Restaurant Rows
Snuggled between Red Hook and Brooklyn Heights you will find Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, and Boerum Hill, a cute cluster of historic neighborhoods offering top-notch dining and nightlife, old world flavor and a fantastic antique district perfect for even the most discriminating of treasure seekers.

A Bit of Background
Like other areas of Brooklyn, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Boerum Hill experienced great growth during the 1800's when the Industrial Revolution, combined with increased European immigration, helped fill Brooklyn's waterfront with commerce and industry. Around this time, the once pristine Gowanus Creek was deepened and straightened into today's Gowanus Canal to provide the factories and foundries access to Brooklyn's rapidly developing waterfront. As maritime development and industry grew in Brooklyn, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Boerum Hill grew to accommodate the families of owners and managers of warehouses, barge lines, factories, shipping lines and express companies, making the three neighborhoods some of America's first suburbs. Today, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Boerum Hill are characterized by tree-lined streets bordered by grand brownstones and more modest row-homes.

A Charming Area
Although Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill are separate neighborhoods, their walking proximity to one another and shared sense of charm can make it feel like one close-knit neighborhood.

Cobble Hill boasts architecturally distinctive buildings that date to the 1840s and 1850s. Here you'll find Greek Revival style homes surrounding the charming half-acre Cobble Hill Park along Congress and Clinton Streets.

Boerum Hill is also home to great examples of Greek Revival and Italianate style row-homes. Once home to a large community of steel workers from the Mohawk Indian Reservations in western New York, Boerum Hill now attracts artists, literati and stars with its architecture and gardens.

Many Carroll Gardens homes are distinguished by their large front gardens, which host festive light and decoration displays during the holiday season. Parts of Carroll Gardens were also filmed in the 1987 film, "Moonstruck," starring Nicolas Cage and Cher.

Three major streets traverse through the area. Smith Street is known as a nightlife and restaurant row. Also unique to Smith Street is the influence of French entrepreneurs, who have infused the area with a bit of European flavor. Parallel to Smith Street runs Court Street, a charming strip offering a wealth of eclectic stores and Italian-American businesses and restaurants. Nearby Atlantic Avenue is lauded for its wealth of antique stores and Middle Eastern restaurants and stores.

Getting Here:
Subway F or G to Bergen Street, Carroll Street or Smith & 9th Street
Bus B 75 and B 77
Parking Ample parking can usually be found on residential side streets.