic) was that some other wealthy residents, the Hicks Brothers - as in Hicks Street - sold exotic fruit.   

"They named these streets after the fruits that they sold, it was like a pre-Civil War billboard on the streets that was marketing their goods," Ely said.

So you can decide for yourself which story is what actually happened, but either way, the area certainly draws a lot of attention.