Prospect Heights, marked
Tiny, brownstone-lined, and slowly becoming the neighborhood everyone wants to live in.
Prospect Heights is maybe eight blocks wide, and I think it’s the most underrated stretch of brownstones in Brooklyn. Every block looks like the version of Brooklyn people picture in their head: stoops, trees, brownstones. You’re never more than a five-minute walk from Prospect Park.
Park Slope and Fort Greene have the reputation for this kind of block, but Prospect Heights has the same brownstones and the same park access packed into a fraction of the space. My guess is that’s exactly why it’s about to become the neighborhood everyone’s trying to move to.
Below: the coffee and breakfast spots, then the wine bar and brewery, the park-and-museum stretch that can eat a whole afternoon, and the dinners I keep sending people back to.
Coffee & breakfast
Four options within four blocks.
Canyon Coffee: The LA import now on Vanderbilt. They’ve got oat milk lattes on tap, plus pastries and toast.
Gertie: The bagels and bialys are good, but the real draw is the back patio, full of trees, easily the best spot in the neighborhood to meet a friend for breakfast or lunch.
Dilly Dally: An all-day café that’s turned into the neighborhood’s unofficial coworking space, patio included.
King David Tacos: NYC’s original Austin-style breakfast taco spot, founded by a Texas transplant who brought her mom’s salsa recipe with her. Get Mom’s Migas, scrambled eggs with salsa and tortilla chips folded in, or the BPEC with bacon, potato, egg, and cheese.
Radio Bakery: This is the second location of the Greenpoint original, which still pulls a line down the block most mornings – this one’s no different. They’re most famous for the cheesy pretzel bearclaw, a laminated pastry that’s somehow also a pretzel, stuffed with mustard béchamel and cheddar.
Drinks
Wine, and drinks from an actual working farm.