‘Secret Garden’ nitespot In Grove Place alley?
On the back side of Livingston Street, there’s an alley that only Brooklyn trivia buffs know by name – Grove Place.
The urban-picturesque hideaway with mysterious metal-encased fire stairs descending graffiti-scrawled brick walls is a secret spot unknown to almost everybody, aside from Downtown Brooklynites who sneak there to take cigarette breaks or dump garbage.
That’s about to change, thanks to a Downtown Brooklyn Partnership campaign to clean up the dead-end, single-lane snippet of a street – but not so much that it loses its edginess – and introduce it to the world.