Brooklyn · South Brooklyn

Ditmas Park

Victorian porch-front houses, a quiet Cortelyou Road commercial strip, and a neighborhood that reads more suburb than borough.

Ditmas Park sits inside the larger Flatbush area and reads as something closer to a preserved streetcar suburb than a Brooklyn neighborhood. The Victorian wood-frame houses along Argyle, Rugby, and Westminster Roads set the visual tone, and the Cortelyou Road commercial strip holds the coffee shops, wine bars, and restaurants that give the neighborhood its weekend rhythm. Licensed cannabis retail has started landing on Cortelyou and Flatbush. Adults 21+ build Ditmas Park evenings around porch-front hosting and Cortelyou Road dinners, the kind of slow residential register the Victorian blocks were designed to support.