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The Cobble Hill Tunnel ( popularly the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel ) of the Long Island Rail Road is an abandoned railroad tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, New York City.
The construction of the tunnel also lowered the LIRR's grade through Cobble Hill.
The Cobble Hill Tunnel and the Long Island Railroad remained the primary means of access to most of central Long Island from Manhattan and New York City.
* Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
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The southern half of the town is in the White Mountain National Forest, accessible via Cobble Hill Trail and Ore Hill Trail from the north.
Companies like Springbok, Cobble Hill, Ravensburger, and Suns Out make this type of specialty puzzle.
Jeanette " Jennie " Jerome was born in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn in 1854, the second of three daughters of financier, sportsman, and speculator Leonard Jerome and his wife Clarissa ( always called Clara ), daughter of Ambrose Hall, a landowner and sometime New York State Assemblyman.
Cobble Hill Park
Cobble Hill is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, USA.
Bordered by Atlantic Avenue on the north, Hicks Street to the west, Smith Street on the east and Degraw Street to the south, Cobble Hill sits adjacent to Boerum Hill and Brooklyn Heights with Carroll Gardens to the south.
The Cobble Hill Historic District covers the majority of the neighborhood.
This historic district does not include portions of the Cobble Hill neighborhood such as the part between Court Street and Smith Street.
With the establishment of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1965, charming and historically important neighborhoods like Cobble Hill got a chance to be safeguarded from developers, and stabilized property values and economic strength for property owners.
According to the Landmark Preservation Commission, the Cobble Hill Historic District is an “ unusually fine 19th century residential area ” and “ retains an aura of the past ” ( 73 ) with its charming streets and architecture.
The Cobble Hill Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Cobble Hill ( or Ponkiesbergh as it was first called ) was originally settled during the 1640s by Dutch farmers.
The name “ Cobble Hill ”, according to various sources, came from the large amount of cobble stones being disposed in the site.
According to the 1840 tax list and street directory, the neighborhood of present Cobble Hill contained 45 houses and 112 residents.
According to the Cobble Hill Historic District Designation Report, the architecture during the 1850s, contained Greek Revival, Romanesque Revival, Italianate style, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne style, French Second Empire, and neo-Grec.
Cobble Hill Park, at the intersection of Congress and Clinton Streets, was reconstructed in 1989 and reflects the brick and stone character of this tree lined neighborhood.
Cobble Hill is also renowned for its private Italianate style brownstone and brick row houses.

Cobble and Tunnel
In 1844 the Cobble Hill Tunnel was dug in Atlantic Street so trains could avoid climbing the hill.
The ferry connected to the foot of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn and the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later part of the Long Island Rail Road ) through the Cobble Hill Tunnel.
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Cobble and was
Until the 1970s, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens were, together, known as " South Brooklyn ", even though they are in the northwest portion of the modern borough, because they were south of Atlantic Street ( now Atlantic Avenue ), which was the southern boundary of the City of Brooklyn ( now Brooklyn Heights and Downtown Brooklyn ) during part of the 19th Century.
In place of Cobble Hill park was Second Unitarian Church ( Brooklyn, New York ) designed by Jacob Wrey Mould
Much of the brownstone quarried in New Jersey and the upper Hudson was placed on barges with lumber and brick and shipped through the canal to build the neighborhoods of Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, and Park Slope.
In the 1950s anything south of Atlantic Avenue was considered South Brooklyn, thus the names " Red Hook " and " South Brooklyn " were applied also to today's Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Columbia Heights and Gowanus neighborhoods.
One of these three victims, Michael Baulch, was strangled and buried at Lake Sam Rayburn and the other two, Charles Cobble and Marty Ray Jones, were abducted together on the afternoon of July 25. Henley himself buried both youths in the boat shed.
Henley was quite insistent, however, and upon his recalling the names of three boys — Cobble, Hilligiest and Jones — whom he and David Brooks had procured for Corll, the police accepted that there was something to his claims, as all three teenagers were listed as missing at Houston Police headquarters.
Jones was last seen along with his friend and flatmate, Charles Cobble, walking along Twenty-seventh street in the company of Henley.
A school friend of Henley whose wife was pregnant at the time of his murder ; Cobble last phoned his father in a state of hysteria claiming he and Jones had been kidnapped by drug dealers.
PDA was founded during the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Massachusetts by Tim Carpenter, Steve Cobble, Kevin Spidel, Mimi Kennedy, Laura Bonham, Bruce Taub, and about two dozen other former staffers and supporters of the Dennis Kucinich for President Campaign who helped organize delegates and activists concerned with the centrist and right leaning trends in the Democratic Party.
Late in the century the term BoCoCa was applied with less success by the medial capital method to encompass these neighborhoods of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, and Carroll Gardens.

Cobble and between
Portions of Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill were granted landmark status in the 1970s and carved out of Red Hook which is a peninsula between Buttermilk Channel, Gowanus Bay and Gowanus Canal at the southern edge of Downtown Brooklyn.
The City Planning initiative also seeks to improve the connections between Downtown and the adjacent neighborhoods of Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, and Fort Greene.

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* Long Island College Hospital, a teaching hospital situated in Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn, New York
South Brooklyn is a region or composite neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, encompassing areas of Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Gowanus, Park Slope, and Boerum Hill.
There are many brownstones throughout numerous New York City neighborhoods, especially in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Park Slope, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Cobble Hill, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn Heights, and Bedford Stuyvesant, which are collectively referred to as the Brownstone Belt.
Brooklyn Community Board 6 is a local governmental body in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that encompasses the neighborhoods of Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Gowanus, and Cobble Hill.
Bergen Street is an express station on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Bergen Street and Smith Street on the border of Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill in Brooklyn.

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