Until the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway came along, Cobble Hill was just another part of Red Hook. When the highway came, what the postage-stamp-sized area lost in waterfront it gained in serenity - now Cobble Hill's one-way streets, bluestone sidewalks and turn-of-the-century mansions give you the sensation of having slipped back a hundred years or so. Its neighborhood shops (you'll get addicted to the cheese at Stinky Brooklyn, the nuts at Sahadi's and the cookies at Court Pastry) truly make it irresistible.

For recreation, you can take in a movie at the Cobble Hill cinemas on Court Street, a theater which shows a mix of art-house flicks and current blockbusters or for family fun, there's Cobble Hill Park (known to locals as Verandah Park, for the street it sits on.)

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