Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
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Cobble Hill is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, USA. Bordered by Atlantic Avenue on the north, Hicks Street to the west, Smith Street on the east and Degraw Street to the south, Cobble Hill sits adjacent to Boerum Hill and Brooklyn Heights with Carroll Gardens to the south. The area was historically Italian and is centered on two main roads - Court and Smith Street. Family-run shops are Cobble Hill's biggest attraction; Italian meat markets and old time barber shops mixing with trendy new restaurants. Smith Street is known as Brooklyn's "Restaurant Row" due to the large number of eateries and watering holes that opened on the street during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Cobble Hill Park, at the intersection of Congress and Clinton Streets, was reconstructed in 1989 and reflects the brick and stone character of this tree lined neighborhood. Cobble Hill is also renowned for its private Italianate style brownstone and brick row houses. Many of these buildings were remodeled according to regulations dictated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission as the gentrification of the eastern and southern borders of this designated Historic District took hold.
Until the 1970s, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens were, together, known as "South Brooklyn," even though they are in the northwest portion of the borough, because they were south of the original settlement in what is now Brooklyn Heights and Downtown Brooklyn. The neighborhood is served by the Bergen Street F and G subway stop. This station is slightly unique in that it has an entire lower level that remains unused for passenger service. One may occasionally see this area if the MTA has the subway running express, which they often do.
Cobble Hill is the "Co" in the meta-neighborhood BoCoCa which is an amalgamation of three names, Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, and Carroll Gardens. More information about the location of this and other NYC neighborhoods can be found here.
Trivia: The Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn is the birthplace of Winston Churchill's mother. There is a plaque noting this on Henry Street near Kane Street, but the actual birthplace was a few blocks north on Amity Street.
Hannah Miles (Jazz musician) was born on Strong Place.
PS29 is one of the zoned elementary school and has one of the best records in the city for extracurricular activities.
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- NYCfoto.com Recent photos of Cobble Hill
