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.
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… and by “Flathbush” I mean: “Flatbush”
I agree with the north, mid, and south slope boundaries given in the initial post. I’ve always thought of Park Slope as being “the area contained by Flathbush, 4th Ave, Prospect Park West, and roughly 15th street” … tho I guess the Prospect Expressway makes sense.
Endless — it’s a state of mind.
It’s funny- when we moved out of the north slope to the other side of the expressway, we told all the old timers we were leaving the slope for our high teen block and they all said- ‘that’s still park slope…what are you taking about’
When we got there, all these really old businesses have signs that say things like: South Slope Bakery, South Slope Deli, South Slope Rehab…etc… Doesn’t seem like such a new term.
I always think of the realtor “north slope” as two areas: that bordered by Flatbush, Cartlon and Atlantic and the area bordered by around Prospect Place, Flatbush, 3rd Ave.
Center slope – 5th Ave. to PPW, Flatbush to 9th Sts (the proposed 1st St. is a very arbitrary cut-off).
South slope used to be 4th Ave. to PPW and 9th St. to the expressway but now it seems to go considerably into the not-yet-former Sunset Park.
Don’t know where this leaves Prospect Place to 9th and from 4th to 5th Aves. but in the recent past those blocks were not seen as being as desirable.
The entire Slope in my mind runs along arterial boundaries – Flatbush Ave., 4th Ave., the Prospect Expressway and Prospect Park West.
In the eyes of realtors, park slope never ends…I live in Park Slope Bay.
“south south slope would be from 15th st. to the expressway”
Technically, that’s Slippery Slope.
neighborhoods don’t have ‘borders’. They are not legal or political subdivisions.
We just bought a place on the border of Park-Stuy and Bed-Slope. We can smell Prospect Park on good days.