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Orange, Pineapple & Cranberry Streets
Three short blocks of Brooklyn Heights with the best names and the best doorways in the city.
- Where
- Orange St, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights Open in Google Maps ↗
- Cost
- Free
- Good with
- A date
- Go when
- Late afternoon, on the way to the Promenade
Orange, Pineapple and Cranberry run parallel between Henry and Columbia Heights, and walking all three takes about ten minutes. Federal and Greek Revival houses, wooden doorways, almost no traffic — this is the part of Brooklyn Heights people mean when they call it the best-preserved neighborhood in New York.
What to know
They come out at the Promenade, so fold them into that walk rather than making a separate trip. The naming is genuinely unexplained; the fruit story is folklore. These are residential blocks, so keep it quiet.