Brooklyn
Sublets in Crown Heights
Caribbean & changing
A large neighborhood with deep Caribbean and Hasidic communities living side by side, grand old apartment houses on Eastern Parkway, and the Brooklyn Museum at its western end. More space for the money than anywhere else this close to Prospect Park.
Also known as
Crown Heights takes in Weeksville and Prospect Place. Listings in any of them show up here.
No sublets in Crown Heights right now. See everything open across the city.
What's in Crown Heights
Names a local would drop, and what each one actually is. Tap any to see it on a map.
culture
Eastern Parkway
The world's first parkway, and the route of the West Indian Day Parade every Labor Day.
nightlife
Franklin Avenue
Dancehall, dive bars and cocktail rooms within a few blocks of each other, busy every night.
food
Nostrand Avenue roti shops
Trinidadian doubles, Jamaican patties and Guyanese cooking, much of it for under ten dollars.
culture
Weeksville Heritage Center
Four surviving houses from one of the first free Black communities in America, founded in 1838.
park
Brower Park
The neighborhood's green centre, with the Brooklyn Children's Museum on its edge.
What Crown Heights is like
Dining
Trinidadian roti, Jamaican patties and Haitian cooking, with Franklin Avenue's newer restaurants layered on top.
Nightlife
Franklin and Nostrand Avenues. Dancehall, dive bars and cocktail rooms within a few blocks of each other.
Green space
Prospect Park, the Botanic Garden and Lincoln Terrace Park at the eastern end.
Getting around
- 2345Franklin Av
- 34Utica Av
- 23Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum
- SBotanic Garden
5subway lines
Why people sublet here
- Eastern Parkway's pre-war apartment buildings
- Caribbean food and the West Indian Day Parade
- Brooklyn Museum, Botanic Garden and Prospect Park at the western edge
- Franklin Avenue's bars and restaurants