Clinton Hill is a small neighborhood in north-central Brooklyn, New York. It is bordered on the east by Bedford-Stuyvesant, on the west by Fort Greene, on the north by Wallabout and on the south by Altantic or Fulton Avenues.
The Pratt Institute of Art is located here, as well as many Brownstone homes. The poetMarianne Moore lived and worked for many years in an apartment house on Cumberland Avenue. Her apartment, which is lovingly recalled in Elizabeth Bishop's essay, "Efforts of Affection", has been preserved exactly as it existed during Moore's lifetime--though not in Clinton Hill. To see the Moore apartment you need to travel to Center City Philadephia, to the Rosenbach Museum. After her death, the furnishings and contents of Marianne Moore's apartment were purchased by the Rosenbach brothers, renowned collectors of literary ephemera. These pieces were then painstakingly reassembled in the top floor of their Philadelphia townhouse.
External links
Clinton Hill Society (http://www.clintonhillsociety.org/)
ClintonHill's weak spot has always been its underperforming elementary and high schools, and many parents send their children to private, alternative or parochial schools.
She is co-chairwoman of the Landmarks Preservation Committee of the Society for ClintonHill, a community group that monitors major condo conversions and new high-rises, many of which, she says, seem to go up overnight, in spite of opposition.
"ClintonHill has been one of the few communities in New York City to maintain its level of racial and economic diversity," said Ron Schiffman, a professor at the graduate center for planning and the environment at Pratt.
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