Architectural eye candy — and celebs, we’re fairly certain — on Brooklyn’s Gold Coast, AKA Clinton Avenue
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Ah, the gorgeous Gold Coast.
That’s what Clinton Avenue was called more than a century ago when a high concentration of Brooklyn’s wealthiest citizens congregated in Clinton Hill and did their share of luxury home-building.
In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, many big-bucks Brooklynites followed oil tycoon Charles Pratt’s example — he constructed mansions for his sons on Clinton Avenue — and also built splendid homes on the seven-block section of the avenue between Myrtle and Atlantic Avenues.