When it comes to Brooklyn neighborhoods, Clinton Hill plays crowd favorite. Clinton Hill is a neighborhood in north-central borough of Brooklyn, New York City. It is bordered by Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Prospect Heights, Williamsburg, and Fort Greene. Celebrated for its diversity of people, restaurants, and activities, Clinton Hill caters to Pratt Institute students and ambitious professionals alike.

Artsy but not over-the-top and cool but not unapproachable, this laid-back neighborhood deserves its amiable reputation. Add accessibility to Clinton Hill’s affability, and it’s easy to understand why this neighborhood has so many fans. Right now, before our very eyes, Clinton Hill is undergoing an explosion of culture, arts, retail, food and neighborhood improvement that in 50 years may be considered one of the most important community-inspired growth periods since legendary activist Jane Jacobs saved the West Village and SoHo in the 1960s.

Call it the Clinton Hill Revival, where a combination of factors — namely people and persistence — have come together to catapult this once-checkered area into one of the most attractive, affordable and interesting urban neighborhoods in the United States.