2. Dennett Place, Carroll Gardens
Dennett Place is a peculiar street in Carroll Gardens, running between Luquer and Nelson Street. It’s really more of an alley made up of two to three storey attached houses. Unlike other similar streets however, these houses are sometimes jokingly called “Hobbit Houses.” The ground level of each house has its own roughly four-foot tall miniature door.
Also somewhat eerily is the uniformity of these tiny doors, one per house. The community however is a tight-knit one where children play on the street and the families have occupied the places for many years. Yet it seems that despite our pesky door-related, no resident really knew why they had small basement doors.
Read more odd facts about Dennett Place here.
