Cobble Hill is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of Brooklyn, New York City. A small area comprising 40 blocks, Cobble Hill sits adjacent to Brooklyn Heights to the north, Boerum Hill to the east, Carroll Gardens to the south, and the Columbia Street Waterfront District to the west. It is bounded by Atlantic Avenue (north), Court Street (east), Degraw Street (south), and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (west).
Tompkins Place Cobble Hill is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. A small area comprising 40 blocks, Cobble Hill sits adjacent to Brooklyn Heights to the north, Boerum Hill to the east, Carroll Gardens to the south, and the Columbia Street Waterfront District to the west. It is bounded by Atlantic Avenue (north), Court Street (east), Degraw Street (south), and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (west). Other sources add to the neighborhood a rectangle bounded by Wyckoff Street on the north, Hoyt Street on the east, Degraw Street on the south, and Court Street on the west. Through its early history, the area now called “Cobble Hill” was considered part of South Brooklyn, Red Hook, or simply the Sixth Ward, or as part of Brooklyn Heights. The current name, a revival of a character that had died out by the 1880s, was adopted in 1959. Much of the neighborhood, which has “one of the city’s finest collections of nineteenth-century houses,” is included in the Cobble Hill Historic District. Top Brooklyn Electrician
Cobble Hill Park
On Clinton Street between Verandah Place and Congress Street, Cobble Hill Park was created in 1965. The site had been the location of two mansions (the Weber and Whitten Mansions) and the Second Unitarian Church, abandoned by the 1940s when the site was purchased by the Bohack Corporation, a supermarket chain. The mansions were demolished, and in the 1960s, the corporation planned to build a supermarket on the site, a proposition opposed by the Cobble Hill community, which felt the need for a park for the neighborhood. Bohack sold the site to developers in 1962, who planned to build a low-rise apartment building. The community collected signatures and successfully petitioned the city to create a park.
Restaurants and Pubs
- Dos Toros Taqueria is located at 64 Court St, Brooklyn, NY
- Junior’s Restaurant & Bakery is located at 386 Flatbush Ave Ext, Brooklyn, NY.
- Graziella’s is located at 232 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY
- Ryan Maguire’s Bar & Restaurant is located at 28 Cliff St, New York, NY
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