Brooklyn Neighborhood Guides
The neighborhoods I know best, from twenty years on the ground
These are the neighborhoods I work in, written from more than twenty years of living in Brooklyn and fifteen years of selling it. Each guide covers the neighborhood itself, the current market, what buyers and sellers should know, and the places locals actually go. If you’re new to buying here, start with my Brooklyn Buyer’s Guide.
Park Slope
Prospect Park on one side, 19th-century brownstones on nearly every block, and Seventh and Fifth Avenues handling most of daily life in between.
Prospect Heights
A compact stretch between Grand Army Plaza and Atlantic Avenue, with the Brooklyn Museum, the Botanic Garden, and Vanderbilt Avenue’s restaurants all within a short walk.
Carroll Gardens
Unusually deep front gardens, Court and Smith Streets for dinner, and an Italian heritage that still shows up in the bakeries and social clubs.
Cobble Hill
A handful of quiet blocks between Atlantic Avenue and Degraw Street, with Cobble Hill Park at the center and Court Street a block away.
Boerum Hill
Brownstone blocks between Atlantic Avenue and the Gowanus, a short walk from the Barclays Center and Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway hubs.
Fort Greene
Brownstones and Italianate rowhouses around Fort Greene Park, with BAM and DeKalb Avenue’s restaurants a few blocks away.
Clinton Hill
Gilded Age mansions along Clinton Avenue, the Pratt Institute campus, and quiet blocks of brownstones and prewar buildings.
Bedford-Stuyvesant
One of the country’s largest collections of intact Victorian brownstones, with landmarked blocks across Stuyvesant Heights.
Dumbo
Cobblestone streets under the Manhattan Bridge, converted warehouse lofts, and Brooklyn Bridge Park along the water.
Brooklyn Heights
New York City’s first landmarked historic district, with the Promenade looking across the harbor at Lower Manhattan.
Williamsburg
Waterfront towers along Kent Avenue, converted factories, and Bedford Avenue’s shops and restaurants, one stop from Manhattan on the L.
Bushwick
Converted warehouses, murals along Troutman Street, and a mix of new construction and older rowhouses off the L and M trains.
Greenpoint
Brooklyn’s northern tip, with Polish bakeries on Manhattan Avenue, rowhouses on the side streets, and new towers along the East River.
Crown Heights
Limestone and brownstone rowhouses along Eastern Parkway and the blocks north of it, with the Brooklyn Museum and Botanic Garden at its western edge.
Sunset Park
Harbor views from the park the neighborhood is named for, Eighth Avenue’s restaurants, and Industry City on the waterfront.
Windsor Terrace
A small grid of rowhouses tucked between Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery, with a pace that’s quieter than the neighborhoods around it.
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Early 20th-century houses on the landmarked blocks of Lefferts Manor, steps from the eastern edge of Prospect Park.
Gowanus
Rowhouses, converted warehouses, and new development rising along a canal that’s in the middle of a federal Superfund cleanup.
Red Hook
Waterfront blocks facing the Statue of Liberty, Pioneer Works, and no subway, which has shaped the neighborhood as much as the water has.
Greenwood
Quiet residential blocks just south of Park Slope, bordering Green-Wood Cemetery.