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Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
Cobble Hill is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. A small neighborhood comprising 40 blocks, Cobble Hill sits adjacent to Brooklyn Heights to the north, Boerum Hill to the east, Carroll Gardens to the south, and the Columbia Street Waterfront District to the west. It is bounded by Atlantic Avenue (north), Court Street (east), Degraw Street (south) and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (west). Other sources add to the neighborhood a rectangle bounded by Wyckoff Street on the north, Hoyt Street on the east, Degraw Street on the south, and Court Street on the west.
Through its early history, the area now called "Cobble Hill" was considered to be part of South Brooklyn, Red Hook, or simply the Sixth Ward, or as part of Brooklyn Heights. The current name, a revival of a name which had died out by the 1880s, was adopted in 1959. Much of the neighborhood, which has "one of the city's finest collections of nineteenth-century houses", is included in the Cobble Hill Historic District.
Cobble Hill is part of Brooklyn Community District 6 and its ZIP Codes are 11201 and 11231. It is served by the 76th Precinct of the New York City Police Department at 191 Union Street. Fire services are provided by the New York City Fire Department's Engine Company 206 and Ladder Company 108, located in nearby Carroll Gardens.
Notable people with ties to Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, from Wikipedia:
- Martin Amis (1949-2023), writer
- Lady Randolph Churchill (1854-1921), mother of Winston Churchill, was born in a rented house on Amity Street; note that the plaque at 426 Henry Street is incorrect, the Jeromes lived there before she was born
- Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz
- Mike D (born 1965), musician
- Michelle Goldberg, author and New York Times op-ed columnist
- Garth Risk Hallberg (born 1978), fiction writer
- Norah Jones (born 1979), singer
- Spike Lee (resident from 1961 to 1969), filmmaker
- Alex McCord, performer on the reality TV program Real Housewives of New York City
- Todd Rosenberg, cartoonist known for the website Odd Todd
- Jenny Slate (born 1982), actress and comedian
- Richard Upjohn (1802-1878) and Richard Upjohn Jr., architects, lived at 296 Clinton Street, which they designed; it was built in 1843 and added to in 1893 by Richard M. Upjohn
- Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938), writer, lived on Verandah Place between Henry and Clinton Street in the 1930s