Fodor's Expert Review Vinegar Hill

An architectural anomaly between a ConEdison substation and the 300-acre Brooklyn Navy Yard industrial park, this small DUMBO neighborhood, originally settled by Irish immigrants, has pre–Civil War brick and frame houses, Greek Revival buildings, and Federal town houses on its streets. Don't miss the Commandant's House, a 19th-century, Federal-style landmark whose artfully obscured gate lies at Evans Street near Hudson Avenue: now a (rather impressive) private residence, the house is the Navy Yard's oldest surviving structure.