Postings will be less frequent during this holiday weekend, so instead fulfill your intrigue for neighborhood info with a throwback to the Brooklyn Eagle’s December 30th article recapping Cobble Hill’s 42 anniversary as a historic district… what’s kept its layout and look so desirable for all these years.
Illustration courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society |
On Dec. 30, 1969, one of Brooklyn’s most desirable residential neighborhoods was designated an historical district. It is a community of modest row houses, handsome churches and some historically important model tenements developed primarily during the mid-19th century. It retains the character of that period to a surprising degree….