Lefferts Gardens
Runs from Empire Boulevard to the north, Clarkson Avenue to the south, Ocean Avenue and Prospect Park to the west and Nostrand Avenue to the east.
This neighborhood contains architecturally diverse styles of homes - Neo-Renaissance, Romanesque Revival, Neo-Georgian, Federal and Tudor style two- to four story town homes built from 1890 to the 1920s exist. Detached homes from the 1930s and 1940s can also be found. Many properties have gardens (hence the name).
Lefferts Gardens also includes the historic district of Lefferts Manor. James Lefferts divided his estate into 600 residential lots in 1893. He established a still existing covenant forbidding multi-family dwellings. Therefore, the homes between Lincoln Road and Fenimore Street, from Flatbush Avenue to Rogers Avenue are single-family and can never be divided into apartments.
While Lefferts Gardens is still a quiet residential community, it is not devoid of commercial development. K-Dogg and Dunebuggy on Lincoln Road, owned by local residents, is a hip cafe where you can sip a latte and surf the web. And it's all a half-hour subway ride to downtown Manhattan on the Q train.
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