Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

Clinton Hill is a small neighborhood in north-central Brooklyn, New York. It is bordered on the east by Bedford-Stuyvesant, on the west by Fort Greene, on the north by Wallabout and on the south by Altantic or Fulton Avenues.

The Pratt Institute of Art is located here, as well as many Brownstone homes. The poet Marianne Moore lived and worked for many years in an apartment house on Cumberland Avenue. Her apartment, which is lovingly recalled in Elizabeth Bishop's essay, "Efforts of Affection", has been preserved exactly as it existed during Moore's lifetime--though not in Clinton Hill. To see the Moore apartment you need to travel to Center City Philadephia, to the Rosenbach Museum. After her death, the furnishings and contents of Marianne Moore's apartment were purchased by the Rosenbach brothers, reknowned collectors of literary ephemera. These pieces were then painstakingly reassembled in the top floor of their Philadelphia townhouse.

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