Clinton Hill in Brooklyn, home to gorgeous brownstones, great restaurants, more
Pratt Institute's Sculpture Park, the largest outdoor sculpture park in New York City, stretches across its lush, 25-acre campus in Clinton Hill. Credit: Bob Handelman
The tree-lined blocks of Brooklyn's Clinton Hill, named for the sixth governor of New York, DeWitt Clinton, are adorned with majestic brownstones, historic mansions and Victorians.
According to "The Big Onion Guide to Brooklyn," in the late-19th century it was considered a prestigious place to live.
Oil tycoon Charles Pratt moved here in 1870, establishing the Pratt Institute of Art on Willoughby Avenue in 1887.
Clinton Avenue, with its stunning historic mansions, several of which were owned by the Pratt family, is known as Millionaires' Row. It also has one of the city's greatest concentrations of intact row houses from the post-Civil War era. A large part of Clinton Hill is designated as a historic district.
Clinton Hill sits between Fort Greene and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Its northern boundary is Flushing Avenue and the Brooklyn Navy Yard and its southern boundary is Atlantic Avenue. From east to west, it stretches from Vanderbilt Avenue to Classon Avenue.
