Updated, 7:42 a.m.

Good morning on this gloomy Tuesday.

The second stop in our Suburbs in the City series: Ditmas Park in Brooklyn.

A step off the B or Q train is a step into what feels like a real estate version of the game Tetris: Homes of all colors and shapes — Victorian, Tudor, Colonial Revival, bungalow — that somehow fit effortlessly together.

But Ditmas Park, named for the early settler Jan Jansen Van Ditmarsen Jr., was once farmland. It was developed from rural to residential in the early 20th century and, by the 1920s, had become part of the city’s subway system.

Today, though Ditmas Park proper spans only eight blocks, its charm spills over those borders.

Cortelyou Road, akin to the main street of a cozy town, is abuzz with boutique-like businesses. The neighboring streets — Westminster, Argyle, Rugby and Marlborough Roads, East 16th and East 17th Streets and beyond — are quiet and still. (“Please don’t honk,” a sign reads.)