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Cobble Hill is a Brooklyn neighborhood in New York City, 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 NYC Landmark Preservation Commission as the gentrification of the eastern and southern borders of this designated Historic District took hold. A map of New York City, highlighting Brooklyn. ...
Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ...
Boerum Hill is a small segment of Brooklyn roughly bounded by State Street to the north, 3rd Avenue to the east, Court Street to the west, and Warren Street to the south. ...
View of Brooklyn Heights from Manhattan Brooklyn Heights is a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. ...
Carroll Gardens is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, USA named for Charles Carroll, a revolutionary war veteran who was also the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. ...
This article is about the building material and the dwelling. ...
Gentrification refers to the process whereby dilapidated neighborhoods are restored and refurbished, usually in conjunction with changing demographics and an influx of wealthier residents. ...
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. Neighbourhood is also a term in topology. ...
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. A map of New York City, highlighting Brooklyn. ...
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician and author, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. ...
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The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel (or Cobble Hill Tunnel of the Long Island Rail Road) is an abandoned railroad tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, New York. ...
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