AMNY Does Cobble Hill
Cobble Hill: full of “yoga-glow moms pushing expensive baby strollers” and “wine bars, stylish boutiques and gift shops.” That’s part of the round-up of the nabe, courtesy of AMNY, which finds similarities between Cobble Hill and its Park Slope, Carroll Gardens and Boerum Hill neighbors. So what’s different about it? “Cobble Hill is smaller and…
Cobble Hill: full of “yoga-glow moms pushing expensive baby strollers” and “wine bars, stylish boutiques and gift shops.” That’s part of the round-up of the nabe, courtesy of AMNY, which finds similarities between Cobble Hill and its Park Slope, Carroll Gardens and Boerum Hill neighbors. So what’s different about it? “Cobble Hill is smaller and more intimate, especially east of Court Street where the noise and fuss gives way to peaceful little streets, gardens with wrought-iron fences and pre-Civil War era townhouses,” they write. They report a happy mix: old-school Italians residents; the Middle Easterners along Atlantic; an infusion of young hipster types, all peacefully coexisting in this pocket of the world. Sure, there are hipsters, but it’s not Williamsburg, said one resident. And too many strollers but it’s not Park Slope, either.
City Living: Cobble Hill [AMNY]
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Petebklyn – you’re pathetic !
Cobblehiller, you have a Trader Joes? OK, Cobble Hill has clearly changed a lot since I lived in Carroll Gardens. The food was just as expensive if not more than Citarella, and it wasn’t as good. Citarella is really quite a good value in New York terms. Sorry to be getting on your nerves, Cobblehiller, please forgive me.
even if these places are technically in BH, it’s not like as if they don’t add to the conveniences of living in CH. most people probably go to them on the walk home from the subway.
now that is probably the only downer about CH, proximity to the subway. i personally don’t mind the walk, but it’s about 10 min to boro hall and the F train blows.
I never knew the dividing line on the north perimeter of Cobble Hill was the north side of Atlantic Ave. As a kid growing up in Cobble Hill(1962-1975) who actually hung out on Verrandah place when the park wasn’t there and an old dilapidated Church was there instead, we owned Atlantic Avenue back then. Most of the original Lebanese or Syrian merchants of Atlantic Ave lived on Amity or Pacific Street in Cobble Hill, so I think it’s proper to claim Sahadi’s and Damascus as Cobble Hill landmarks.
brownie – most of that stuff you mention is on court or smith street? right? isn’t there an equinox in brooklyn heights? you have fresh direct and trader joes, so doesn’t that add to the same thing as whole foods? if you have a car, go to the pathmark on the edge of carroll gardens btw – probably more good deals – i have recently become a huge fan of the pathmark in LIC – it’s gigantic and immaculate and i get tons of money back using my pathmark card.
i do have to say your comment about the food is right. i have lived in park slope and cobble hill and find the food is williamsburg restaurants to be just on another level.
Aw, Brownie! That’s so nice! Welcome dear! I’d bring you some holiday cookies if I knew who you were!
Pete, I like you, but you are a G R U M P! : )
OK, ok, Biff, I knew I was cheating a tad with Sahadi, Damascus and Green Pea.
Cobbler, ok, you can stake claim to Trader Joe’s, and the others, but please give credit to Brooklyn Heights for Sahadi’s and Damascus Bakery! It’s north of Atlantic and you have enough good places anyway. BH needs all the grocery help it can get!
” I relunctantly left NY city 12 months ago to buy and move in Cobble Hill” – gee now that you don’t live in NY city guess you don’t pay city income tax nor can vote for Bloomberg.
Couldn’t agree more. I relunctantly left NY city 12 months ago to buy and move in Cobble Hill as my family was growing and I am SO in love. I wasn’t sure what to expect from Brooklyn after 10 years in Manhattan so I went thru an extensive and very long search of all neighborhoods in Brooklyn and ended up in what I considered the best: Cobble Hill. It is the second closest after BH but let’s say more affordable.
I have been pleasantly surprised. Ok …. restaurants are clearly not up to par (and I have tried all the best ones), and it’s hard to find the same level of convenience (as far as proximity of your gym ,massage place, beauty salon, yoga studio, dry cleaner, pharmacy, no whole foods, bla bla bla) but I definitely found peace and civilized people. It is so quiet (no more loud FDNY and NYPD sirens) and I actually know and enjoy my neighbors. We help each other out everytime we can (from sweeping the leaves, to looking after their house when they’re gone, from putting the garbage off the streets after it’s been collected).
Recently at a brunch, a friend who lives in Park Slope complained about his scooter that recently got trashed while parked outside on his block, another complained about the constant subway noise in Dumbo to the point you cant even have a discussion outside and the other one complained about the street noise in Boerum Hill. Frankly, I couldn’t come up with one complaint about Cobble Hill.