Closing Bell: Where Does Park Slope End?
That’s the subject of an online discussion over at Brooklynian, where one inquirer asked just where the heck Center Slope is, as opposed to North Slope and South. One possibility: “Named streets are North Slope; Center Slope is 1st St to 9th St; South Slope is 9th St to 16th St; South of the prospect…
That’s the subject of an online discussion over at Brooklynian, where one inquirer asked just where the heck Center Slope is, as opposed to North Slope and South. One possibility: “Named streets are North Slope; Center Slope is 1st St to 9th St; South Slope is 9th St to 16th St; South of the prospect expressway is wish-it-was-Park Slope.” There are some offerings of Slopes East and West, too. They offer up NY Mag‘s boundaries (Stretching from Prospect Park West to 4th Avenue, Park Place to Prospect Expressway) and epodunk.com‘s (Bounded by 4th Avenue, Flatbush Avenue and Prospect Park West), as well as this assessment: “It means whatever the Real Estate Agent thinks that it means on any given day.” On Curbed, too.
Photo by five2510thstreet.
Question #1: Does it matter what the terms used to mean, or can they be redefined?
Quesiton #2: If they can be redefined, but should the basis for refinintion be?
Park Slope vicinity is any block that doesn’t have a used tire shop or a bodega selling halal meat.
slopefarm,
“Park Slope” vicinity, as used in NY Times RE ads is easy. It’s anything that looks vaguely like a brownstone that isn’t in “Brooklyn Heights vicinity” 🙂
sorry i meant
prospect park west to 5th ave
16th st to union street.
thats it.. no more..
I’m feeling generous today; I’m willing to say South Slope extends to the expressway. On stingy days, it ends behind my house.
The trickier question is defining the boundaries of “Park Slope and vicinity” as used in the Times RE classifieds.
park slope is prospect park west to 5th ave.
16th st to flatbush ave.
DEAL WITH IT.
Since the name “Park Slope” literally means something like the area sloping down from the Park, I am going with Union Street to 15th Street. The Western border is a totally different conversation…
Petebklyn, some neighborhoods have boundaries because there are physical boundaries (e.g.: the northern boundary of Greenpernt is absolutely the Newtown Creek) and others have boundaries based on common usage. When I first started hanging out in Park Slope (first “serious” girlfriend; she was something else), the definition was the “name streets,” or some folks thought you had to be in the historic district. I watched the southern boundary get expanded to Ninth Street. Then brokers started marketing properties south of Ninth as “South Slope” and people of a certain demographic kept moving there and now I also agree with the north, mid, and south slope boundaries given in the initial post. I have never been able to make that leap across the expressway.
One thing for damn sure, there ain’t no BoCoCa, unless that is your cutsie name for the thing your kid just made in her Huggies.
Well, until fairly recently, ads for my neighborhood, PLG, were under “Park Slope vicinity”, when they weren’t under “Flatbush”. Prospect Heights and Sunset Park were also “Park Slope vicinity. Cobble Hill and Boreum Hill were “Brooklyn Heights Vicinity”. RE people can be quite creative.
FWIW, when I lived in the South Slope [early’70s], most people considered 15th Street to be the boundary. The North Slope was the area near Flatbush Avenue–streets north of Lincoln Place–and it was considered to be quite dangerous (as was anything west of 7th Avenue–or 8th Avenue, south of 9th Street). I hear it might have changed a bit 🙂