Red Hook/Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill, NY Real Estate — Homes For Sale in Red Hook/Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill, NY

Cobble Hill is one of the borough's most picturesque areas for strolling past redbrick row houses and brownstone town houses and churches. Greek Revival and Italianate styles predominate among the 19th-century structures, but many other influences can be detected as well. The area has become more upscale and is now better known for housing many of New York's intelligentsia--and the restaurants and cafés they love. In Carroll Gardens, the area owes its down-to-earth atmosphere to its Italian-American base. Innovative restaurants and boutiques share the streets with old-style bakeries and butcher shops. In Red Hook, the area entices with redbrick Civil War-era warehouses, views of the Statue of Liberty and lower New York Harbor, and destination bars and restaurants. less