Welcome to Wallabout, Brooklyn’s wooden-house wonderland
Eye On Real Estate
It’s a wonderland for wood-frame houses built before the Civil War.
Welcome to Wallabout, where some of Brooklyn’s finest architectural eye candy can be found. Just ignore the roar of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and super-busy Park Avenue beneath it.
They run right through this neighborhood south of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which has hundreds of historic homes — including New York City’s largest collection of mid-19th Century wood-frame cottages.
Famed poet and former Brooklyn Eagle editor Walt Whitman lived in the area, and referred to it in his writing as “the Wallabout.” Though you wouldn’t know by looking at it because there’s no historic marker on the house, 99 Ryerson St. was where he lived and wrote “Leaves of Grass.”