Cobble Hill or Carroll Gardens?
Where does Carroll Gardens start and Cobble Hill end? I have seen it a number of different ways and am still confused.
Where does Carroll Gardens start and Cobble Hill end? I have seen it a number of different ways and am still confused.
“Small Town Brooklyn”is fine, but it only covers brownstone Brooklyn west of Flatbush Avenue, specifically:
Boerum Hill
Brooklyn Heights
Carroll Gardens
Cobble Hill
Park Slope
Windsor Terrace
As someone who has been in the cross hairs of many a dispute over whether we live in Cobble Hill or not, here’s what the Cobble Hill Blog had to say about the Cobble Hill boundaries.
I think the reason the four blocks bounded by Court, Degraw (nth Side), Smith & Warren are included is that they’re are zoned for the public elementary school in Cobble Hill.
http://cobblehillblog.com/archives/114
Simon
come on… Everyone knows that the area west of Hicks is CoWaDi, the Columbia Waterfront District
I stated the historic district of Cobble Hill and not the Carrol Garden’s one because the historic district of Cobble Hill encompasses the majority of Cobble Hill, whereas the historic district of Carrol Gardens is quite small (but I did include it when I described all of Carroll Gardens).
And generally, while things have changed a lot in the last few boom years, the areas between Hicks and Columbia were generally never considered a part of anything, but there are those who will argue that they are part of Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens…
If we get resident only permit parking, I think we will become very familiar with our little dominion boundaries and where the powers that be want us to park and not park.
Though “neighborhoods” often extend past the boundaries indicated, here is a link to the historic district maps which are useful as they can affect land values and your ability to renovate:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/maps/maps_bklyn.shtml
You will see that the street signs change to brown in these areas. Often one side of a street is in a “historical district” and the other isn’t… this happens at the borders.
I’ve always liked “Small Sown Brooklyn” as a good site for nfo on neighborhood boundaries – although it really only covers brownstone Brooklyn.
http://www.smalltownbrooklyn.com/smalltownbrooklyn/index.html
Don’t trust the bococa guide. They have at least one street misspelled and haven’t been around long enough to be a definitive guide.
The landmark districts are actually important because they impact what you can do with your property if you own. The neighborhood boundaries only matter if you want to identify with a particular name. Like a person on Douglass near Smith probably says they live in Cobble Hill, but someone might actually bother to argue that they don’t because they are not within the historic district boundaries.
The odd thing is that the North side of Degraw is in Cobble Hill but the south side is not. This actually make a huge difference when renovating, converting to condos, etc.