Clinton Hill is a neighborhood in north-central

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. It is bordered by the

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and the

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to the north, Williamsburg to the northeast, Classon Avenue and Bedford–Stuyvesant to the east, Atlantic Avenue and Prospect Heights to the south and southwest and Vanderbilt Avenue and

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to the west. "The Hill", as the general area was known – with a maximum elevation of , the highest in the area – was believed to have health benefits because many people believed that disease was more prevalent in low-lying areas. The area is named after Clinton Avenue, which in turn was named in honor of New York Governor

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(1769–1828). The main thoroughfare is DeKalb Avenue. The affluentRawson, Elizabeth Reich. "Clinton Hill" in , p.272 neighborhood's mixture of apartment buildings, mansions, brownstone and brick rowhouses, and the Pratt Institute and St. Joseph's College, built at various times in a number of different styles, is a great part of its charm. Clinton Hill is part of Brooklyn Community District 2, and its primary ZIP Codes are 11238 and 11205. It is patrolled by the 88th Precinct of the

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History

The area’s European history began in the 1640s, when

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colonists laid tobacco plantations near Wallabout Bay. Bedford Corners, situated just southeast of Clinton Hill, was incorporated in 1663, and the settlers (both Dutch and French Huguenot) purchased surrounding lands from the native Lenape in 1670. On August 27, 1776, the "Road to Jamaica" (approximately Atlantic Avenue, the southern edge of today’s neighborhood) was used by the British army in a surprise overnight march to outflank the American army, which was forced to retreat toward Gowanus Creek, and two nights later, to Manhattan. After the war, the Dutch continued to build on the land, which sloped toward the

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and offered great views of the water and of

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. The tree-lined Clinton Avenue was laid out as a boulevard along the crest of the hill in 1832, and by the 1840s, Clinton Hill and neighboring

had become fashionable neighborhoods for the wealthy of Brooklyn, who could commute to Manhattan by way of stagecoach to the Fulton Ferry. The area was originally devised as a rural get-away for those "determined to escape from the closeness of city life", as

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, editor of the

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, put it in 1846. George Washington Pine had bought up the land in the area and broke it into lots, selling them to those who wanted to lead a quiet life not too far from the conveniences of the Navy Yard. Whitman, a 28-year resident of Brooklyn, had lived for less than a year in the area in 1855, where he completed his masterpiece ''

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''. The 1995 ''

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'' article "Walt Whitman’s Ghost” identified the address as 99 Ryerson Street, which still stands. In the 1860s, after the

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, Clinton Hill was developed with row houses, which dominated the street scene by the 1880s. These attracted affluent professionals. The area's development continued after

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, an oil executive, built a mansion at 232 Clinton Avenue, which is now part of the Brooklyn campus of St. Joseph's College's. Pratt also built houses there for his sons, which he gave to them as wedding gifts; other mansions followed, part of the general migration of merchants from New York City (Manhattan) to Brooklyn, and the area became known as Brooklyn's "Gold Coast". Pratt founded the

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in 1887, and its campus remains a focus of the neighborhood. After the late 1870s, Clinton Hill was one of the stops on the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway (BF&CI, now part of the Brighton subway line), an excursion line which would bring families from the neighborhood to

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for a day of recreation, and allow them to be home "at a reasonable hour". Entire families would use the BF&CI to relocate to the newly built Brighton Beach Hotel – owned by the same men who built the railroad – for the summer months, while the ''

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'' commuted to New York via ferry to work. By 1900, apartment buildings were being built on Clinton Avenue, which replaced the mansions there and on Washington Avenue by the 1920s and 40s. In addition some of the remaining mansions were converted into rooming houses in the following decades, and

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, part of

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' relentless rebuilding of the city, cleared five blocks south of the Pratt Institute, destroying the brownstones there. This was followed in the 1970s by the brownstone revival, in which many of the remaining brownstones were restored. In the 2000s, the neighborhood became somewhat gentrified, with generally wealthier people moving into the area. New construction included an apartment building of

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design at 283 Greene Avenue.

Demographics

Based on data from the

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, the population of Clinton Hill was 34,791, an increase of 1,499 (4.5%) from the 33,292 counted in

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. Covering an area of , the neighborhood had a population density of .Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010
, Population Division -

Department of City Planning, February 2012. Accessed June 16, 2016. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 42.2% (14,652)

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, 35.6% (12,389)

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, 5.2% (1,808) Asian, 0.2% (68) Native American, 0.0% (10)

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, 0.5% (161) from

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, and 3.3% (1,142) from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 13.1% (4,561) of the population.Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010
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Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011. Accessed June 14, 2016. Residents include many "artists, architects, photographers, and craftspeople". In the 21st century, the neighborhood has experienced a significant increase in population, with increased gentrification and a growing upper-middle-class population. As according to the 2020 census data from

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, there were between 10,000 to 19,999 White residents and 5,000 to 9,999 Black residents, meanwhile each the Hispanic and Asian populations were each less than 5,000 residents.

Landmarks

The Clinton Hill Historic District was listed on the

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in 1985. The district includes the mansions of Clinton Avenue, built in the 1870s and 1880s. The most prominent of these are linked to

, who built a mansion for himself at 232 Clinton Avenue in 1874, the year his Charles Pratt & Company was acquired by

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, and one each as wedding presents for three of his four sons. These four mansions can be seen on Clinton Avenue between DeKalb and Willoughby. The rest of the historic district is noted for its prominent

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and Beaux-Arts rowhouses. The

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was listed in 1986. James William Elwell built the wood-framed

villa at 70 Lefferts Place that is in the Clinton Hill district. The house is one of the two oldest houses on Lefferts Place and became designated a landmark by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on December 12, 2006. St. Mary's Episcopal Church at 220 Classon Avenue in Clinton Hill, built , and the Mechanics Temple, which was built at 67 Putnam Avenue as the Lincoln Club in 1889, are both part of the historic district. Other buildings in the Historic District include a

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wooden house at 284 Clinton Avenue, built c.1854; an Italianate brick and stone villa dating from at 447 Clinton Avenue, intact runs of mid-19th century rowhouses on Grand Avenue, St. James Place and Cambridge Place as well as on DeKalb Avenue and Waverly Avenue; mansions from the "Gold Coast" era in the 200 to 400 blocks of Clinton Avenue;At 229, 232, 241, 245, 278, 284, 300, 315, 321, 356, 380, 384, 404 & 406, 405, 410, 415, 443, 447, 457, 463 and 487 Clinton Avenue and at 367 Washington Avenue; and apartment houses on Clinton Avenue. On Lafayette Avenue are both the Emmanuel Baptist Church, completed in 1887, and the Joseph Steele or Steele-Skinner House of 1812. Clinton Avenue contains the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, completed in 1891, and the Royal Castle Apartments, completed in 1912. All are individually landmarked. Many of the buildings of the Pratt Institute are landmarked, or of architectural interest, and St. Joseph's College utilizes several of the former Pratt family mansions on Clinton Avenue. The brick building at 275 Park Avenue was built in the 1890s as a chocolate factory that produced and distributed Tootsie Rolls throughout the United States. In 2002, the building was converted into loft apartments.

Education

Institutions

, founded by

in 1887, is in Clinton Hill. Pratt began as an

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school, designed to train immigrants in then-novel sciences. Today the school has programs in architecture, graphic design, interior design, and industrial design. The Brooklyn campus of St. Joseph's College is in Clinton Hill. By 2021 the interim location of the German School of Brooklyn (GSB) was the former Coop School in the

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and Clinton Hill area. In 2021 the school moved all levels to its permanent site at 9 Hanover Place in

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Library

The

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(BPL)'s Clinton Hill branch is located at 380 Washington Avenue near Lafayette Avenue. It opened in 1973.

Transportation

Clinton Hill is served by the

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(), with a stop at the Clinton–Washington Avenues Fulton Street Line station, as well as the

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(), with stops at Classon Avenue and Clinton–Washington Avenues Crosstown Line stations. Several

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local bus routes provide service to the neighborhood, including the . Starting in the 1880s, the Myrtle Avenue and

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elevated lines served the area. The Lexington Avenue line followed Grand Avenue south from Myrtle. The last train on the Lexington Avenue line ran on October 13, 1950; dismantling of the elevated tracks began on November 1. Clinton Hill is served by

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's Astoria route, which stops at the

. The Brooklyn Navy Yard stop opened on May 20, 2019.

Notable residents

Notable residents over the years have included: Walt Whitman - George Collins Cox

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(1941–1999), avant-garde jazz (trumpet) musician owned Victorian-style home at 207 Washington Avenue for 20 years until his death in 1999 *

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(born 1997), rapper *

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(1821–1891), businessman who co-founded Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc. * James William Elwell (1820-1899), shipping merchant and philanthropist who founded James W. Elwell & Co., and built the historic house at 70 Lefferts Place. * Adrian Grenier (born 1976), actor *

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(born 1969), novelist and journalist *

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(stage name of Himanshu Suri), rapper * Tehching Hsieh (born 1950), performance artist *

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(born 1975), rapper *

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(1972–1997), rapper, grew up on 226 St. James Place, near the Bedford–Stuyvesant border; the address was then regarded as part of Bedford–Stuyvesant *

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(born 1954), former New York Governor *

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(born 1958), incumbent

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and

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shared an apartment on Hall Street in 1967, after they first met *

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(1907–1990), actress, model and dancer, was born at 246 Classon Avenue *

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(1819–1892), poet and editor of the ''

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Gallery

File:200 Lafayette Avenue Joseph Steele House from front.jpg, 200 Lafayette Avenue, Joseph Steel or Steele-Skinner House
(1812) File:447 Clinton Avenue.jpg, 447 Clinton Avenue, originally the David Burdette House, later the Galilee Baptist Church
() File:284 Clinton Avenue William W. Crane House.jpg, William W. Crane House, 284 Clinton Avenue
(Field & Correja, ) File:Mary CoE Classon Av fr Willoughby Noon jeh.jpg, St. Mary's Episcopal Church
(Richard T. Auchmuty, ) File:Emmanuel Baptist SE sun jeh.jpg, Emmanuel Baptist Church
(1887) File:Lincoln Club Mechanics Temple jeh.jpg, Mechanics Temple, originally the Lincoln Club, at 67 Putnam Avenue
( Rudolph L. Daus, 1889) File:Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew from north.jpg, Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew
(John Welch, 1891) File:Royal Castle Apartments 26 Gates Avenue from east.jpg, Royal Castle Apartments, 20 Gates Avenue
(Wortmann & Braun, 1912)

References

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