80 Winthrop Street

80 Winthrop Street, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, NY 11225

Taking its rather long name from three nearby locations — Prospect Park, Lefferts Manor, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden — Prospect Lefferts Gardens (“PLG,” to locals) can be found below Empire Boulevard, on the eastern side of its namesake park. Nowadays, you'll find primarily low and mid-rise buildings — many of them prewar, with some newer builds rising along the avenues. Due to a still-observed 1893 land-use covenant, residences within the eight-block, rectangular Lefferts Manor Historic District must be single-family homes built of brick or stone and at least two stories high, among other guidelines. Befitting a neighborhood with multiple namesakes combined into one, Lefferts Manor is hardly PLG's only Historic District with a distinct architectural character: The Chester Court Historic District is a cul-de-sac made up of 18 Tudor Revival-style houses, while the Ocean on the Park Historic District consists of two brick and 10 limestone townhouses set back from the road behind a row of trees.