If you like looking at maps, the first thing you’ll notice about Cobble Hill is that it forms a nearly perfect rectangle around 22 blocks in the western part of Brooklyn. Bounded by Atlantic Avenue to the north, Court Street to the east, Degraw Street to the south, and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to the west,…
Did You Know That Brooklyn has its Very Own, Beautiful “Garden District?” There is a good reason why its name is Carroll Gardens: the neighborhood’s main features are deep front yards, often surrounded by decorative wrought iron fences. This explains the “garden” part. But why Carroll, you may ask? Until 1964, this 40-block neighborhood, was…
Here is a question for you: which instrument, according to novelist Thomas Mann, emits the sound that can be compared to the “silvery blossoming harmony?” You don’t know? Perhaps this hint will help: it was played by the famous bandleader, the King of Swing. Got it? If you are thinking of the clarinet, you are…
