Just a couple of weeks ago, Lost City covered Carroll Gardens, and now they’re onto neighboring Cobble Hill.
To many, the realtor-hatched neighborhood names of Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens mean little. “What’s the difference? It’s all South Brooklyn in the end.” Indeed, the nabes are so small and so close together, they might as well be categorized under one name. Still, over the years, I’ve discerned enough differences between the two areas that I think they deserve separate handles. Cobble Hill is tonier, its average street more architecturally beautiful; Carroll Gardens a bit more scruffy, closer to the highways and the docks. CG retains a stronger ethnic, Italian-American edge, while CH is more blandly heterogeneous. And CG, in my opinion, has more mercantile personality than CG, which just has, you know, a lot of nice shops.
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