Manbeck, the official Brooklyn historian, but also to keep horses from nibbling on them. Norway maples and Carolina poplars (now gone) were also set back on the building line - not only for sake of esthetics, according to Prof. But he played up their convenience.īy 1899, houses began appearing on minimum lots of 50 by 100 feet, and were set back 30 feet from the curb. He made sure utility lines and the subway being built went in below street level. The idea, as it was put then, was "Rus in Urbe" or "Country in the City."įor the developer, who gave British names to the streets, the emphasis was on country. That's just what Dean Alvord had in mind in 1892 when he bought 40 acres from the Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church. "It's really like a suburb within the big city." Along with plenty of room, she also has gardening to look forward to - two Higan weeping cherry trees like the ones in the nearby Brooklyn Botanic Garden and spring bulbs she just planted in the yard. Cheung, who is expecting a baby in February. "The first couple of weeks people brought over cookies and plants, and we were invited to an afternoon tea," said Ms. "It's almost like walking into another era," said Maria Cheung, who moved last November with her husband, Bill Tam, from a two-bedroom co-op in nearby Kensington into a spacious $325,000 six-bedroom Victorian on Westminster Road. And on Marlborough Road a brick colonial has a stained-glass skylight in the bathroom, marble fireplaces and a carriage house. On Rugby Road, there is an English country garden and a Swiss chalet faces an Italian villa. They bear the letters "PPS" and lead into Prospect Park South, a landmark historic district in the northwest corner of Flatbush.Īlong Buckingham Road, the turn-of-the-century houses include Tudor and chateau styles. BRICK stanchions topped with palm and English ivy, adorned with pine in winter and geraniums in spring, stand at the entrances.
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