Brownstone rows sit behind unusually deep front gardens, with storefronts along Court and Smith Streets.
What Carroll Gardens looks like
and carry the storefronts, roll down gates and painted signs under three and four storey buildings. Some of the ground floor corners still hold old bakeries and social clubs, alongside newer restaurants and shops. Caputo's Bake Shop held its black tile storefront on Court Street, gold lettering and a green awning over a hand painted snowman in the window, though the bakery itself is no longer open.
Behind those blocks, the side streets are lined with two and three storey brownstone rowhouses in the neo-Grec and Italianate styles, built between 1869 and 1884. Each house sits behind a front yard reaching 33 to 45 feet from the stoop to the curb, far deeper than the usual Brooklyn setback, fenced in iron and planted with roses and shrubs. High stoops climb to the parlor floor, and on a run of houses keeps its original cast iron veranda and columned portico over the ground floor entrances. Linden, maple and plane trees shade the gardens and the sidewalks below.
is the neighborhood's namesake, at Carroll and Smith Streets. Its war memorial and picnic tables sit under plane trees behind a curved iron fence. rises in grey stone at Sackett and Hoyt Streets, twin spires and a rose window over a pointed arch entrance.
Shot in Carroll Gardens
Moonstruck used Cammareri Bros. Bakery at the corner of Sackett and Henry Streets as the storefront where Loretta and Ronny meet. The bakery has since closed. For a Men in Black 3 car chase, the production dressed Court Street and Smith Street as 1969 New York, repainting the street signs and lining the curbs with period cars and taxis over two nights of filming.
Men in Black 3, 2012
Smith Street
Played Court Street and Smith Street, New York City, 1969
For a high speed chase, the production dressed Court Street and Smith Street as New York in 1969. It repainted the street signs, added a fake subway station name and lined the curbs with period cars, trucks and taxis. Filming ran over two nights in May 2011. The chase ended near Court and President Streets, with several side streets closed to parking. Street View
Bolton Hill's three storey rowhouses run in matching groups of red brick and brownstone from the same late nineteenth century decades, with a similar cornice line and uniform stoop height down the block. The park strips down Mount Royal Terrace give a comparable break in the street wall to a deep front yard. Bolton Hill's stoops are white marble rather than brownstone. Its houses also sit close to the sidewalk instead of behind a garden, so a tight frame on the stoop and cornice line holds the match better than a wide one. Try searching brick and brownstone rowhouses now.
Society Hill's brick rowhouses sit behind small walled gardens and marble front steps, one of the few American blocks with a deep set back front yard. The scale is close, three storeys and narrow lots behind a garden wall. Society Hill's houses are Georgian and Federal, a full century earlier than these neo-Grec brownstones, so window proportions and roof lines give it away in anything but a tight garden level frame. Try searching walled garden rowhouses now.
Capitol Hill in Washington, District of Columbia
Capitol Hill's two and three storey brick rowhouses have bay fronts and iron railings from the same late nineteenth century decades, and Eastern Market gives the area a produce and grocery strip the way Court Street works here. The block scale is close enough for a wide establishing shot. Capitol Hill's houses sit close to the sidewalk with no deep front yard. Its bay windows and iron cresting read differently up close, so this match works better for the market street than for the residential rows. Try searching brick rowhouses market street now.
