Located next to Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill and Carroll Gardens, compact Cobble Hill offers all the perks of upscale city living, including excellent schools, while retaining a friendly, intimate village atmosphere—this is the kind of neighborhood with busy playgrounds. Specialty businesses, sidewalk cafés and established restaurants coexist with hip new arrivals on the quiet streets, and the proximity to the rising Columbia St. waterfront opens up the neighborhood into the harbor.