See the ‘Sophie’s Choice’ house and other Victorian Flatbush homes
Eye on Real Estate: One of the largest collections of Victorian wood-frame houses in the entire country can be found right here in Brooklyn.
Victorian Flatbush, built more than a century ago, is filled with stand-alone homes with eye-pleasing features like porches and turrets. Architectural flourishes call to mind antebellum mansions, chalets in the Alps or Tudor homes in Midwestern suburbs.
Eleven micro-neighborhoods, some landmarked and some not, comprise the area. The architecture in all of them is lovely and comforting to look at during this terrible moment when New York is in coronavirus lockdown.
The other day, I walked from my work-from-home Bay Ridge apartment to one of the micro-neighborhoods, Prospect Park South. I hereby offer the photos I took as a virtual tour of this historic area, to give your brains a break from coronavirus news.