Hidden Gems of The Borough of Brooklyn

[Nexis4Jersey]

BMT Brighton Line Neighborhood of Ditmas Park

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Coney Island

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Brighton Beach

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[tallboy66]

I liked the boardwalk and I still say Chicago could/should build one.

[destroycreate]

That set of the cute neighborhood is wonderful.

Is that area mostly upper class/expensive or like blue-collar Italian-American families?

[Nexis4Jersey]

Originally Posted by destroycreate

That set of the cute neighborhood is wonderful.

Is that area mostly upper class/expensive or like blue-collar Italian-American families?

Abit of every class and race from what I could see , white , black , asian , mainly middle class....

[the urban politician]

Ahhhhh a part of New York I never saw when I lived there. Never got to see much of Brooklyn, especially the "deeper" parts (ie parts further from Manhattan)

[Bronxwood]

That neighborhood is really pleasant. The last time I was there, I recall hearing Polish, Jamaican patois, Spanish etc. all being spoken. It really is a pretty good mix. That whole area with those beautiful homes looks so much like Buffalo. A slice of Buffalo right in the middle of Brooklyn. Ah, Brooklyn, what a great city.

[NYbyWAYofGA]

Originally Posted by destroycreate

That set of the cute neighborhood is wonderful.

Is that area mostly upper class/expensive or like blue-collar Italian-American families?

Yes, like Nexis4Jersey said, it's a very diverse area (both income and race wise). Also, I think many of those beautiful houses are actually subdivided into multifamily units. There are lots of areas like this further out in Brooklyn and Queens, bookended by intense and bustling retail corridors. I have friends in the area and it's such a pleasure walking around there in Spring time.

[Quabbin]

Hidden from whom? I guess the idea is that with Brooklyn you think of tenements and brownstone row houses, not wooden SF houses. The problem for me with all those neighborhoods you wandered through is it's all one big developer sprawl--nothing escaped the bulldozer, and it's a monotonous series of grids. You have Prospect Park north of all that and then miles of early 20th century sprawl that stops only because you reach the shore and they couldn't build in the water. No woods, fields, farms, gardens-- nothing but miles of mostly dreary real estate (what's not dreary are the Ditmas Park gems you photographed.)

[Danny]

Thanks for the tour, Nexis4Jersey!

Those houses in South Brooklyn are very pretty. Very nice neighbourhood. I see that area is very quiet and nice. Is that an expensive neighbourhood to live in? How much could cost a medium sized house like those?

Congrats and greetings from Madrid, Spain!

[Chicago103]

The single family house areas you showed demonstrates that you can live in the most populous borough of the largest city in the United States and still live in almost small town like looking settings. What is the population density of these neighborhoods? I guess it is a bit deceptive since without alleys the backs of the houses are quite close together because New York blocks are quite narrow (1/20th mile vs. 1/16th in Chicago) and the major retail corridors probably still have some fairly large apartment buildings.

[ColDayMan]

Awesome.

[Yorkie]

Hometown U.S.A......... New York City style.

[Nexis4Jersey]

Originally Posted by Danny

Thanks for the tour, Nexis4Jersey!

Those houses in South Brooklyn are very pretty. Very nice neighbourhood. I see that area is very quiet and nice. Is that an expensive neighbourhood to live in? How much could cost a medium sized house like those?

Congrats and greetings from Madrid, Spain!

The Average cost in that neighborhood is about 640k , some homes are as high as 1.8 Million... The Apartments range from 1400 to 4500 a month.

[STLgasm]

Those neighborhoods are as quaint as leafy New England town. More proof that New York is truly the Everything City.

[J. Will]

This pic looks so Toronto. Specifically some of the subway stops along the Bloor-Danforth line with houses directly adjacent to a subway entrance. Only in Toronto the stations are underground and the street wouldn't dead-end there, but still very similar. Look at Chester station for example:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Chest...rPqYZzl3ELSxAw

Or Lansdowne station:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Lansd...,284.13,,0,1.7

[uaarkson]

This is probably the most beautiful neighborhood in America.