Guidebook for Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn

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Renata And Howard
Guidebook for Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn

Getting Around

This is the Prospect Park subway station with the Q & B trains. It's only 4 stops and 20 minutes into Manhattan, and only 8 minutes walk from the house!
50 locals recommend
Sterling St station
Lincoln Road
50 locals recommend
This is the Prospect Park subway station with the Q & B trains. It's only 4 stops and 20 minutes into Manhattan, and only 8 minutes walk from the house!
This is Sterling Street Subway station with the 2 & 5 trains into Manhattan and only 8 minutes walk from the house!
50 locals recommend
Sterling St station
Lincoln Road
50 locals recommend
This is Sterling Street Subway station with the 2 & 5 trains into Manhattan and only 8 minutes walk from the house!

Essentials

Drugstore for all toiletries, medicines etc. Located on the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Lincoln Road @ 542 Flatbush Avenue.
15 locals recommend
Thriftway Pharmacy
542 Flatbush Ave
15 locals recommend
Drugstore for all toiletries, medicines etc. Located on the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Lincoln Road @ 542 Flatbush Avenue.
The biggest and best supermarket in the neighborhood. Located next to the Q/B subway stop on Lincoln Road.
Lincoln Market
The biggest and best supermarket in the neighborhood. Located next to the Q/B subway stop on Lincoln Road.

Food scene

Located at: 1146 Nostrand Avenue Excellent local Italian restaurant a few minutes from the apartment! If you need to have a delicious sit-down dinner in the neighborhood with people who make their own pasta, go to Camillo. It’s a nice-looking Roman cuisine restaurant with brick walls and wooden tables, and they serve things like porchetta, octopus, and pinsas (a.k.a. oval pizzas). They also have your typical Roman pastas like carbonara and cacio e pepe, and there’s a bar where you can drink a well made negroni or two!
60 locals recommend
Camillo
1146 Nostrand Ave.
60 locals recommend
Located at: 1146 Nostrand Avenue Excellent local Italian restaurant a few minutes from the apartment! If you need to have a delicious sit-down dinner in the neighborhood with people who make their own pasta, go to Camillo. It’s a nice-looking Roman cuisine restaurant with brick walls and wooden tables, and they serve things like porchetta, octopus, and pinsas (a.k.a. oval pizzas). They also have your typical Roman pastas like carbonara and cacio e pepe, and there’s a bar where you can drink a well made negroni or two!
Wonderful local Italian with a well priced, delicious menu and a charming outdoor space.
184 locals recommend
Bonafini
663 Flatbush Ave
184 locals recommend
Wonderful local Italian with a well priced, delicious menu and a charming outdoor space.
Risbo is a counter-service place that looks more like a nice Soho boutique than a restaurant. But it is, in fact, a restaurant, and it serves rotisserie platters with your choice of protein (like duck, lamb, or a whole roasted fish) plus some vegetable sides. If you want something a little lighter, get a grain bowl or salad - and there’s also a full bar in case you want a drink!
81 locals recommend
Risbo
701 Flatbush Ave
81 locals recommend
Risbo is a counter-service place that looks more like a nice Soho boutique than a restaurant. But it is, in fact, a restaurant, and it serves rotisserie platters with your choice of protein (like duck, lamb, or a whole roasted fish) plus some vegetable sides. If you want something a little lighter, get a grain bowl or salad - and there’s also a full bar in case you want a drink!
This casual Middle Eastern spot has about 10 tables and a few beers and wines available, but we like it best for takeout. It’s a block from the B/Q subway stop, so it’s a good place to grab a bite on your way into or out of the neighborhood, and it’s also within eyeshot of Prospect Park, in case you want to eat some shawarma at a picnic table while watching people walk their kids around on leashes. Whatever you order, make sure to ask for extra hot sauce!
36 locals recommend
Kulushkat
1137 Washington Ave
36 locals recommend
This casual Middle Eastern spot has about 10 tables and a few beers and wines available, but we like it best for takeout. It’s a block from the B/Q subway stop, so it’s a good place to grab a bite on your way into or out of the neighborhood, and it’s also within eyeshot of Prospect Park, in case you want to eat some shawarma at a picnic table while watching people walk their kids around on leashes. Whatever you order, make sure to ask for extra hot sauce!
Great local cafe 5 mins walk from the house!
110 locals recommend
PLG Coffee House and Tavern
499 Rogers Ave
110 locals recommend
Great local cafe 5 mins walk from the house!
El Patron is a casual Mexican restaurant about a block away from Prospect Park. It has two connected spaces with a ton of big tables for groups, as well as some sidewalk seating during the summer. We particularly like the al pastor tacos and the fact that the chips and salsa are free, but there’s a huge menu of burritos, fajitas, and house-special tacos as well.
39 locals recommend
Taqueria El Patron Mexican Grill
51 Lincoln Rd
39 locals recommend
El Patron is a casual Mexican restaurant about a block away from Prospect Park. It has two connected spaces with a ton of big tables for groups, as well as some sidewalk seating during the summer. We particularly like the al pastor tacos and the fact that the chips and salsa are free, but there’s a huge menu of burritos, fajitas, and house-special tacos as well.
Best coffee shop in the neighborhood and 5 minutes away at 465 Rogers Avenue.
9 locals recommend
hamlet coffee company
465 Rogers Ave
9 locals recommend
Best coffee shop in the neighborhood and 5 minutes away at 465 Rogers Avenue.
& Sons Ham Bar
447 Rogers Ave
Kingfisher
Corner Pizza and Wine
406 Roger's Ave
Not to be missed! Delicious freshly made bagels for a real deal New York experience! Order an everything bagel with lox, scallion cream cheese, tomato and onion!
15 locals recommend
Flatbush Bagel
557 Flatbush Ave
15 locals recommend
Not to be missed! Delicious freshly made bagels for a real deal New York experience! Order an everything bagel with lox, scallion cream cheese, tomato and onion!
Best Indian food in the neighborhood!
59 locals recommend
King of Tandoor
600 Flatbush Ave
59 locals recommend
Best Indian food in the neighborhood!
Amy Thai Bistro
37 locals recommend
Ix Restaurant Food Coffee & Cacao
43 Lincoln Rd
37 locals recommend
Aunts et Uncles
25 locals recommend
Edie Jo’s
630 Flatbush Ave
25 locals recommend
17 locals recommend
Honey Badger
67 Fenimore St
17 locals recommend
Delicious Haitian food!
12 locals recommend
Zanmi restaurant
1206 Nostrand Ave.
12 locals recommend
Delicious Haitian food!
Hands down the best empanadas in Brooklyn! Have some delivered for a delicious night in with Netflix!
18 locals recommend
Empanada City
363 Lincoln Rd
18 locals recommend
Hands down the best empanadas in Brooklyn! Have some delivered for a delicious night in with Netflix!
Excellent local seafood restaurant.
Sweet Catch BK
Excellent local seafood restaurant.
Cinnamon Girl
Silver Rice
Antojitos del Patron
30 locals recommend
Gino's Trattoria & Brick Oven Pizza
548 Flatbush Ave
30 locals recommend

Drinks & Nightlife

Nice local cocktail bar a few minutes walk from the house! Located at 1066 Nostrand Avenue.
10 locals recommend
Bar Bayeux
1066 Nostrand Ave.
10 locals recommend
Nice local cocktail bar a few minutes walk from the house! Located at 1066 Nostrand Avenue.
Fiona's Bar
201 locals recommend
Midwood Flats
577 Flatbush Ave
201 locals recommend

Parks & Nature

Brooklyn's Beautiful main park only 10 minute walk away! Perfect for a nice walk, bike ride or a run.
3418 locals recommend
Prospect Park
3418 locals recommend
Brooklyn's Beautiful main park only 10 minute walk away! Perfect for a nice walk, bike ride or a run.
Gorgeous, peaceful nature only 10 minute walk away! One of the highlights is the stunning Japanese Garden.
2030 locals recommend
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington Ave
2030 locals recommend
Gorgeous, peaceful nature only 10 minute walk away! One of the highlights is the stunning Japanese Garden.
Lovely local zoo that’s perfect for young children!
540 locals recommend
Prospect Park Zoo
450 Flatbush Ave
540 locals recommend
Lovely local zoo that’s perfect for young children!

Arts & Culture

Very impressive collections in a very beautiful setting! Not to be misssed! A fifteen minute walk or 7 minute taxi ride away.
3011 locals recommend
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Pkwy
3011 locals recommend
Very impressive collections in a very beautiful setting! Not to be misssed! A fifteen minute walk or 7 minute taxi ride away.
Open air summer music festival events.
113 locals recommend
Prospect Park Bandshell
141 Prospect Park West
113 locals recommend
Open air summer music festival events.
859 locals recommend
Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Ave
859 locals recommend

Shopping

This is not only by far the best wine & spirits store in Prospect Lefferts Gardens but perhaps all of Brooklyn! Wonderful curated selection of over 400 small producer, domestic and international wines as well as 100 artisanal spirits! Located at 492 Flatbush by the Q & B subway entrance on Flatbush Avenue. They deliver if you order online.
18 locals recommend
DRINK PLG Wine & Spirits
492 Flatbush Ave
18 locals recommend
This is not only by far the best wine & spirits store in Prospect Lefferts Gardens but perhaps all of Brooklyn! Wonderful curated selection of over 400 small producer, domestic and international wines as well as 100 artisanal spirits! Located at 492 Flatbush by the Q & B subway entrance on Flatbush Avenue. They deliver if you order online.
Gift shop, fun, eclectic items
20 locals recommend
Awesome Brooklyn
617 Flatbush Ave
20 locals recommend
Gift shop, fun, eclectic items