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Carroll Gardens is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, USA. The area is named for Charles Carroll, a revolutionary war veteran who was also the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Carroll Park is a block-long area of playgrounds, walkways and sitting
areas between Court and Smith Streets, with Carroll Street as its
southern boundary and President Street on the northern side. It was
constructed in the late 19th century and is also named for Carroll. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 6.
A
long-standing Italian-American neighborhood of family-run stores,
Carroll Gardens is now sprinkled with cafes, boutiques and antique
shops. It shares its northern boundary with Cobble Hill at Degraw Street and Boerum Hill at Warren Street, while extending south to Hamilton Avenue and Red Hook. Prior to the gentrification movement in the mid-1960s, this part of South Brooklyn
was considered by residents to be part of Red Hook. In the late 1940s,
however, the southern tip of Red Hook was cut off from the rest of the
neighborhood by the building of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and Gowanus Expressway,
and the area now known as Carroll Gardens took on a separate and
distinct character of its own. Today, Carroll Gardens is more middle
class, while Red Hook, which had retained its working-class, waterfront
ambiance, has only recently begun to feel the effects of gentrification.
Before Italian-Americans settled in the area, Carroll Gardens was settled by Irish Americans in the early 19th century and, in the mid-19th century, by Norwegian-Americans, who founded the Norwegian Seamans' Church, an imposing brownstone
structure that was once visited by the King of Norway during an
official visit to the United States, and which still stands (although it
is now a condominium) on the corner of First Place and Clinton Street.
In 1846, Richard Butt created the "front gardens"
to the famous brownstone houses in the oldest section of the
neighborhood. The brownstones are set back from the street by 30–40
feet, to create atypical (for Brooklyn) large front gardens. The Carroll Gardens Historic District,
which includes some of the finest examples of these brownstones with
large front gardens, is bounded roughly by 3rd Place to the south,
President Street to the north, Hoyt Street to the east and Smith Street
to the west. Carroll Gardens has seen a strong French immigration since
the late 1990s, and "Bastille Day" celebrations are held on July 14 of each year.
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