Prospect Heights
Compact, but the specialty shots land.
Prospect Heights is small — just a handful of blocks between Park Slope and Crown Heights — but punches well above its footprint for specialty coffee. It's anchored on one side by Prospect Park and on the other by the Brooklyn Museum and Library, and the cafés between them have turned into some of the more interesting openings in south Brooklyn in the last few years.
Canyon Coffee, the LA import with a cult following, opened here in 2026 bringing Regenerative Organic–certified roasting. Caffè de Martini imports from a Turin family roaster operating since 1930. Hungry Ghost's Prospect Heights branch is the neighborhood's daily workhorse. Four genuinely strong specialty shops in a handful of blocks is enough to make this a destination rather than a pass-through.
Note: we'll cover Prospect Heights with four standouts instead of five — the neighborhood's true specialty cluster is tight, and we'd rather keep the bar high than pad the list.
Top 4 shops we're watching
A preview of the specialty coffee we plan to cover in full when this neighborhood goes live.
- 1
Hungry Ghost — Prospect Heights
183 Sterling Pl
Single-origin pour-overs and cold brew on tap, from the Brooklyn chainlet with an exclusive Stumptown partnership.
- 2
Canyon Coffee
601 Vanderbilt Ave
LA-based specialty roaster with Regenerative Organic Certified sourcing; opened 2026.
- 3
Lincoln Station
409 Lincoln Pl
Polished neighborhood café sourcing from local roasters, with homemade cakes and wine on tap.
- 4
Caffè de Martini
609 Vanderbilt Ave
Authentic Italian espresso bar importing from a family roastery in Turin operating since 1930.
Why Prospect Heights isn't fully live yet
We cover new neighborhoods one at a time, and when we do, we pull live hours, Google ratings, photos, and amenity data on every shop — plus editorial notes that reflect an actual visit. That takes care, and we'd rather get it right than launch half a guide. Prospect Heights is on the roadmap.
Meanwhile, our Bushwick and Williamsburg guides are fully live.