Park Slope House Tour Returns in June With a Focus on Sustainability
Ticket holders will be able to tour the row houses that form the backbone of the neighborhood’s streetscape as well as a range of housing types in the neighborhood.
Photo by Susan De Vries
Architectural enthusiasts will have an opportunity to sneak a look inside some Park Slope dwellings with the return of the neighborhood’s hour tour. This year’s Park Slope Civic Council tour, the first since 2020, will be focused on sustainability.
On Sunday, June 2 ticket holders will be able to tour the row houses that form the backbone of the neighborhood’s streetscape as well as a range of housing types in the neighborhood. This includes co-ops, condos, and two newly constructed apartment buildings. All have embraced sustainability, according to the organization, from rooftop solar to certified passive homes.
The annual house tour was launched in 1959 to raise awareness of the neighborhood as a desirable place to live and to showcase its impressive architecture. While house tours once proliferated in the Brooklyn as a way to lure potential homeowners to the borough, the number of tours has dropped in recent years. Those that remained were mostly canceled or went virtual during the pandemic, but are slowly returning. This year, in addition to the Park Slope tour, the Prospect Lefferts-Gardens tour returns — and will also take place on June 2. The Brownstoners of Bedford-Stuyvesant hold their annual tour in the fall.
Tickets for the Park Slope tour are $45 per person and are available online. Proceeds from the event will support a small grant program for local arts and cultural organizations.
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I can’t imagine why the Park Slope Civic Council decided to abandon their traditional tour date–the Sunday between Mother’s Day and Memorial day. I tried to contact them (as well as other neighborhood groups that might have a house tour) to avoid a date conflict,
but they were the only ones who didn’t respond. It’s a pity that the only spring house tours are on the same day.
Bob Marvin
President, Lefferts Manor Association