Our street sits on the border of Kensington and Windsor Terrace (KWT). KWT is a quiet (but not sleepy!) community in South Brooklyn with lots of families, coffee shops, neighborhood restaurants and two of the best green spaces in New York City.
Fort Hamilton Parkway is the closest “main drag” and is home to our neighborhood pub, yoga studio, coffee shops, Italian deli, pizza, Thai takeout joint and an Israeli sandwich shop. There’s also a laundromat on the block in case you need to refresh your wardrobe. All of that is within a 4 minute walk.
A 7 minute walk will take you to another “main drag”, Prospect Avenue. Here you’ll find another host of restaurants (Mexican, French Cuisine & Pizza, Italian) coffee shops, a fantastic wine shop, and local watering hole.
About 10 minutes walk is the incredible Prospect Park. Visit in the summer and you can take out a kayak or peddle boat, run a few laps along the 3 mile inner-loop, skate at the roller rink and cool down in the splash pad, visit the zoo and check out the famous carousel. In the winter, there’s ice skating, peaceful wooded trails and the year round farmer’s markets.
A 5 minute walk south has you at Church Avenue, a smorgasbord of produce shops, halal butchers, take-out options and small grocers. This is also near our closest big-box supermarket, Foodtown. A bit further west on Church Avenue is great for a quick drink and bite.
A few minutes to the east is the entrance to the world famous Greenwood Cemetery where you can visit the resting sites of the likes of Leonard Bernstein, Jean Michel Basquiat, Horace Greeley. It is also the site of the Battle of Long Island, a turning point in the Revolutionary War.
