Park Slope#History

Though modern-day Brooklyn is coextensive with Kings County, this was not always the case. South Brooklyn, an area in central Kings County extending to the former Brooklyn city line near Green-Wood Cemetery's southern border, was originally settled by the Canarsee Indians, one of several indigenous Lenape peoples who farmed and hunted on the land. The Lenape typically lived in wigwams, and had larger fishing and hunting communities near freshwater sites on higher land.{{Cite enc-nyc2|page=978}}{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2012|p=5}}; {{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2016|ps=.|p=7}} Several Lenape roads crossed the landscape{{cite book|last=Bolton|first=Reginald P.|url=https://archive.org/details/indianpathsingr00boltgoog|title=Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis|publisher=Museum of the American Indian, Heye foundation|year=1922|isbn=978-0-343-11305-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/indianpathsingr00boltgoog/page/n169 129]–146}} and were later widened into "ferry roads" by 17th-century Dutch settlers, since they were used to provide transport to the waterfront. One was the Flatbush Road, running roughly north–south to the east of the path of present-day Flatbush Avenue. Just north of modern-day Park Slope was the Jamaica Road, running east to Jamaica, Queens, on what is now the path of Fulton Street.{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2012|p=6}}; {{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2016|ps=.|p=8}}{{cite book|last=Armbruster|first=Eugene L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZiIVAAAAYAAJ|title=The Ferry Road on Long Island|publisher=G. Quattlander|year=1919|page=13|access-date=March 24, 2020}}

The first European settlement occurred in 1637-1639 when Willem Kieft, the Dutch West India Company's director, purchased almost all land in what is now Brooklyn and Queens.{{cite book|last=Stiles|first=H.R.|url=https://archive.org/details/ahistorycitybro01stilgoog|title=A History of the City of Brooklyn|publisher=subscription|year=1870|access-date=March 24, 2020|issue=v. 3}}{{rp|43–44}} The area was used as farmland over the next two centuries.

During the American Revolutionary War, on August 27, 1776, the Park Slope area served as the backdrop for the beginning of the Battle of Long Island. In this battle, over 10,000 British soldiers and Hessian mercenaries routed outnumbered American forces, which resulted in the British occupation of Long and Staten Islands.{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1973|ps=.|p=iii}}{{cite book|last=Fischer|first=David Hackett|title=Washington's Crossing|publisher=Oxford University Press US|year=2006|isbn=978-0-19-518159-3|location=New York|page=99|author-link=David Hackett Fischer}}{{cite book|last=McCullough|first=David|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780743226721|url-access=registration|title=1776|publisher=Simon and Schuster Paperback|year=2006|isbn=0-7432-2672-0|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780743226721/page/178 178]|author-link=David McCullough}} The Battle Pass site is now preserved in Prospect Park,{{Cite web|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/B073/monuments/91|title=Prospect Park Monuments - Battle Pass Historic Marker : NYC Parks|website=nycgovparks.org|access-date=July 3, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/B073/monuments/920|title=Prospect Park Monuments - Line of Defense : NYC Parks|website=nycgovparks.org|access-date=July 3, 2019}} while on Fifth Avenue, there is a reconstruction of the Old Stone House, a farmhouse where a countercharge covered the American retreat.

Transit from Park Slope improved in the early 19th century. The Brooklyn, Jamaica and Flatbush Turnpike Company was incorporated in 1809 to widen the Flatbush and Jamaica ferry roads,{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2012|p=7}}; {{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2016|ps=.|p=9}} prior to the establishment of the Fulton Ferry to Manhattan in 1814.{{Cite news|last=Roberts|first=Sam|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/30/nyregion/how-a-ferry-ride-helped-make-brooklyn-the-original-suburb.html|title=How a Ferry Ride Helped Make Brooklyn the Original Suburb|date=December 29, 2014|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 26, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Afterward, stagecoaches started running on Flatbush Road in 1830, with omnibus service following four years later. The land comprising what is now Park Slope was still mostly undeveloped {{Circa|1810}}. There were a couple of houses on and around Prospect Hill, a tavern, and a resort; the section of Flatbush Road through present-day Prospect Park contained ponds of standing water, which caused fevers and other illnesses.{{cite book|last1=Ostrander|first1=S.M.|url=https://archive.org/details/ahistorycitybro01ostrgoog|title=A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County|last2=Black|first2=A.|publisher=subscription|year=1894|access-date=March 26, 2020|issue=v. 1}}{{rp|135}} Soon afterward, the land was split up into rectangular parcels, which were bought by numerous people and cultivated as farmland. As in the rest of Kings County, the farmland was likely dependent on slave labor.{{cite book|last1=Linder|first1=M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zuFSUZqQaiIC|title=Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn|last2=Zacharias|first2=L.S.|publisher=University of Iowa Press|year=1999|isbn=978-0-87745-714-5|access-date=March 26, 2020}}{{rp|81}}

The farm parcels were further split in the 19th century, allowing for the development of smaller urban lots. After Brooklyn was incorporated as a city in 1834,{{Cite book|title=Historical sketch of the city of Brooklyn|date=1840|publisher=J. T. Bailey|location=Brooklyn|oclc=3325513|ol=6906515M}}{{cite book|last1=Bishop|first1=W.G.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=40TexDJvt2EC&pg=PA143|title=Manual of the Common Council of the City of Brooklyn for ...|last2=McCloskey|first2=H.|publisher=The Council|year=1888|page=143|access-date=March 26, 2020}} the Commissioners Plan of 1839 was devised, a street plan that extended to South Brooklyn.{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2012|p=8}}; {{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2016|ps=.|p=10}}{{cite book|last=Ment|first=David|title=The people of Brooklyn : a history of two neighborhoods|publisher=Brooklyn Educational & Cultural Alliance|year=1980|isbn=978-0-933250-04-8|location=Brooklyn|pages=15|oclc=7444528}}{{cite web|url=http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-f01d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99|title=Map of the city of Brooklyn, as laid out by commissioners, and confirmed by acts of the Legislature of the state of New York : made from actual surveys, the farm lines and names of original owners, being accurately drawn from authentic sources, containing also a map of the Village of Williamsburgh, and part of the city of New-York : compiled from accurate surveys & documents and showing the true relative position of all|website=NYPL Digital Collections|access-date=August 7, 2019}} Park Slope was originally located in the northern section of the Eighth Ward, which at the time was the city's least populous ward.{{cite news|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/clip/47365202/|title=Eighth Ward|date=May 23, 1868|work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle|access-date=February 2, 2020|page=2|via=Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com {{open access}}}}

The Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad started running on Atlantic Avenue, north of Park Slope, in 1836.{{Cite news|last=Pollak|first=Michael|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/nyregion/answers-about-lirr-train-sets-and-a-brooklyn-park.html|title=L.I.R.R. Train Sets and a Brooklyn Park|date=June 17, 2011|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 20, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2012|ps=.|p=9}}; {{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2016|ps=.|p=10}} The railroad's presence did not hasten the slow rate of residential growth in South Brooklyn because the locomotives provided slow and inefficient service. Horse-drawn railcar companies provided competition to the railroad: the first, the Brooklyn City Railroad, was founded in 1853.{{cite book|last=Cudahy|first=Brian J.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cJGUDwAAQBAJ|title=How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County|publisher=Fordham University Press|year=2009|isbn=978-0-8232-2211-7|access-date=April 6, 2020}}{{rp|25}} Other streetcar routes were founded, including a line on Flatbush Avenue in 1875, as well as the Atlantic Avenue Company's Fifth Avenue and Ninth Avenue lines, the latter of which served the Eighth Ward directly.

File:Winter snow storm (50728305087).jpgThe first plans to develop modern-day Park Slope arose in 1847 when Colonel Daniel Richards requested permission from the Brooklyn Common Council to develop the Eighth Ward's streets. Richards also proposed the renovation of the nearby Gowanus Creek into a canal, including draining the marshes in its watershed.{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2012|ps=.|p=8}} Between 1849 and 1860, under a decree by the New York Legislature, the Gowanus Creek was deepened.{{cite web|url=http://www.gowanuscanal.org/history.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805203904/http://gowanuscanal.org/history.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 5, 2012|title=Gowanus Canal History|website=The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club|access-date=January 4, 2017}} Simultaneously, a local lawyer and railroad developer named Edwin Clarke Litchfield (1815–1885) purchased large tracts of what was then farmland, erecting his Litchfield Villa on the east side of the neighborhood in 1857.{{cite web|url=http://www.prospectpark.org/history_nature/historic_places/h_villa|title=Litchfield Villa|year=2008|work=Prospect Park Alliance: Official WebSite of Prospect Park|publisher=Prospect Park Alliance|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029064752/http://www.prospectpark.org/history_nature/historic_places/h_villa|archive-date=October 29, 2008}}{{cite book|last=Lancaster|first=Clay|url=https://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/handbook.html|title=Prospect Park Handbook|publisher=Long Island University Press|year=1972|isbn=978-0-913252-06-2|edition=2nd|location=New York}} Through the American Civil War era, Litchfield sold off much of his land to residential developers.

Development increased with the planning and creation of Prospect Park, just east of modern-day Park Slope. In February 1860, a group of fifteen commissioners had submitted suggestions for locations of four large parks and three small parks in Brooklyn.{{cite news|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/clip/3137046/|title=Public Parks and Promenades|date=May 29, 1860|work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle|access-date=January 19, 2019|page=2|via=Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com}} {{open access}}{{cite journal|last=Bluestone|first=Daniel M.|year=1987|title=From Promenade to Park: The Gregarious Origins of Brooklyn's Park Movement|journal=American Quarterly|publisher=JSTOR|volume=39|issue=4|pages=529–550|doi=10.2307/2713123|issn=0003-0678|jstor=2713123}} The largest of these proposed parks was a {{convert|320|acre|km2|adj=on}} plot east of Ninth and Tenth Avenue in the Eighth Ward.{{cite news|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/clip/27409545/|title=Prospect Park|date=May 19, 1861|work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle|access-date=January 19, 2019|page=2|via=Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com}} {{open access}} After work was stopped during the Civil War, the proposed park's boundaries were changed, shifting the boundaries slightly west and south.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1868/12/15/archives/prospect-park-progress-of-the-workdescriptive-particulars.html|title=Prospect Park; Progress of the Work—Descriptive Particulars.|date=December 15, 1868|work=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|access-date=January 28, 2019}}{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/annualreportsofb1873broo/annualreportsofb1873broo_djvu.txt|title=Annual reports of the Brooklyn Park Commissioners, 1861–1873|date=1873|publisher=Brooklyn Park Commissioners|page=127|access-date=January 28, 2019|via=Internet Archive}} In 1868, the City of Brooklyn purchased his estate and adjoining property to complete the West Drive and the southern portion of the Long Meadow in Prospect Park, for the then-exorbitant price of $1.7 million (${{Inflation|index=US|value=1.7|start_year=1868|fmt=c}} million in {{Inflation/year|index=US}}).{{cite book|last=Morrone|first=Francis|title=An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn|pages=347–370|year=2001|publisher=Gibbs Smith|location=Salt Lake City|isbn=1586850474}} The modern-day Park Slope was split into the city's 22nd Ward the same year.

By the late 1870s, with horse-drawn rail cars running to the park and the ferry, bringing many rich New Yorkers in the process, urban sprawl dramatically changed the neighborhood into a streetcar suburb. The opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 led to further development in the city of Brooklyn.{{cite book|last1=Benardo|first1=Leonard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xdCL5VWmM4MC&pg=PA41|title=Brooklyn by Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More ..|last2=Weiss|first2=Jennifer|date=2006|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-81479-946-8|page=41}} The Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad extended its Fifth Avenue elevated line to South Brooklyn six years later.{{cite news|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/clip/49142720/|title=One Train Ran|date=June 22, 1889|work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle|access-date=April 20, 2020|page=6|via=newspapers.com {{open access}}}} During the 1890s, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company added electric trolley lines or converted old stagecoach lines to electric service.{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2012|ps=.|p=9}}; {{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2016|ps=.|p=11}}

Many of the large Victorian mansions on Prospect Park West, known as the Gold Coast, were built in the 1880s and 1890s to take advantage of the park views.{{cite web|last1=Newman|first1=Andy|title=Park Slope Historic District Now City's Biggest|url=https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/park-slope-historic-district-now-citys-biggest/|website=City Room|publisher=The New York Times|access-date=February 1, 2019|date=April 17, 2012}} Early colloquial names for the neighborhood included "Prospect Heights" (later applied to the neighborhood north of Prospect Park), "Prospect Hill", and "Park Hill Side", before residents settled on Park Slope.{{cite web|title=Slope, Heights or Hill|url=http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=QkVHLzE4ODkvMDMvMTcjQXIwMTcxMA==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930183621/http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=QkVHLzE4ODkvMDMvMTcjQXIwMTcxMA==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom|work=Brooklyn Eagle|date=March 17, 1889|archive-date=September 30, 2007|url-status=dead|access-date=August 20, 2009}} By 1883, with the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, Park Slope continued to boom and subsequent brick and brownstone structures pushed the neighborhood's borders farther. The 1890 census showed Park Slope to be the richest community in the United States. Realtors and community members saw a clear connection between Park Slope's bucolic setting and the comfort of living there. As the New York Tribune wrote in 1899, "Nature set the park down where it is, and man has embellished her work in laying out great lawns and artificial lakes, in bringing together menageries and creating conservatories, in making roads and driveways, and in doing everything in his power to make the place a pleasant pleasure ground and a charming resort."{{Cite journal|title=Brooklyn's Park Slope: A Place of Fine Homes and Beautiful Surroundings Where Wealth and Taste have Combined to Aid Nature in Making a Dwelling Place of the Highest Class|date=June 4, 1899|journal=New York Tribune}}File:Brooklyn Conservatory of Music jeh.JPG

Baseball had also played a prominent role in the history of the Park Slope area. From 1879 to 1889, the Brooklyn Atlantics played at Washington Park on 5th Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets. When the park was destroyed by a fire, the team moved to two other sites. In 1898, the "New" Washington Park was built between Third and Fourth Avenues and between First and Third Streets near the Gowanus Canal. The team, by this point known as the Dodgers, played to an ever-growing fan base at this location, and team owner Charles Ebbets moved the team to his Ebbets Field stadium in Flatbush for the beginning of the 1913 season.[http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/la/history/ballparks.jsp Dodgers Ballparks] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060320074455/http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/la/history/ballparks.jsp |date=March 20, 2006 }}, accessed May 27, 2006 The Federal League's Brooklyn Tip-Tops rebuilt much of the park in concrete and steel and played there for two years, in 1914 and 1915, before the league folded. A portion of the ballpark's wall still exists today on Fourth Avenue.{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Keith |title=It's a Piece of Baseball History. But for Which Club? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/nyregion/ebbets-field-wall-dodgers.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=27 November 2023 |date=30 March 2017}}

Following Brooklyn's subsumption into the City of Greater New York in 1898 and accelerating in the 1910s, many wealthy and upper middle-class families fled for the suburban life, initially to outlying Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods (such as nearby Flatbush) and thence to more distant locales in Westchester County, Nassau County and New Jersey amid the adoption of the automobile. Manhattan gained economic and cultural dominance in the consolidated city, helped by transportation improvements like the subway, which brought a more heterogeneous population to Brooklyn. Existing families adapted by relocating to exclusive districts in the other boroughs, most notably the Upper East Side. Accordingly, Park Slope gradually became a more working class neighborhood amid the subdivision of the expansive Victorian-era housing stock into apartment buildings and rooming houses.

The socioeconomic changes were slowed by the ongoing development of upscale apartment houses on Prospect Park West and Plaza Street along with infill middle-class buildings throughout the neighborhood. Only a fraction of the area, centered in the traditional Gold Coast district and select adjoining blocks, retained wealthy and upper middle-class residents into the 1940s.{{cite web |url=http://www.1940snewyork.com/ |title = Welcome to 1940s New York: NYC neighborhood profiles from 1943, based on the 1940 Census}} The Emery Roth-designed 35 Prospect Park West, marketed as a competitor to the upscale apartment houses of Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue and Central Park West, opened right before the Great Depression in 1929, and contained a variety of luxury accommodations (including penthouses, duplexes and maisonettes) alongside "just plain apartments".{{Cite web|url=https://www.brownstoner.com/architecture/building-of-the-day-35-prospect-park-west/|title = Building of the Day: 35 Prospect Park West|date = November 3, 2014}} While the building attracted such notable residents as pharmaceutical executive John L. Smith and remained a "solid fortress of wealth" for decades, it ultimately failed to anchor comparable development in the neighborhood.{{cite book|last=McDonald|first=B.|title=Safe Harbor: A Murder in Nantucket|publisher=St. Martin's Publishing Group|year=2007|isbn=978-1-4299-0709-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tR-YoJHIu3wC&pg=PT72|access-date=October 17, 2020|page=72}}

By the 1950s, the working-class Italian-American and Irish-American populations predominated, though this changed by the 1970s as the black and Latino population of the area increased and the white ethnic population began to relocate amid the less exclusive, though effectively segregated, wave of postwar suburbanization.{{cite web|url=http://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/looking-back-how-yuppies-discovered-park-slope/|title=Looking Back: How Yuppies discovered Park Slope|work=The Real Deal|date=October 18, 2007|access-date=June 10, 2014|author=Patterson, Philana}} However, the area straddling Flatbush and Washington Avenues between Prospect Park and Atlantic Avenue began to attract a population that was mostly African-American and West Indian-American, similar to neighboring Crown Heights. This area was increasingly identified as the separate neighborhood of Prospect Heights, a moniker that had previously been used to identify areas of Park Slope outside the Gold Coast.

Some of those that remained reacted violently to the ethnic changes to the neighborhood; for example, white residents of Park Slope attempted to bar African-Americans from participating in after-school programs at William Alexander Middle School in 1966.{{Cite journal|title=Negroes in Park Slope Attacked by Whites: Bombing, Beatings Reported|last=Anekwe|first=Simon|date=March 12, 1966|journal=New York Amsterdam News}} After this failed, white teenagers engaged in firebomb attacks on African-American homes on Fourth Street. In 1968, a street fight between Italian and African-American gangs occurred at Fifth Avenue and President Street, using bricks and bottles as weapons;{{Cite journal|title=Gang Fights Hit 2 Brooklyn Areas: 26 are Seized in Park Slope and East New York|date=February 2, 1968|journal=The New York Times}} in the aftermath of the fight, fourteen African-Americans and three Italian-Americans were arrested.File:ParkSlopeDetails.JPG

On December 16, 1960, two airliners collided above Staten Island, killing 134 people in what was the worst U.S. aviation disaster at that time. One of the airplanes, a Douglas DC-8 operated by United Airlines, was able to stay airborne for a few miles before crashing near the corner of Sterling Place and Seventh Avenue.{{cite news|url=http://psreader.com/article44.html|title=Pillar of Fire, Recalling the Day the Sky Fell, December 16, 1960|author=Nathaniel Altman|date=October 7, 2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041015025442/http://psreader.com/article44.html|archive-date=October 15, 2004|publisher=Park Slope Reader}} Everyone on board was instantly killed, except for one 11-year-old boy, Stephen Baltz, who died the following night at New York Methodist Hospital.{{cite web|url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/park-slope-plane-crash-a-little-brother-remembers/?_r=0|title=Park Slope Plane Crash | A Little Brother Remembers|author=William A Baltz|date=December 16, 2010|website=The New York Times|access-date=April 17, 2016}} Six people on the ground were also killed.Disaster in Fog — New York Times — December 17, 1960

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the renovation of a now-$4.8 million brownstone along Berkeley Place{{cite web|url=http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130919/park-slope/brownstone-that-spurred-park-slope-gentrification-for-sale-for-49-million|title=Brownstone That Spurred Park Slope Gentrification For Sale For $4.8 Million|work=DNA Info|date=September 19, 2013|access-date=June 10, 2014|author=Albrecht, Leslie|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219084944/http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130919/park-slope/brownstone-that-spurred-park-slope-gentrification-for-sale-for-49-million|archive-date=December 19, 2014}} sparked a trend where the rest of the brownstones were cleaned up and the grittiness of the neighborhood began to fade.{{cite web|url=http://savetheslope.blogspot.com/2010/10/blog-post.html|title=A "Cinderella" Story On Berkeley Place|work=Save the Slope|date=October 12, 2010|access-date=June 10, 2014}} Young professionals began to buy and renovate brownstones (which only cost around $15,000–35,000 at the time), often converting them from rooming houses into single and two-family homes.{{cite web|last=Hamill|first=Pete|url=http://nymag.com/anniversary/40th/50654/|title=40th Anniversary - Pete Hamill Revisits His Native Brooklyn - New York Magazine|work=New York|date=September 28, 2008|access-date=June 10, 2014}} Preservationists helped secure landmark status for many of the neighborhood's blocks of historic row houses, brownstone, and Queen Anne, Renaissance Revival, and Romanesque mansions. After the 1973 creation of the landmark district, primarily above 7th Avenue, the rate of gentrification was sped up, and throughout the 1970s, the area saw an influx of young professional couples.{{cite web|author=Jim Yardley|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/14/nyregion/park-slope-reshaped-money-rents-prices-rise-some-fear-for-neighborhood-s-soul.html|title=Park Slope, Reshaped by Money; As Rents and Prices Rise, Some Fear for Neighborhood's Soul - The New York Times|location=New York City; Park Slope (Nyc)|work=The New York Times|date=March 14, 1998|access-date=June 10, 2014}}

File:7th Avenue and 1st Street Park Slope NY.jpgBy the early 1980s, however, even as the gentrification of the neighborhood was rapidly proceeding, crime was soaring, along with crime in the rest of New York City. The neighborhood was affected by daily armed muggings within the Prospect Park area especially at night primarily from the high crime neighboring area of UnderHill known as Prospect Heights.{{cite web|url=http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_4_brooklyn.html|title=How Brooklyn Got Its Groove Back|work=City Journal|date=Fall 2011|access-date=June 10, 2014|author=Hymowitz, Kay S.}} Gentrification accelerated during the 1980s and 1990s, as working-class families were displaced and discriminated due to classism regardless of race, many of those displaced being Italian, Irish and Hispanic. These gentrifiers were generally Manhtattanites attracted by the neighborhood's low cost of living and historic, turn-of-the-century housing stock. Following decades of socioeconomic precarity, the influx of the upper middle class has returned Park Slope to its Gilded Age milieu as one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Brooklyn—and the nation.{{cite web|url=http://www.courant.com/topic/nyc-slopestory0225,0,6444365.story|title=Park Slope returns to its roots|publisher=Courant.com|date=March 21, 2005|access-date=June 10, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090614072927/http://www.courant.com/topic/nyc-slopestory0225,0,6444365.story|archive-date=June 14, 2009}} Sociologist and urban theorist Sharon Zukin has written of the trend, "In Park Slope, the middle class found a sense of history and a picturesque quality that fit their sense of themselves."{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/nyregion/21gentrify.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|title=A Contrarian's Lament in a Blitz of Gentrification|date=February 21, 2010|work=The New York Times|last=Powell|first=Michael}} Since the mid-1990s, gentrification has increased: a 2001 report by the New York City Rent Guidelines Board found that from 1990 to 1999, rents in Park Slope increased by 3.5–4.4% per year, depending on what kind of building the apartment was in.[http://www.fordfound.org/publications/ff_report/view_ff_report_detail.cfm?report_index=394 Urban Gentry] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030418030215/http://www.fordfound.org/publications/ff_report/view_ff_report_detail.cfm?report_index=394 |date=April 18, 2003}}, Ford Foundation Report, Spring 2003

Park Slope contains a variety of zoning districts, including manufacturing, commercial, residential, and mixed-use. Much of the neighborhood is composed of rowhouses and six-to-eight-story apartment buildings, though Fourth, Fifth and Seventh Avenues contain residential structures with commercial space on the ground floors. The westernmost portion of Park Slope near the Gowanus Canal is a light industrial district. The section of Seventh Avenue south of Ninth Street is largely zoned for low-density commercial use.{{cite web|url=https://zola.planning.nyc.gov/|title=NYC's Zoning & Land Use Map|publisher=nyc.gov|access-date=November 17, 2018}}

File:Park Slope Armory cloudy jeh.JPG on 15th Street]]Much of Park Slope is located within the Park Slope Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.{{NRISref|version=2009a}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/nyregion/thecity/16lesb.html?pagewanted=all|title=Replanting the Rainbow Flag|author=Megan Cossey|date=January 16, 2005|work=The New York Times}} The historic district was also designated by the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1973;{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1973|ps=.|p=1}} the city-designated district was extended to the south in 2012{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2012|ps=.|p=1}} and to the north in 2016.{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2016|ps=.|p=1}} Containing 2,575 buildings stretching over part or all of around 40 city blocks, the historic district is New York's largest landmark neighborhood.

Several other structures in Park Slope are both NRHP and city landmarks:

• 14th Regiment Armory, an armory built in 1891–95 and designed in the Late Victorian style{{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1965.pdf|title=14th Regiment Armory|date=April 14, 1998|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|access-date=March 22, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/94000367.pdf|title=Historic Structures Report: Eighth Avenue (14th Regiment) Armory|date=March 18, 1994|publisher=National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service|access-date=March 22, 2020}}
• Litchfield Villa, an Italianate mansion built in 1854–1857 on a large private estate now located in Prospect Park{{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0153.pdf|title=Edwin Clarke and Grace Hill Litchfield House|date=March 15, 1966|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|access-date=March 22, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/77000946.pdf|title=Historic Structures Report: Litchfield Villa|date=September 14, 1977|publisher=National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service|access-date=March 22, 2020}}
• Public Bath No. 7, a bathhouse built between 1906 and 1910 in the style of a Renaissance palazzo{{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1287.pdf|title=Public Bath No. 7|date=September 11, 1984|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|access-date=March 22, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002275.pdf|title=Historic Structures Report: Public Bath No. 7|date=September 12, 1985|publisher=National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service|access-date=March 22, 2020}}
• Public School 39, built in 1876–1877 in the Italianate and Second Empire styles{{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0952.pdf|title=Public School 39|date=March 18, 1977|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|access-date=March 22, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002646.pdf|title=Historic Structures Report: Public School 39|date=April 17, 1980|publisher=National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service|access-date=March 22, 2020}}
• William B. Cronyn House, built in 1856 in the Second Empire style{{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0997.pdf|title=William B. Cronyn House|date=July 11, 1978|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|access-date=March 22, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82005030.pdf|title=Historic Structures Report: William B. Cronyn House|date=June 3, 1982|publisher=National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service|access-date=March 22, 2020}}

Additionally, the Brooklyn Public Library's Park Slope branch, a Carnegie library built in 1905–06, is a city landmark.{{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1994.pdf|title=Brooklyn Public Library, Park Slope Branch|date=October 13, 1998|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|access-date=February 2, 2020}} The Fourth Avenue station{{cite web|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/05000673.pdf|title=Historic Structures Report: 4th Avenue Station (IND)|date=July 27, 2005|publisher=National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service|access-date=February 2, 2020}} and 15th Street–Prospect Park station are NRHP landmarks that are part of the New York City Subway System Multiple Property Submission (MPS).{{cite web|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/05000748.pdf|title=Historic Structures Report: 15th Street—Prospect Park Subway Station (IND)|date=July 27, 2005|publisher=National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service|access-date=February 2, 2020}} The Old Stone House, a 1930 reconstruction of the Vechte-Cortelyou House destroyed in 1897, is another NRHP listing and is located on Third Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues.{{cite web|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/12000797.pdf|title=Historic Structures Report: Old Stone House of Brooklyn|date=September 19, 2012|publisher=National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service|access-date=February 2, 2020}}

The Grand Prospect Hall, an NRHP-listed banquet hall on Prospect Avenue, was built in 1892 and was demolished in 2022.{{cite web|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/99000460.pdf|title=Historic Structures Report: Prospect Hall|date=April 15, 1999|publisher=National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service|access-date=February 2, 2020}}Yakas, Ben. [https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/grand-prospect-hall-facade-demolished "Preservation hopes fade as Grand Prospect Hall facade is demolished"], Gothamist, March 3, 2022. Accessed August 6, 2023. "After months in stasis, the facade of beloved Park Slope institution Grand Prospect Hall was finally demolished this week, marking the likely end of the quest to preserve the historic venue."

Based on data from the 2020 United States Census, the population of the Park Slope–Gowanus neighborhood tabulation area (NTA) was 74,731 a change of 7082 (10.46%) from the 67,649 counted in 2010. Covering an area of {{convert|961.17|acres}}, the neighborhood had a population density of {{convert|70.4|PD/acre|PD/sqmi PD/sqkm}}.[http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p5_nta.pdf Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610175331/http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p5_nta.pdf |date=June 10, 2016 }}, Population Division - New York City Department of City Planning, February 2012. Accessed June 16, 2016.

The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 66.9% (49,995) White, 4.5% (3363) African American, 7.6% (5679) Asian, 5.2% (3886) from other races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 15.8% (11,807) of the population.[https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dfta/downloads/pdf/reports/Demographics_by_NTA.pdf Demographics by Neighborhood Tabulation Area (NTA) - November 2020]

The entirety of Community Board 6, which covers areas around Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, had 109,351 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 81.4 years.{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/data/2018chp-bk6.pdf|title=Park Slope and Carroll Gardens (Including Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Columbia St, Gowanus, Park Slope and Red Hook)|date=2018|website=nyc.gov|publisher=NYC Health|access-date=March 2, 2019}}{{Rp|2, 20}} This is slightly higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/tcny/community-health-assessment-plan.pdf|title=2016-2018 Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan: Take Care New York 2020|date=2016|website=nyc.gov|publisher=New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene|access-date=September 8, 2017}}{{Rp|53 (PDF p. 84)}}{{cite web|title=New Yorkers are living longer, happier and healthier lives|website=New York Post|date=June 4, 2017|url=https://nypost.com/2017/06/04/new-yorkers-are-living-longer-happier-and-healthier-lives/|access-date=March 1, 2019}} Most inhabitants are middle-aged adults and youth: 18% are between the ages of 0 and 17, 46% between 25 and 44, and 20% between 45 and 64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 5% and 10% respectively.{{Rp|2}}

As of 2016, the median household income in Community District 6 was $134,804.{{cite web|url=https://censusreporter.org/profiles/79500US3604005-nyc-brooklyn-community-district-6-park-slope-carroll-gardens-red-hook-puma-ny/|title=NYC-Brooklyn Community District 6--Park Slope, Carroll Gardens & Red Hook PUMA, NY|work=Census Reporter |access-date=July 17, 2018}} In 2018, an estimated 10% of Park Slope and Carroll Gardens residents lived in poverty, compared to 21% in all of Brooklyn and 20% in all of New York City. Less than one in fifteen residents (6%) were unemployed, compared to 9% in the rest of both Brooklyn and New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 37% in Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, lower than the citywide and boroughwide rates of 52% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, {{as of|2018|lc=y}}, Park Slope and Carroll Gardens are considered to be high income and not gentrifying.{{Rp|7}}

As of the 2020 census data from New York City Department of City Planning, there were between 30,000 and 50,000 White residents and 5,000 to 12,000 Hispanic residents, meanwhile the Black and Asian residents were each less than 6000 residents.{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/planning-level/nyc-population/census2020/dcp_2020-census-briefing-booklet-1.pdf|title=Key Population & Housing Characteristics; 2020 Census Results for New York City|publisher=New York City Department of City Planning|date=August 2021|access-date=November 7, 2021|pages=21, 25, 29, 33}}{{cite web | title=Map: Race and ethnicity across the US | website=CNN | date=August 14, 2021 | url=https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/us/census-race-ethnicity-map/ | access-date=November 7, 2021}}

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Park Slope is patrolled by the 78th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 65 6th Avenue.{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/78th-precinct.page|title=NYPD – 78th Precinct|website=www.nyc.gov|publisher=New York City Police Department|access-date=October 3, 2016}} The 78th Precinct ranked 41st safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dnainfo.com/crime-safety-report/brooklyn/park-slope/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925050121/http://www.dnainfo.com/crime-safety-report/brooklyn/park-slope|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 25, 2011|title=Park Slope and Gowanus – DNAinfo.com Crime and Safety Report|website=www.dnainfo.com|access-date=October 6, 2016}} {{As of|2018}}, with a non-fatal assault rate of 30 per 100,000 people, Park Slope and Carroll Gardens' rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 294 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole.{{Rp|8}}

The 78th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 77.3% between 1990 and 2023. The precinct reported 2 murders, 10 rapes, 124 robberies, 178 felony assaults, 181 burglaries, 553 grand larcenies, and 128 grand larcenies auto in 2019.{{cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-078pct.pdf|title=78th Precinct CompStat Report|website=www.nyc.gov|publisher=New York City Police Department|access-date=May 25, 2020}}

The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) operates three fire stations in Park Slope:{{Cite FDNY locations}}

• Engine Company 220/Ladder Company 122 – 530 11th Street{{cite web|website=FDNYtrucks.com|title=Engine Company 220/Ladder Company 122|url=http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/brooklyn/e220.htm|access-date=March 2, 2019}}
• Engine Company 239 – 395 4th Avenue{{cite web|website=FDNYtrucks.com|title=Engine Company 239|url=http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/brooklyn/e239.htm|access-date=March 2, 2019}}
• Squad 1/Technical Response Vehicle – 788 Union Street

{{As of|2018}}, preterm births and births to teenage mothers are less common in Park Slope and Carroll Gardens than in other places citywide. In Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, there were 27 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 7.9 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).{{Rp|11}} Park Slope and Carroll Gardens has a relatively high population of residents who are uninsured, or who receive healthcare through Medicaid.[http://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/medicaid/redesign/dsrip/pps_applications/docs/maimonides_medical_center/3.8_maimonides_cna.pdf New York City Health Provider Partnership Brooklyn Community Needs Assessment: Final Report] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723064434/https://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/medicaid/redesign/dsrip/pps_applications/docs/maimonides_medical_center/3.8_maimonides_cna.pdf |date=July 23, 2018}}, New York Academy of Medicine (October 3, 2014). In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 22%, which is higher than the citywide rate of 12%.{{Rp|14}}

The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Park Slope and Carroll Gardens is {{convert|0.0089|mg/m3|oz/ft3}}, higher than the citywide and boroughwide averages.{{Rp|9}} Fifteen percent of Park Slope and Carroll Gardens residents are smokers, which is slightly higher than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.{{Rp|13}} In Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, 15% of residents are obese, 6% are diabetic, and 22% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively.{{Rp|16}} In addition, 9% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.{{Rp|12}}

Ninety-four percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is higher than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 88% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", greater than the city's average of 78%.{{Rp|13}} For every supermarket in Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, there are 12 bodegas.{{Rp|10}}

New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital is located in Park Slope.

Park Slope is covered by two ZIP Codes: 11217 north of Union Street and 11215 south of Union Street.{{cite web|title=Park Slope, New York City-Brooklyn, New York Zip Code Boundary Map (NY)|website=United States Zip Code Boundary Map (USA)|url=https://www.zipmap.net/New_York/Kings_County/Z_Park_Slope.htm|access-date=March 27, 2019}} The United States Post Office operates three locations nearby:

• Prospect Park West Station – 225 Prospect Park West{{cite web|title=Location Details: Prospect Park West|website=USPS.com|url=https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorDetailsAction!input.action?locationTypeQ=po&address=11221&radius=20&locationType=po&locationID=1433849&locationName=PROSPECT+PARK+WEST&address2=&address1=225+PROSPECT+PARK+W+STE+A|access-date=March 5, 2019}}
• Park Slope Station – 198 7th Avenue{{cite web|title=Location Details: Park Slope|website=USPS.com|url=https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorDetailsAction!input.action?locationTypeQ=po&address=11221&radius=20&locationType=po&locationID=1433843&locationName=PARK+SLOPE&address2=&address1=198+7TH+AVE+STE+A|access-date=March 5, 2019}}
• Van Brunt Station – 279 9th Street{{cite web|title=Location Details: Van Brunt|website=USPS.com|url=https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorDetailsAction!input.action?locationTypeQ=po&address=11221&radius=20&locationType=po&locationID=1385701&locationName=VAN+BRUNT&address2=&address1=275+9TH+ST|access-date=March 5, 2019}}

Park Slope is considered one of New York City's most desirable neighborhoods. In 2010, it was ranked number 1 in New York by New York Magazine, citing its quality public schools, dining, nightlife, shopping, access to public transit, green space, safety, and creative capital, among other aspects.{{cite magazine|author=Nate Silver|date=April 11, 2010|title=The Most Livable Neighborhoods in New York|url=http://nymag.com/realestate/neighborhoods/2010/65374/|magazine=New York|access-date=August 22, 2010}} It was named one of the "Greatest Neighborhoods in America" by the American Planning Association in 2007, "for its architectural and historical features and its diverse mix of residents and businesses, all of which are supported and preserved by its active and involved citizenry."{{cite web|url=http://www.planning.org/greatplaces/neighborhoods/2007/parkslope.htm|title=Park Slope Brooklyn, New York|year=2007|publisher=American Planning Association|access-date=August 22, 2010}} In December 2006, Natural Home magazine named Park Slope one of America's ten best neighborhoods based on criteria including parks, green spaces and neighborhood gathering spaces; farmers' markets and community gardens; public transportation and locally owned businesses; and environmental and social policy.[http://www.naturalhomeandgarden.com/good-to-know/2007-01-01/ "America's Best Eco-Neighborhoods"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070602091745/http://www.naturalhomeandgarden.com/good-to-know/2007-01-01/ |date=June 2, 2007 }}, Natural Home, December 6, 2006

• The Park Slope Food Coop, one of the oldest and largest active food co-ops in the United States,Bellafante, Ginia. [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/nyregion/unionize-park-slope-food-coop.html "They Tried to Unionize the Park Slope Food Coop. Guess What Happened. Progressives and organized labor should get along famously. So why is there a disconnect on today's left?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200320201944/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/nyregion/unionize-park-slope-food-coop.html |date=March 20, 2020 }}, The New York Times, September 20, 2019. Accessed March 20, 2020. "The produce aisle at the Park Slope Food Coop, one of the oldest and largest co-ops in the country." is located on Union Street and has approximately 17,000 members from Park Slope and other neighborhoods. Only members may shop there, and membership requires a work commitment of 2{{fraction|3|4}} hours every six weeks.{{cite web|url=http://www.foodcoop.com/go.php?id=37|title=Community Ties|publisher=foodcoop.com|access-date=September 12, 2015|archive-date=September 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905124022/http://www.foodcoop.com/go.php?id=37|url-status=dead}}
• The Park Slope Volunteer Ambulance Corps provides free emergency medical services to community members.{{cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2010/02/23/changes-for-volunteer-ambulance-corps/|title=Changes for volunteer ambulance corps|website=New York Post|date=February 23, 2010|access-date=September 12, 2015}}
• The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, part of the Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music, is a community music school, offering music classes, ensembles and choral opportunities, and individual instrumental and vocal lessons to students from 18 months old to adults. It was founded in 1897.
• Community Help in Park Slope, Inc. (CHiPS) is a soup kitchen that serves 600 men and women daily.{{Cite web |title=Home - CHiPS |url=https://chipsonline.org/ |access-date=2025-05-04 |language=en-US}} Its Frances Residency Program provides shelter and support for young homeless mothers and their infants and toddlers; it was founded in 1971.{{Cite web |date=2024-06-12 |title=Frances Residence - CHiPS |url=https://chipsonline.org/frances-residence-2/ |access-date=2025-05-04 |language=en-US}}

One of the areas with a significant gay population in NYC, Park Slope hosts the famous Lesbian Herstory Archives that contain the world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians.[https://lesbianherstoryarchives.org/ https://lesbianherstoryarchives.org] Notable LGBT nightlife spaces in Park Slope include the long-operating lesbian bar Ginger's and the queer bar and performance venue Good Judy.{{Cite web |last=Silver-Willner |first=Arielle |date=2022-03-15 |title=Inside Brooklyn's last lesbian bar |url=https://www.bkmag.com/2022/03/15/inside-brooklyns-last-lesbian-bar/ |access-date=2024-05-02 |website=Brooklyn Magazine}}{{Cite web |date=2021-06-08 |title=How One Brooklyn Bar Found Its Footing in the Middle of the Pandemic |url=https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/bars/a36567980/pandemic-gay-bar-good-judy-new-york/ |access-date=2024-05-02 |website=Esquire |language=en-US}} The neighborhood also hosts the annual Brooklyn Pride Parade and Festival.{{cite web |title=Brooklyn Pride |url=https://brooklynpride.org/ |access-date=27 November 2023}}

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Park Slope is home to a wide variety of religious institutions, or houses of worship, including many churches and synagogues; most are historic buildings, and date back many decades.{{cite book|last=Cook|first=Terri|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ja52CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT6|title=Sacred Havens of Brooklyn: Spiritual Places and Peaceful Grounds|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Incorporated|year=2013|isbn=978-1-62584-051-6|series=Landmarks}}

• All Nations Baptist Church (Baptist)
• All Saints' Church (Episcopal)
• Church of Gethsemane (Presbyterian)
• Grace United Methodist Church of Brooklyn (Methodist)
• Greenwood Baptist Church (Baptist)
• Kingsboro Temple of Seventh-day Adventists (Seventh-day Adventist)
• Holy Name of Jesus (Roman Catholic)
• Memorial Baptist Church (Baptist)
• Old First Reformed Church (Reformed)
• Park Slope United Methodist Church (Methodist)
• Resurrection Coptic Catholic Chapel (Coptic)
• St Augustine-St Francis Xavier (Roman Catholic){{Cite web |title=Saint Augustine - Saint Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church, Brooklyn, NY - Park Slope |url=https://sasfx.org/ |access-date=4 February 2025 |website=Saint Augustine - Saint Francis Xavier parish website}}
• St John's (Episcopal)
• St John–St Matthew–Emanuel (Lutheran [ELCA])
• St Mary's (Melkite Eastern Rite Catholic)
• St Saviour (Roman Catholic)
• St Thomas Aquinas (Roman Catholic)
• Trinity Grace Church (Non-Denominational)
• Emmanuel Pentecostal Church (Pentecostal)

There is a significant Jewish population in Park Slope, allowing for a number of synagogues along the religious spectrum. In addition to a number of synagogues, there is an eruv, sponsored by members of the various communities, that surrounds Park Slope.

Synagogues include:{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklynyid.com/chabad/shabbat/eruv.htm|title=BrooklynYid|publisher=brooklynyid.com|access-date=September 12, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060957/http://www.brooklynyid.com/chabad/shabbat/eruv.htm|archive-date=March 4, 2016}}

• Park Slope Jewish Center (Conservative),{{cite web|url=http://psjc.org/|title=Park Slope Jewish Center|website=psjc.org}} 14th Street and Eighth Avenue
• Congregation B'nai Jacob (Modern Orthodox),{{cite web|url=http://www.cbjparkslope.org/|title=Congregation B'nai Jacob - Online|website=Congregation B'nai Jacob}} 401 9th Street
• Congregation Beth Elohim (Reform),{{cite web|url=http://congregationbethelohim.org/|title=Congregation Beth Elohim|website=congregationbethelohim.org}} 274 Garfield Place; this is the largest Reform synagogue in Brooklyn, and also the longest-running congregation
• Congregation Kolot Chayeinu (unaffiliated, progressive),{{cite web|url=http://www.kolotchayeinu.org/|title=Welcome to Kolot Chayeinu - Voices of Our Lives - Kolot Chayeinu - Voices of Our Lives|website=www.kolotchayeinu.org}} 1012 Eighth Avenue

Park Slope and Carroll Gardens generally have a much higher ratio of college-educated residents than the rest of the city {{as of|2018|lc=y}}. The majority (74%) of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher, while 9% have less than a high school education and 17% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 40% of Brooklynites and 38% of city residents have a college education or higher.{{Rp|6}} The percentage of Park Slope and Carroll Gardens students excelling in reading and math has been increasing, with reading achievement rising from 41 percent in 2000 to 53 percent in 2011, and math achievement rising from 35 percent to 64 percent within the same time period.{{Cite web|url=http://furmancenter.org/files/sotc/BK_06_11.pdf|title=Park Slope/Carroll Gardens – BK 06|date=2011|publisher=Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy|access-date=October 5, 2016}}

Park Slope and Carroll Gardens's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is lower than the rest of New York City. In Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, 11% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, compared to the citywide average of 20% of students.{{Rp|6}}{{Rp|24 (PDF p. 55)}} Additionally, 77% of high school students in Park Slope and Carroll Gardens graduate on time, higher than the citywide average of 75% of students.{{Rp|6}}

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Public schools are operated by the New York City Department of Education. Park Slope is in two different community school districts – district 13 to the north and district 15 to the south. Students are zoned to their nearest elementary school. Both district 13 and district 15 place students in middle school based on the student's ranking of acceptable middle schools; the district 13 portion of Park Slope receives district 15 (not district 13) middle school choice, consistent with the rest of the neighborhood. The former John Jay High School is now the John Jay Educational Campus, housing three high schools and one combination middle/high school.

• PS 10, Magnet School of Math, Science, and Design Technology (grades K–5, dist. 15){{cite web|title=Magnet School of Math, Science and Design Technology|website=New York City Department of Education|url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K010|access-date=March 25, 2020|archive-date=March 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325191154/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K010|url-status=dead}}
• PS 39, Henry Bristow School (grades PK–5, dist. 15){{cite web|title=P.S. 039 Henry Bristow|website=New York City Department of Education|url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K039|access-date=March 25, 2020|archive-date=March 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325191154/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K039|url-status=dead}}
• PS 107, John W. Kimball Learning Center (grades K–5, dist. 15){{cite web|title=P.S. 107 John W. Kimball|website=New York City Department of Education|url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K107|access-date=March 25, 2020|archive-date=March 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325191156/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K107|url-status=dead}}
• PS 118, the Maurice Sendak Community School (grades PK–5, dist. 15){{cite web|title=The Maurice Sendak Community School|website=New York City Department of Education|url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K118|access-date=March 25, 2020|archive-date=March 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325191159/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K118|url-status=dead}}
• PS 124, Silas B. Dutcher Elementary School (grades PK–5, dist. 15){{cite web|title=P.S. 124 Silas B. Dutcher|website=New York City Department of Education|url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K124|access-date=March 25, 2020|archive-date=March 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325191156/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K124|url-status=dead}}
• PS 133, William A. Butler School (grades PK–5, dist. 13, with admissions open to both dist. 13 and 15){{cite web|title=P.S. 133 William A. Butler|website=New York City Department of Education|url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K133|access-date=March 25, 2020|archive-date=March 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325191202/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K133|url-status=dead}}
• PS/MS 282, Park Slope School (grades PK–8, dist. 13){{cite web|title=P.S. 282 Park Slope|website=New York City Department of Education|url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K282|access-date=March 25, 2020|archive-date=March 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325191150/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K282|url-status=dead}}
• PS 321, the William Penn School (grades K–5, dist. 15){{cite web|title=P.S. 321 William Penn|website=New York City Department of Education|url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K321|access-date=March 25, 2020|archive-date=March 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325191157/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K321|url-status=dead}}
• MS 51, William Alexander Middle School (grades 6–8, dist. 15){{cite web|title=M.S. 51 William Alexander|website=New York City Department of Education|url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K051|access-date=March 25, 2020|archive-date=March 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325191149/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K051|url-status=dead}}
• JHS 88 Peter Rouget (grades 6–8, dist. 15){{cite web|title=J.H.S. 088 Peter Rouget|website=New York City Department of Education|url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K088|access-date=March 25, 2020|archive-date=March 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325191200/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K088|url-status=dead}}
• MS 266, Park Place School (grades 6–8, dist. 13){{cite web|title=M.S. K266 - Park Place Community Middle School|website=New York City Department of Education|url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K266|access-date=March 25, 2020|archive-date=March 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325191152/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K266|url-status=dead}}
• John Jay Educational Campus (formerly John Jay HS, dist. 15). The building houses four schools:
• Park Slope Collegiate (grades 6–12){{cite web|title=Park Slope Collegiate|website=New York City Department of Education|url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K464|access-date=March 25, 2020|archive-date=January 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127050828/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K464|url-status=dead}}
• Millennium Brooklyn High School (grades 9–12){{cite web|title=Millennium Brooklyn HS|website=New York City Department of Education|url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K684|access-date=March 25, 2020|archive-date=March 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325191153/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K684|url-status=dead}}
• Cyberarts Studio Academy (grades 9–12){{cite web|title=Cyberarts Studio Academy|website=New York City Department of Education|url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K463|access-date=March 25, 2020|archive-date=March 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325191153/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K463|url-status=dead}}
• Secondary School for Law (grades 9–12){{cite web|title=John Jay School for Law|website=New York City Department of Education|url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K462|access-date=March 25, 2020|archive-date=March 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325191151/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/K462|url-status=dead}}

• Beth Elohim Day School (preK–K) on Eighth Avenue and Garfield Place.
• Berkeley Carroll School (preK–12) on Lincoln Place, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues; Carroll Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues; and President Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.
• Brooklyn Free School (ages 5–15) on Sixteenth Street, between Fourth and Fifth Avenues. See democratic education.
• Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School (9–12) 500 19th St.
• Chai Tots Preschool Corner of Prospect Park West and 3rd St.
• Montessori School of New York (ages 2–13) on Eighth Avenue between Carroll and President Streets. See Montessori.
• Old First Nursery School (pre-K) the oldest cooperative nursery school in New York City located on Carroll Street at Seventh Avenue. The school has rented space from Old First for over forty years but is independent and not religiously affiliated with the church.
• Poly Prep's Lower School (part of Poly Prep Country Day School) (PreK–4) on Prospect Park West between First and Second Streets.
• St. Francis Xavier (Catholic School) (K–8). 763 President St. between 6th & 7th Avenue.
• St. Saviour Elementary School (Catholic School) (preK–8) 8th Ave between 7th and 8th Street
• St. Saviour High School (all-girls Catholic School) (9–12) 6th Street between 8th Avenue and Prospect Park West
• St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Academy 241 Prospect Park West (preK (age 3–8)

The Brooklyn Public Library's Park Slope branch is located at 431 Sixth Avenue. Built in 1906, it was a Carnegie library branch, and was named the "Prospect branch" before 1975.{{cite web|title=Park Slope Library|website=Brooklyn Public Library|date=August 22, 2011|url=https://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/park-slope|access-date=February 21, 2019}} The Brooklyn Central Library is located across Grand Army Plaza from the northeast corner of Park Slope.{{cite web|title=Central Library|website=Brooklyn Public Library|date=January 29, 2016|url=https://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/central|access-date=February 21, 2019}}

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The neighborhood is well-served by the New York City Subway. The IND Culver Line ({{NYCS trains|Culver IND north}}) runs along Ninth Street, a main shopping street, stopping at Fourth Avenue, Seventh Avenue and 15th Street – Prospect Park/Prospect Park West. The IRT Eastern Parkway Line ({{NYCS trains|Eastern west}}) runs under Flatbush Avenue with an express stop at Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center, and local stops (served by the {{NYCS trains|Eastern west local}}) at Bergen Street and Grand Army Plaza. The BMT Fourth Avenue Line's local trains ({{NYCS trains|Fourth local}}) serve Prospect Avenue, Ninth Street, and Union Street stations, with the {{NYCS trains|Fourth}} all serving Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center, an express station. The BMT Brighton Line ({{NYCS trains|Brighton}}) also passes through the neighborhood under Flatbush Avenue making stops at Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center and Seventh Avenue. All three stations at Atlantic Avenue are connected to each other.{{NYCS const|map}}

Additionally, several MTA New York City Transit bus routes serve the area, including the B61, B63, B67, and B69.{{Cite NYC bus map|B}}

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Actors

• Jon Abrahams (born 1977)Lee, Linda. [https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/27/style/a-night-out-at-the-paramount-hotel-the-pajama-game.html "A Night Out At The: Paramount Hotel; The Pajama Game"], The New York Times, May 27, 2001. Accessed March 26, 2025. "A product of St. Ann's School in Brooklyn, Mr. Abrahams, 23, had invited a batch of friends from high school to join him. He lives in North Park Slope, exactly 41 minutes from here, he said."
• Paul Bettany (born 1971), actor{{Cite web|url=https://observer.com/2017/11/jennifer-connelly-paul-bettany-brooklyn-townhouse-park-slope-for-sale/|title=Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany Owned This Gorgeous Brooklyn Mansion|website=The New York Observer|date=November 6, 2017}}
• Steve Buscemi (born 1957)Tucker, Reed. [https://nypost.com/2010/01/24/all-about-steve-buscemi/ "All about Steve Buscemi"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920083302/http://nypost.com/2010/01/24/all-about-steve-buscemi/ |date=September 20, 2016}}, New York Post, January 24, 2010. Accessed August 15, 2016. "As anyone who's seen Steve Buscemi casually riding the F train knows, this guy's one of us. He was born in this city, has fought fires in this city and, despite his success, has resisted the urge go all Hollywood on us. He still lives in a brownstone off Seventh Avenue in Park Slope and says he never wanted to relocate to LA."
• Jennifer Connelly (born 1970), actress
• David Cross (born 1964){{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
• Kathryn Erbe (born 1966)Mompanek, Christopher. [https://nypost.com/2012/12/13/cobble-thrill/ "Cobble thrill"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120131303/https://nypost.com/2012/12/13/cobble-thrill/ |date=January 20, 2018}}, New York Post, December 13, 2012. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Previously, she lived in a Park Slope townhouse with her ex-husband, actor/director Terry Kinney. She'd wanted to stay in the neighborhood, but 'finding a three-bedroom that was affordable, relatively speaking, in that neighborhood was very difficult,' she says."
• Laurence Fishburne (born 1961)Pincus-Roth, Zachary. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/theater/27pinc.html?_r=0 "Next on His Docket: A Supreme Challenge"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191017052208/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/theater/27pinc.html?_r=0 |date=October 17, 2019}}, The New York Times, April 27, 2008. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Mr. Fishburne had little experience with segregation. Though he was born in Augusta, Ga., in 1961, at about 4 he moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn, a melting-pot neighborhood where he played with children from many backgrounds."
• Maggie Gyllenhaal (born 1977), actressMurphy, Tim. [http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2008/05/maggie_gyllenhaal_on_brownston.html "Maggie Gyllenhaal on Brownstone Living"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826034358/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2008/05/maggie_gyllenhaal_on_brownston.html |date=August 26, 2016}}, New York (magazine), May 9, 2008. Accessed August 15, 2016. "So, when we got to chat with the evening's host, Maggie Gyllenhaal, who recently bought a brownstone in Park Slope, we wanted to talk shelter with her."
• John Hodgman (born 1971), author, actor, and humoristBergin, Brigid. [http://www.wnyc.org/story/park-slopes-john-hodgman-wont-party-de-blasios-while-theyre-gone/ "John Hodgman to de Blasios: You'll Miss Us in Park Slope"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921173255/http://www.wnyc.org/story/park-slopes-john-hodgman-wont-party-de-blasios-while-theyre-gone/ |date=September 21, 2016}}, WNYC, December 11, 2013. Accessed August 15, 2016. "To find out what's behind this mysterious magnetism, specifically in Park Slope, WNYC spoke to another well-known resident, the writer, comedian and, by his own description, minor television star John Hodgman."
• Robin Johnson (born 1964), actress[http://www.robinjohnson.net/original_index.html Home Page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104151815/http://www.robinjohnson.net/original_index.html |date=November 4, 2016}}, RobinJohnson.net. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Robin Johnson was born May 29, 1964, and grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn."
• Chris Kentis, film director and screenwriter
• Terry Kinney (born 1954), actor and theatre director, who is a founding member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company
• Laura Lau (born 1963), writer, director and producer, known as the writer of the films Open Water (2005) and Silent HouseWadler, Joyce. [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/garden/12mesh.html "After Open Water, Lots of Open Spaces"], The New York Times, July 12, 2007. Accessed March 26, 2025. "Lightening Up Laura Lau and her husband, Chris Kentis, bought a 19th-century brownstone in Park Slope was in excellent condition but had a dark interior with narrow stairs and hallways."
• Athan Maroulis (born 1964), actor, vocalist and record producer{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
• Kelly McGillis (born 1957), actressGoldman, Lowell. [http://articles.philly.com/1989-05-04/entertainment/26110817_1_kelly-mcgillis-attorney-movie "Challenges Welcome For Kelly Mcgillis"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821001036/http://articles.philly.com/1989-05-04/entertainment/26110817_1_kelly-mcgillis-attorney-movie |date=August 21, 2016}}, The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 4, 1989. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Kelly McGillis has just finished a workout in the gym on the ground floor of her four-story Victorian brownstone in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn."
• Wentworth Miller (born 1972), actor, model, screenwriter and producerPaumgarten, Nick. [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/11/10/the-race-card "The Race Card"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160714122549/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/11/10/the-race-card |date=July 14, 2016}}, The New Yorker, November 10, 2003. Accessed August 15, 2016. "'To be perfectly clear, passing'—that is, trying to pass oneself off as white, as Silk does—'is something that has never crossed my mind,' Miller, who was brought up in Park Slope, said last week, over breakfast."
• Sarah Paulson (born 1974), actressSchulman, Michael. [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/fashion/sarah-paulson-opens-up-about-dating-older-women-holland-taylor.html "Sarah Paulson Opens Up About Acting, Marcia Clark and Dating Older Women"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821202257/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/fashion/sarah-paulson-opens-up-about-dating-older-women-holland-taylor.html?_r=0 |date=August 21, 2020}}, The New York Times, March 2, 2016. Accessed August 16, 2016. "By the time Ms. Paulson was in seventh grade, the family had moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn, and she had discovered the stage at the private school Berkeley Carroll."
• Colin Quinn (born 1959), stand-up comedian, actor and writer, best known for his work on Saturday Night LiveCatton, Pia. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/colin-quinn-take-your-melting-pot-please-1436994757 "Colin Quinn: Take Your Melting Pot, PleaseThe comedian's new show is a snappy, 75-minute monologue about race and ethnicity in NYC"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703142829/https://www.wsj.com/articles/colin-quinn-take-your-melting-pot-please-1436994757 |date=July 3, 2017}}, The Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2015. Accessed August 15, 2016. "As an Irish kid in Brooklyn's Park Slope during the 1970s, he said, he ran around in a 'polyglot' neighborhood, where each block had a different character shaped by blacks, Puerto Ricans and Italians."
• Keri Russell (born 1976), actress and dancer{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
• Peter Sarsgaard (born 1971), actorItzkoff, Dave. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/theater/08itzk.html "Together Off Broadway and Elsewhere"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423213936/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/theater/08itzk.html |date=April 23, 2009}}, The New York Times, February 4, 2009. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Over lunch at a trattoria near their Park Slope home, Ms. Gyllenhaal and Mr. Sarsgaard come across like a shinier version of That Brooklyn Couple who gave up the hubbub of Manhattan to raise their child in a quieter, tree-lined borough."
• Streeter Seidell (born 1982), comedian, writer, actor, and TV hostMiller, Rachel. [http://www.bkmag.com/2016/06/03/brooklyns-50-funniest-people-streeter-seidell/ "Brooklyn's 50 Funniest People: Streeter Seidell"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213185543/http://www.bkmag.com/2016/06/03/brooklyns-50-funniest-people-streeter-seidell/ |date=February 13, 2019}}, Brooklyn Magazine, June 3, 2016. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Seidell was born in Connecticut, and yes, there is a picture of baby Seidell on the beach wearing a pink polo with a popped collar posted on his Instagram. Now he lives in Park Slope, and yes, there is also a picture of Seidell and his wife with their brand new, beautiful baby boy."
• Michael Showalter (born 1970), comedian, actor, producer, writer and director{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
• Patrick Stewart (born 1940), actor whose career has included roles on stage, television and filmChristian, Scott. [https://www.gq.com/story/patrick-stewart-brooklyn-video-the-quadruple-take "Patrick Stewart Moves To Brooklyn, Becomes Coolest Guy Ever"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920201252/http://www.gq.com/story/patrick-stewart-brooklyn-video-the-quadruple-take |date=September 20, 2016}}, GQ, August 28, 2013. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Further proof that Brooklyn really is the coolest city in the U.S., Dr. Charles Xavier himself, Sir Patrick Stewart, recently moved the Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope and has quickly become one of the best things to watch on the Internet."
• Julia Stiles (born 1981), actress{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
• John Turturro (born 1957), actor, writer and filmmakerKoblin, John. [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/arts/television/in-the-night-of-john-turturro-picks-up-where-james-gandolfini-left-off.html "In The Night Of, John Turturro Picks Up Where James Gandolfini Left Off"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191017052208/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/arts/television/in-the-night-of-john-turturro-picks-up-where-james-gandolfini-left-off.html |date=October 17, 2019}}, The New York Times, July 1, 2016. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Over a recent lunch at Bar Pitti in the West Village, Mr. Turturro's trademark Queens accent was on display as he chatted breezily with the wait staff and took a reporter through the menu item by item, translating from Italian. Dressed in a fitted gray T-shirt, he had taken the subway there from his home in Park Slope."
• John Ventimiglia (born 1963), actor best known for his role as Artie Bucco in the HBO television series, The SopranosMartinez, Erika. [https://nypost.com/2006/05/02/arties-goose-is-coked-sopranos-chef-in-drug-dwi-bust-2/ "'Artie's' Goose is 'Coked' – Sopranos Chef in Drug & DWI Bust"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920085049/http://nypost.com/2006/05/02/arties-goose-is-coked-sopranos-chef-in-drug-dwi-bust-2/ |date=September 20, 2016}}, New York Post, May 2, 2006. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Sources said Ventimiglia later maintained he had a couple of glasses of wine at a Long Island City art gallery opening. The actor claimed he had found a parking spot near his Park Slope apartment and had turned off his lights as he tried to pull in."

;Athletes

• Race Imboden (born 1993), Olympic fencerCoffey, Wayne. [https://www.nydailynews.com/2012/07/26/race-imboden-other-new-yorkers-dominate-us-olympic-fencing-team/ "Race Imboden, other New Yorkers dominate U.S. Olympic fencing team"], New York Daily News, January 10, 2019. Accessed March 26, 2025. "Nineteen-year-old Race Imboden of Park Slope is the highest-ranked man on the U.S. Olympic fencing team No. 5 in the world in foil."
• Adam Ottavino (born 1985), Major League Baseball player{{cite web |last1=Saunders |first1=Patrick |title=Adam Ottavino in a New York state of mind as he returned to the city, and family roots, that shaped him. |date=May 6, 2018 |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/06/adam-ottavino-new-york-state-of-mind/ |publisher=Denver Post |access-date=January 26, 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Ramirez |first1=Jeanie |title=Brooklyn to the Bronx: Yankees Pitcher Adam Ottavino's Journey |url=https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2019/09/16/brooklyn-to-the-bronx--yankees-pitcher-adam-ottavino-s-journey |website=Spectrum News 1 NY |access-date=January 26, 2021}}
• Joe Pepitone (1940–2023), MLB first baseman and outfielder who played for the New York YankeesKrell, David. [https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/joe-pepitone/ Joe Pepitone], Society for American Baseball Research. Accessed March 13, 2023. "Decades before gentrification began in the 1990s, the Pepitones lived in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood."

;Musicians

• Foxy Brown (born 1978), rapper, model and actressKarni, Annie. [https://nypost.com/2011/07/17/im-just-inga-the-real-diva-is-foxy-brown/ "I'm just Inga – the real diva is Foxy Brown"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323231315/https://nypost.com/2011/07/17/im-just-inga-the-real-diva-is-foxy-brown/ |date=March 23, 2018}}, New York Post, July 17, 2011. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Brown was raised by her mother, a teacher, in Park Slope."
• Jim Black (born 1967), jazz drummerMilkowski, Bill. [http://jazztimes.com/articles/62595-before-after-with-drummer-jim-black "Before & After with Drummer Jim Black; Between Motian and J Mood"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910104458/http://jazztimes.com/articles/62595-before-after-with-drummer-jim-black |date=September 10, 2016}}, JazzTimes, November 23, 2012. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Currently a resident of Park Slope, Brooklyn, Black had just returned from a tour of Italy with guitarist Walter Beltrami's Postural Vertigo Quintet when we sat down for his first Before & After session in August."
• Vince Clarke (born 1960), musician and songwriterVelsey, Kim. [https://observer.com/2012/03/depeche-toi-80s-band-leader-buys-beautiful-j-crew-house/ "Dépêche-toi! '80s Band Leader Buys Beautiful J.Crew House"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806054140/https://observer.com/2012/03/depeche-toi-80s-band-leader-buys-beautiful-j-crew-house/ |date=August 6, 2020}}, New York Observer, March 29, 2012. Accessed April 18, 2020. "Depeche Mode founder Vince Clarke, a.k.a. Vincent Martin and his wife Tracy Hurley Martin will be enjoying a “new life” in Park Slope after purchasing the townhouse of J.Crew creative director Jenna Lyons, according to Fucked in Park Slope."
• Ravi Coltrane (born 1965), Jazz saxophonistChinen, Nate. [http://jazztimes.com/departments/at-home/ravi-coltrane/ "Ravi Coltrane"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126024634/https://jazztimes.com/archives/ravi-coltrane/ |date=November 26, 2022}}, JazzTimes, March 1, 2005. Accessed January 25, 2017. "'I'm sorry about the mess,' Ravi Coltrane says at the front door of his brownstone, on a picturesque residential street in Brooklyn's Park Slope."
• Jonathan Coulton (born 1970), singer-songwriterAmorim, Kevin. [http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/jonathan-coulton-singing-the-blues-over-glee-1.4572847 "Jonathan Coulton singing the blues over Glee"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202075343/http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/jonathan-coulton-singing-the-blues-over-glee-1.4572847 |date=February 2, 2017}}, Newsday, February 6, 2013. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Musician Jonathan Coulton at his home studio in Park Slope, Brooklyn."
• Simone Dinnerstein (born 1972), classical pianistRobbins, Liz. [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/nyregion/at-simone-dinnersteins-home-music-plays-upstairs-and-downstairs.html "Music Upstairs and Downstairs"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202052622/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/nyregion/at-simone-dinnersteins-home-music-plays-upstairs-and-downstairs.html |date=February 2, 2017}}, The New York Times, March 15, 2013. Accessed January 25, 2017. "The classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein, 40, has a hectic international performance schedule, but in Park Slope her husband, Jeremy Greensmith, 46, and their son, Adrian Greensmith, 11, keep her grounded. ... I'm very happy not to leave Park Slope. I grew up in Park Slope on First Street."
• Dave Douglas (born 1963), jazz trumpeter and composerPorter, Christopher. [http://jazztimes.com/departments/at-home/dave-douglas/ "Dave Douglas"]{{dead link|date=November 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}, JazzTimes, September 1, 2002. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Brooklyn's Park Slope region is as laid-back as its name, befitting the serene demeanor of one of its residents, trumpeter Dave Douglas.... Douglas has lived in Park Slope for 10 years, seeing it transform from an artists' community to one of the hottest real estate areas in New York City."
• Mark Feldman (born 1955), jazz violinist.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
• Michael Hearst (born 1972), composer, multi-instrumentalist, writer, producer and founding member of One Ring ZeroWise, Brian. [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/nyregion/thecity/20song.html "Jangled by a Jingle, He Writes His Own ..."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202052406/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/nyregion/thecity/20song.html |date=February 2, 2017}}, The New York Times, May 20, 2007. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Mr. Hearst produced the album in a tiny bedroom converted into a recording studio in his third-floor walk-up in Park Slope, where several Mister Softee trucks can be seen lumbering by his window on any given day."
• Angélique Kidjo (born 1960), singer-songwriterHendrickson, Tad. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303933104579306673847092370 "African Star Shines in Park SlopeAngelique Kidjo Recounts Career, Childhood and Exile in New Autobiography"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722060554/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303933104579306673847092370 |date=July 22, 2016}}, The Wall Street Journal, January 7, 2014. Accessed January 25, 2017. "'Exile is not fun, let's get that straight,' Ms. Kidjo recently said via phone from her longtime home in Park Slope."
• Scott Klopfenstein (born 1977), musician and a former member of the band Reel Big Fish.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
• Talib Kweli born 1975), hip hop recording artistConnor, Tracy. [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn-rapper-talib-kweli-knew-hip-hop-fence-join-occupy-wall-street-activists-article-1.960924 "Brooklyn rapper Talib Kweli knew it was hip to hop fence and join Occupy Wall Street activists"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202025041/http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn-rapper-talib-kweli-knew-hip-hop-fence-join-occupy-wall-street-activists-article-1.960924 |date=February 2, 2017}}, New York Daily News, October 10, 2011. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Kweli grew up in Park Slope until he was 11 and then Flatbush. He went to Brooklyn Technical High School before his parents, both college professors, sent him to boarding school in Connecticut.... Kweli, who lives in Park Slope, said he hopes he can use his fame to bring more attention to the protesters."
• John Linnell (born 1959), singer-songwriter of They Might Be GiantsKompanek, Christopher. [https://nypost.com/2011/07/21/giant-sized-pad/ "Giant-sized pad"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202064207/http://nypost.com/2011/07/21/giant-sized-pad/ |date=February 2, 2017}}, New York Post, July 21, 2011. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Linnell, 52, is half of veteran alt-pop duo They Might Be Giants. He's also a longtime Brooklyn resident. He and his family lived a neighborhood away in Park Slope for 10 years prior to buying the two-story, 1,500-square-foot house."
• Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (born 1975), songwriters / composers who wrote the song "Let It Go" for the movie FrozenKaufman, Joanne. [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/realestate/kristen-anderson-lopez-frozen-songwriter-at-home.html?_r=0 "Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Frozen Songwriter, at Home"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126024709/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/realestate/kristen-anderson-lopez-frozen-songwriter-at-home.html?_r=0 |date=November 26, 2022}}, The New York Times, November 4, 2016. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Before finding happiness in a century-old townhouse in Park Slope, the songwriter Kristen Anderson-Lopez had what her husband and frequent collaborator, Robert Lopez, described as a 'real estate porn' habit."
• Ingrid Michaelson (born 1979), singer and songwriter.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
• Arturo O'Farrill (born 1960), jazz musicianRobbins, Liz. [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/nyregion/arturo-ofarrill-dont-take-five.html "Arturo O’Farrill: (Don’t) Take Five"], The New York Times, September 12, 2014. Accessed March 26, 2025. "Mr. O’Farrill, 54, lives in Park Slope with his wife, Alison Deane, 62, a classical pianist."
• Pumpkinhead (1975–2015), rapper and hip hop artistAlbrecht, Leslie. [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150813/park-slope/fans-want-rename-park-slope-street-for-rapper-pumpkinhead "Fans Want to Rename Park Slope Street for Rapper Pumpkinhead"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202072056/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150813/park-slope/fans-want-rename-park-slope-street-for-rapper-pumpkinhead |date=February 2, 2017}}, DNAinfo.com, August 13, 2015. Accessed January 25, 2017. "People sometimes laughed when the rapper Pumpkinhead boasted about his Park Slope roots, but now he could get his old block named after him.... Friends and fans of Robert Diaz — the underground rapper known as Pumpkinhead who died suddenly in June at the age of 39 — hope to convince city officials to rename Degraw Street and Fifth Avenue in his honor."
• Geoff Rickly (born 1979, lead singer and songwriter of ThursdayShinefield, Mordechai. [http://www.villagevoice.com/music/interview-thursday-frontman-geoff-rickly-6649137 "Interview: Thursday Frontman Geoff Rickly"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203205726/http://www.villagevoice.com/music/interview-thursday-frontman-geoff-rickly-6649137 |date=February 3, 2017}}, The Village Voice, February 19, 2009. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Once very much from New Brunswick, Jersey—they've cited fellow locals Lifetime as an important influence—frontman Geoff Rickly now lives in Park Slope."
• Alex Skolnick (born 1968), guitarist, composer and podcaster; lead guitarist of the band Testament, founder of Alex Skolnick trio jazz and member of the band PAKTWilson, Michael. [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/nyregion/a-fancy-guitar-to-sell-but-hard-to-play-in-handcuffs.html "A Fancy Guitar to Sell, but Hard to Play in Handcuffs"], The New York Times, December 25, 2016. Accessed May 20, 2024. "Alex Skolnick, the guitarist for the thrash metal band Testament, with the prototype of his signature guitar from Heritage Guitars, which was once stolen from him, at his home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on Friday."
• Chris Speed (born 1967), saxophonist, clarinetist and composer.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}
• Smoosh, band.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}
• Scott Tixier (born 1986), jazz violinist and recording artistPunjabi, Rajul. [http://www.villagevoice.com/music/french-jazz-violinist-scott-tixier-on-his-sleep-no-more-debut-9073980 "French Jazz Violinist Scott Tixier on His 'Sleep No More' Debut"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170112120955/http://www.villagevoice.com/music/french-jazz-violinist-scott-tixier-on-his-sleep-no-more-debut-9073980 |date=January 12, 2017}}, The Village Voice, September 21, 2016. Accessed February 3, 2017. "Tixier composed ten of the twelve tracks in a swift whirlwind of inspiration, and even the cover image came together in a day, his wife and neighbors (designers and photographers) adorning his Park Slope apartment with lush fabrics and odd tchotchkes — improvisation at its best."
• Michael Weiss (born 1958), jazz pianist and composer{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}
• Dan Zanes (born 1961), member of the 1980s band The Del Fuegos{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}

;Artists

• Janine Antoni (born 1964), contemporary artist, who creates work in performance art, sculpture and photographyWalsh, Brienne. [http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/previews/crossing-brooklyn-showcases-artistic-demographic-diversity/ "'Crossing Brooklyn' Showcases Artistic, Demographic Diversity"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204004509/http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/previews/crossing-brooklyn-showcases-artistic-demographic-diversity/ |date=February 4, 2017}}, Art in America, October 3, 2014. Accessed February 3, 2017. "Yours truly (2nd correspondence), 2010–14, by Bahamian-born, Park Slope-based Janine Antoni, is a series of love letters written from the perspective of an artwork and slipped into visitors' belongings at the coat check-art that continues to speak to the viewer after the museum visit."
• Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), artist best known for his neo-expressionist paintingsBosworth, Patricia. [https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/08/09/reviews/980809.09boswort.html "Hyped to Death; The short life of Jean-Michel Basquiat, graffiti artist turned gallery commodity."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010605014454/http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/08/09/reviews/980809.09boswort.html |date=June 5, 2001}}, The New York Times, August 9, 1998. Accessed February 3, 2017. "Basquiat was born in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on Dec. 22, 1960."
• Alex Grey (born 1953), visionary artist, author, teacher and Vajrayana practitionerLeland, John. [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/03/garden/at-home-with-alex-and-allyson-grey-tuition-and-other-head-trips.html "At Home With: Alex And Allyson Grey; Tuition and Other Head Trips"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204011735/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/03/garden/at-home-with-alex-and-allyson-grey-tuition-and-other-head-trips.html |date=February 4, 2017}}, The New York Times, January 3, 2002. Accessed February 3, 2017. "For the last 17 years, they have painted in the front room of their loft in Park Slope, creating elaborate, brightly colored canvases: his massive, anatomically detailed portraits of translucent bodies; her smaller kaleidoscopic grids, dotted with invented alphabets."
• Brett Helquist (born 1966), illustrator best known for his work in A Series of Unfortunate EventsGordon, A. L. [https://www.nysun.com/article/out-and-about-launch-of-lemony-snicket "Launch of Lemony Snicket"], The New York Sun, October 13, 2006, updated February 10, 2022. Accessed March 26, 2025. "Mr. Helquist did his illustrations from his home in Park Slope."
• Paul Ramirez Jonas (born 1965), contemporary artist and arts educatorPearson, Erica. [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/park-slope-artist-paul-ramirez-jonas-ordinary-people-key-city-article-1.178328 "Park Slope artist Paul Ramírez Jonas gives ordinary people 'key to the city'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204085107/http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/park-slope-artist-paul-ramirez-jonas-ordinary-people-key-city-article-1.178328 |date=February 4, 2017}}, New York Daily News, June 4, 2010. Accessed February 3, 2017. "Park Slope artist Paul Ramírez Jonas began giving out more than 25,000 of his custom-made keys – which open special locks around the city – at a Times Square kiosk Thursday."
• Byron Kim (born 1961), contemporary artistGlueck, Grace. [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/09/arts/art-in-review-byron-kim.html "Art in Review; Byron Kim"], The New York Times, December 9, 2005. Accessed March 26, 2025. "The most interesting works are photographic assemblages under the rubric What I See. These specific impressions of important places in his life, like the one of his backyard in Park Slope, Brooklyn, have a sweet, nostalgic poignancy."
• Joe Mangrum (born 1969), artist best known for his large-scale colored sand paintingsScheck, Olivia. [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20101101/manhattan/sand-painter-uses-manhattan-sidewalks-as-his-canvas "Sand Painter Uses Manhattan Sidewalks as His Canvas"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204004502/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20101101/manhattan/sand-painter-uses-manhattan-sidewalks-as-his-canvas |date=February 4, 2017}}, DNAinfo.com, November 1, 2010. Accessed February 3, 2017. "A graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mangrum has showed his art around the globe and received numerous awards for his work, but the Park Slope resident says the donations are his primary source of income."
• David Rees (born 1972), cartoonist, humorist and cultural critic[http://gothamist.com/2004/03/01/david_rees_cartoonist.php "David Rees, Cartoonist"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150422163125/http://gothamist.com/2004/03/01/david_rees_cartoonist.php |date=April 22, 2015}}, Gothamist, March 1, 2004. Accessed February 3, 2017. "I am a 31-year-old cartoonist. I live in Sunset Park, Brooklyn with my wife. Before Sunset Park we lived in Park Slope for two years."
• Lisa Sigal (born 1962), contemporary artist
• Joan Snyder (born 1940), painterRosenblum, Constance. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/realestate/16habi.html "A Brooklyn House With Country Roots"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204014830/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/realestate/16habi.html |date=February 4, 2017}}, The New York Times, May 14, 2010. Accessed February 3, 2017. "If ever a place fulfilled such a fantasy, it is the century-old robin's-egg blue house on 11th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where Ms. Snyder and Ms. Cammer have lived for the past decade."
• Lane Twitchell (born 1967), contemporary visual artistStaff. [http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/artnetnews1-12-06.asp "Artnet News: Starbucks Gets Artistic"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203003213/http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/artnetnews1-12-06.asp |date=February 3, 2017}}, Artnet, January 12, 2006. Accessed February 3, 2017. "Twitchell, who lives in Park Slope with his wife and young son and shows his elaborately patterned, stencil-cut artworks at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery on Fifth Avenue, has designed the packaging for four different varieties of premium coffee, which Starbucks plans to introduce every three months (the next coffee is due Mar. 14, 2006)."

;Suffragist

• Lucy Burns (1879–1966), suffragist and women's rights advocate[https://www.nancybkennedy.com/visit-a-suffrage-site/ Visit a Suffrage Site], Nancy B. Kennedy. Accessed March 26, 2025. "Lucy Burns Family Home (Brooklyn, New York). This row home at 904 President Street in Park Slope was the home of Burns’s family, to which she often returned as an adult."

;Writers

• Paul Auster (born 1947), author whose works include The Brooklyn FolliesLouie, Elaine. [https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/06/20/specials/auster-chance.html "AT HOME WITH: Paul Auster; Chance of a Lifetime"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110184906/http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/06/20/specials/auster-chance.html |date=January 10, 2018}}, The New York Times, October 5, 1995. Accessed March 13, 2017. "A year ago, Mr. Auster and his young daughter, Sophie, were walking through their neighborhood, Park Slope in Brooklyn."
• Franco Ambriz, playwright and director{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}
• Joan Bauer (born 1951), author of young adult fiction{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}
• Richard Bernstein (born 1944), journalist who writes the Letter from America column for The International Herald Tribune{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}
• Peter Blauner (born 1959), author, journalist and television producerHamill, Denis. [http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/boroughs/wrote-book-city-paranoia-article-1.727535 "He Wrote the Book on City Paranoia"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314063733/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/boroughs/wrote-book-city-paranoia-article-1.727535 |date=March 14, 2017}}, New York Daily News, June 23, 1996. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Blauner, now a Park Slope resident, is a former New York magazine writer and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for his first novel, Slow Motion Riot, set in the world of probation officers."
• Howard Bloom (born 1943), publicist and authorKleinman, Jacob. [http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/30/32_30_jk_real_prince.html "The Park Slope man who saved Purple Rain!"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908141635/http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/30/32_30_jk_real_prince.html |date=September 8, 2017}}, The Brooklyn Paper, July 28, 2009. Accessed March 13, 2017. "One of the most exciting events of the summer is a participatory screening of Prince's classic film Purple Rain in Prospect Park — but it never could have happened without one Park Slope man. Howard Bloom saved Prince's self-produced, 1984 film from the dustbin of history with an unprecedented one-man crusade that comes into full fruition with the sing-along presentation at Celebrate Brooklyn on Aug. 6."
• Charles M. Blow (born 1970), columnist for The New York Times[https://www.c-span.org/video/?298466-1/qa-charles-blow "Q&A with Charles Blow"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915203750/https://www.c-span.org/video/?298466-1%2Fqa-charles-blow |date=September 15, 2018}}, C-SPAN, March 15, 2011. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Brian Lamb: What part of this area do you live in? Charles M. Blow: In Brooklyn – Park Slope, Brooklyn."
• Helen Boyd (born 1969), author of two books about her relationship with her transgender partnerBader, Eleanor J. [https://brooklynrail.org/2007/09/local/wedding-bell-blues/ "Wedding Bell Blues"], The Brooklyn Rail, September 2009. Accessed March 26, 2025. "When writer Helen Boyd (born Gail Kramer) was growing up, she wanted to be C.S. Lewis. 'What that meant was unclear,' she laughs, sitting in her small Park Slope living room, a pack of Camels by her side."
• Arthur Bradford (born 1969), writer and filmmaker{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}
• Jane Brody (born 1941), author on science and nutrition topics
• Bruce Brooks (born 1950), writer of young adult and children's literature{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}
• Rudolph Delson (born 1975), author best known for his 2007 debut novel, Maynard and Jennica{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}
• Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005), radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornographyLevy, Ariel. [http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/11907/ "The Prisoner of Sex; A victim of abuse as a child, briefly a prostitute as a young woman, Andrea Dworkin married a gay man and spent three decades fighting hypersexualized America. She lost."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131224010/http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/11907/ |date=January 31, 2009}}, New York (magazine). Accessed March 13, 2017. "Friends say Dworkin had loved their previous home, a Park Slope brownstone, but it had become difficult for her to manage its stairs because of severe osteoarthritis in her knees, exacerbated by years of obesity."
• Dave Eggers (born 1970), author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering GeniusEggers, Dave [http://www.ted.com/talks/dave_eggers_makes_his_ted_prize_wish_once_upon_a_school/transcript "My wish: Once Upon a School"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920165634/http://www.ted.com/talks/dave_eggers_makes_his_ted_prize_wish_once_upon_a_school/transcript |date=September 20, 2016}}, TED (conference), March 2008. Accessed September 10, 2016. "In the Brooklyn neighborhood that I lived in, Park Slope, there are a lot of writers – it's like a very high per capita ratio of writers to normal people."
• Jennie Fields (born 1953), novelistScott, Janny. [https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/15/nyregion/the-brownstone-storytellers-a-colony-of-writers-is-growing-in-park-slope.html?pagewanted=all "The Brownstone Storytellers; A Colony of Writers Is Growing in Park Slope"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314064327/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/15/nyregion/the-brownstone-storytellers-a-colony-of-writers-is-growing-in-park-slope.html?pagewanted=all |date=March 14, 2017}}, The New York Times, May 15, 1995. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Colin Harrison, author and editor, lives with his wife, Kathryn Harrison, novelist, in a brownstone a block from Thomas Boyle, writer of thrillers, who lives in a brownstone a block from Luc Sante, writer, and his wife, Melissa Holbrook Pierson, the same.... Jennie Fields's block in Park Slope is the hero of her new novel."
• Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977), author whose novels include Extremely Loud & Incredibly CloseMorris, Bob. [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/fashion/sundaystyles/no-sleep-till-brooklyn.html "No Sleep Till Brooklyn"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101122736/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/fashion/sundaystyles/no-sleep-till-brooklyn.html |date=January 1, 2019}}, The New York Times, April 24, 2005. Accessed March 13, 2017. "A few weeks ago the news broke that Jonathan Safran Foer, the young novelist, was trading up in Park Slope, selling one home for more than $3 million and buying another for $6.75 million."
• Rozanne Gold, chef, journalist and cookbook authorGold, Rozanne. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rozanne-gold/thanksgiving-recipes_b_2169266.html "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rozanne-gold/thanksgiving-recipes_b_2169266.html"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314064401/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rozanne-gold/thanksgiving-recipes_b_2169266.html |date=March 14, 2017}}, The Huffington Post, January 21, 2013. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Jane Brody, the personal health columnist for The New York Times since 1975, is my neighbor in Park Slope, Brooklyn."
• Ben Greenman (born 1969), novelist, author and magazine journalistStrauss, Darin. [http://brooklynrail.org/2004/03/books/ben-greenman-with-darin-strauss "Ben Greenman with Darin Strauss"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314064009/http://brooklynrail.org/2004/03/books/ben-greenman-with-darin-strauss |date=March 14, 2017}}, The Brooklyn Rail, March 1, 2004. Accessed March 13, 2017. "In the middle of February, Strauss sat down with Greenman at the latter's home in Park Slope."
• Pete Hamill (1935–2020), journalist who was a columnist and editor for the New York Post and New York Daily NewsHamill, Pete. [http://nymag.com/anniversary/40th/50654/ "Brooklyn Revisited; The author returns home to find that everything, and nothing, has changed."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629030647/http://nymag.com/anniversary/40th/50654/ |date=June 29, 2009}}, New York (magazine), September 28, 2008. Accessed March 13, 2017. "At the time, I was living alone in a rented garden apartment on Berkeley Place in Park Slope, getting over a sad divorce, drinking too much, trying everything in my power to calm the confusions of my two young daughters."
• Colin Harrison (born 1960), author whose books include Manhattan NocturneWilson, Michael. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/nyregion/16routine.html "Eggs, Bacon and a Baseball Cap"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127063942/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/nyregion/16routine.html |date=January 27, 2018}}, The New York Times, August 14, 2009. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Colin Harrison, 48, is a crime novelist and an editor at Simon & Schuster. His latest book, The Finder, was published last year. He lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with his wife, the writer Kathryn Harrison, and their three children, Sarah, 19; Walker, 17; and Julia, 9."
• Kathryn Harrison (born 1961), author
• John Hodgman (born 1971), author, actor and humoristSalisbury, Vanita. [http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/11/john-hodgman-21-questions.html "John Hodgman Enjoys Breathing"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314153621/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/11/john-hodgman-21-questions.html |date=March 14, 2017}}, New York (magazine), November 14, 2012. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Name: John Hodgman; Age: 41; Neighborhood: Park Slope"
• Siri Hustvedt (born 1955), novelist and essayist who wrote The Sorrows of an Americanhttp://www.bkmag.com/2011/03/01/the-five-reasons-i-love-brooklyn-siri-hustvedt/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314064424/http://www.bkmag.com/2011/03/01/the-five-reasons-i-love-brooklyn-siri-hustvedt/ |date=March 14, 2017}} "The Five Reasons I Love Brooklyn: Siri Hustvedt"], Brooklyn Magazine, March 1, 2011. Accessed March 13, 2017. "The novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt has lived in Park Slope with her husband Paul Auster for more than two decades."
• Steven Johnson (born 1968), authorPogrebin, Robin. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/books/04map.html "In a Multimedia Realm Where Book Meets Blog"], The New York Times, December 4, 2006. Accessed March 26, 2025. "Outside.in — which Mr. Johnson started with John Geraci and his founding partners Andrew Karsch, Mark Bailey and John Seely Brown — was largely inspired by Mr. Johnson’s move from Greenwich Village to Park Slope, where he lives with his wife, Alexa Robinson, and their three boys, ages 5 and under."
• Norton Juster (1929–2021), writer{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
• Lindsey Kelk, chick lit author and journalist[http://www.chicklitcentral.com/2013/07/home-and-away-with-lindsey-kelkplus.html "Home and Away with Lindsey Kelk...plus a book giveaway"], Chick Lit Central, July 18, 2013. Accessed March 26, 2025. "[Q] If we were to visit you where you currently live, what would you take us to see first? [A] I live in Park Slope in Brooklyn but I'm a good host, so the first place I'd take you would either be the bagel place, the BBQ place or the 24 hour diner, depending on the time."
• Jim Knipfel (born 1965), novelist and journalistCardace, Sara. [https://nymag.com/arts/books/shortlists/38885/ "Who’s a Bum?"], The New Yorker, October 3, 2007. Accessed March 26, 2025. "Park Slope author Knipfel’s books (and his long-running column in the New York Press) have consistently been well-received."
• Nicole Krauss (born 1974), author of Man Walks Into a Room, The History of Love and Great HouseSmith, Dinitia. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/books/15broo.html "Literary Voice, Brooklyn Accent"], The New York Times, September 15, 2006. Accessed March 26, 2025. "Perhaps the end really began when Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated) and his wife, Nicole Krauss (The History of Love), bought their house in Park Slope last year for $6.7 million."
• Jhumpa Lahiri (born 1967), author whose story collection Interpreter of Maladies (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for FictionVitale, Tom. [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89311782 "Transplanted Author Finds Roots in Writing"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809071027/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89311782 |date=August 9, 2018}}, All Things Considered April 8, 2008. Acceessed March 13, 2017. "In all her work, acclaimed author Jhumpa Lahiri has focused on the lives and struggles of Bengali-Americans.... In New York, after Akash was born, she'd negotiated a part-time schedule at her law firm, spending Thursdays and Fridays at home in Park Slope, and this had seemed like the perfect balance."
• Jonathan Lethem (born 1964), novelist{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
• Clifford J. LevyLevy, Clifford J. "My Family's Experiment in Extreme Schooling." The New York Times. September 15, 2011. [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/my-familys-experiment-in-extreme-schooling.html?pagewanted=all 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225205215/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/my-familys-experiment-in-extreme-schooling.html?pagewanted=all |date=December 25, 2016}}. Retrieved on May 21, 2012.
• Laura Jean Libbey (1862-1924), author of dime novelsDe Vries, Susan. [https://www.brownstoner.com/real-estate-market/parks-slope-brownstone-for-sale-916-president-street-2023/ "Park Slope Brownstone With Built-ins, Mantels Returns With Price Chop to $5.4 Million"], Brownstoner, December 6, 2023. Accessed March 26, 2025. "Down the block from Prospect Park and within the Park Slope Historic District, the 20-foot-wide brownstone at 916 President Street is one of a stretch of houses built by Patrick Sheridan.... That owner was Laura Jean Libbey, a popular late 19th century writer of dime novel romances."
• Michael Patrick MacDonald (born 1966), anti-crime activist{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
• Daisy Martinez, actress and authorSilvestri, Pamela. [https://www.silive.com/entertainment/dining/2010/05/a_dose_of_daisy.html "A dose of Daisy"], Staten Island Advance, May 19, 2010. Accessed March 26, 2025. "She’s stoked about coming back to Staten Island: Ms. Martinez grew up in Eltingville. She lives with her husband and family in Park Slope, Brooklyn."
• Rick Moody (born 1961), novelistLeavitt, Caroline. [https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/review-rick-moodys-long-accomplishment-memoir-is-deeply-honest-full-of-grace "Review: Rick Moody’s ‘'Long Accomplishment memoir is deeply honest, full of grace"], San Francisco Chronicle'', August 13, 2019. Accessed March 26, 2025. "With a divorce and a young daughter, alcoholism, depression and years of not-so-healthy sexual encounters under his belt, Moody meets photographer Nakadate in an ashram where he’s giving a reading. Soon, they embark on what seems like a great adventure. They marry and move in together in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and decide to have a child, but fertility ferociously eludes them."
• Mary Morris (born 1947), author and professor at Sarah Lawrence CollegeWilliams, Alex. [http://nymag.com/nymag/features/n_8972/index2.html "The New Literary Lottery; Good news for aspiring novelists: Advances for first-time authors have blown sky-high. The catch? If the book doesn't sell, the fallout can kill your career."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314153623/http://nymag.com/nymag/features/n_8972/index2.html |date=March 14, 2017}}, New York (magazine). Accessed March 13, 2017. "Novelist Mary Morris is something of a Mother Superior to Brooklyn's exploding writers' scene. The author of thirteen highly readable midlist books, Morris presides over an exclusive writers' group, which meets weekly in her Park Slope brownstone."
• Itamar Moses (born 1977), playwright, author and television writer[https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2011/01/14/moses-play-returns-to-the-promised-land/ "Moses’ play returns to the promised land"], Yale Daily News, January 14, 2011. Accessed March 26, 2025. "Playwright and newly hired television writer Itamar Moses earned his MFA in dramatic writing at New York University after graduating from Yale in 1999. Now a resident of Park Slope, Brooklyn, he has since written several critically acclaimed plays and taught a residential college seminar on playwriting."
• Melissa Holbrook Pierson (born 1957), writer and essayist of non-fiction
• Robert Reuland (born 1963), writer and criminal lawyerLee, Jennifer 8. [https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/a-tree-disappears-in-brooklyn/ "Park Slope Is Abuzz About a Missing Maple"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151027001255/http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/a-tree-disappears-in-brooklyn/ |date=October 27, 2015}}, The New York Times, September 10, 2008. Accessed May 9, 2017. "Robert Reuland, a retired prosecutor who lives across the street from the maple, said his wife was upset when she saw the chopping crew."
• Adam Roberts (stage name Amateur Gourmet), food and humor writerRoberts, Adam. [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-junk-food-is-ok-for-kids_b_858326 "Let Them Eat Cake (Why Junk Food Is OK For Kids, In Moderation)"], Huffington Post, May 9, 2011. Accessed March 26, 2025. "Having lived in Park Slope, Brooklyn for several years, I observed some of these children. Fed on a diet of yogurt and alfalfa sprouts, their faces were wan, their eyes were hollow. These were children who'd never experienced the joys of a root beer float, a slice of rainbow-sprinkle covered birthday cake or the tongue-prickling delight of a box of Nerds."
• Elizabeth Royte, writerCurtis, Lisa J. [https://www.brooklynpaper.com/trashy-tale/ "Trashy Tale"], Brooklyn Paper, August 12, 2005. Accessed March 26, 2025. "Park Slope author Elizabeth Royte will encourage you to get in touch with the coffee grounds and other cast-offs in the bottom of your trash can when she reads from her new book Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash at BookCourt on Aug. 13 at 6 pm."
• Lucy Sante (born 1954), writer and critic
• Brian Selznick (born 1966), illustrator and writer{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
• Jon Scieszka (born 1954), children's writerRich, Motoko. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/books/03laur.html "Stinky Cheese! Ambassador for Children’s Literature"], The New York Times, January 3, 2008. Accessed March 26, 2025. "Mr. Scieszka quit teaching and devoted himself to writing full time from his home in Park Slope, Brooklyn."
• David Shenk, writer and filmmaker[https://www.newsweek.com/brooklyn-vigil-152125 "Brooklyn Vigil"], Newsweek, September 10, 2001, updated March 13, 2010. Accessed March 26, 2025. "My friend David Shenk stood on top of his Park Slope building when the Towers were merely in flames and described the feeling of having his jaw scraping the tar of his roof."
• Marilyn Singer (born 1948), children's writer{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
• Amy Sohn, author, columnist and screenwriter{{cite news|author=Steven Kurtz|access-date=August 17, 2012|date=September 9, 2009|title=At Home with Amy Sohn: A Park Slope Novel Seems a Little Too Real|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/garden/10sohn.html?pagewanted=all}}
• John Stoltenberg (born 1944), magazine editor{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
• Darin Strauss (born 1970), writer{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
• Penelope Trunk (born 1966), author, blogger and entrepreneur{{cite web|title=How I learned to live with no refrigerator|url=https://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2014/06/04/how-i-learned-to-live-with-no-refrigerator/|date=June 14, 2014|publisher=Penelope Trunk Blog|access-date=January 8, 2024}}
• Elisabeth Vincentelli, French-born arts and culture journalist{{Cite web|url=https://www.dramacritics.org/dc_current.html|title=Current Membership|website=dramacritics.org|access-date=March 10, 2019}}
• Ned Vizzini (1981–2013), novelist{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
• Brian Wood (born 1972), comic book creator{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
• Jacqueline Woodson (born 1963), writer{{cite web|title=Author Chat with Jacqueline Woodson|url=http://www.nypl.org/author-chat-jacqueline-woodson|work=23 July 2003|publisher=New York Public Library|access-date=February 22, 2014}}
• William Upski Wimsatt (born 1972), author and political activist{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}

;Politicians

• Carol Bellamy (born 1942), former New York state senator and New York City Council presidentRichardson, Lynda. [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/14/nyregion/a-forceful-voice-for-the-children-of-the-tsunami.html "A Forceful Voice for the Children of the Tsunami"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220103180032/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/14/nyregion/a-forceful-voice-for-the-children-of-the-tsunami.html |date=January 3, 2022}}, The New York Times, January 14, 2005. Accessed January 3, 2022. "It is just after 7 a.m. and Carol Bellamy has been at work for more than two hours.... For someone who arrives at work every day before 5 a.m. from her home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, she does not seem in the least worn out by her rigorous schedule."
• James F. Brennan (born 1952), former New York State Assembly member.
• Hugh Carey (1919–2011), former governor of New York and U.S. representativeLovett, Kenneth. [https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/gov-hugh-carey-bailed-new-york-city-troubled-1970s-dead-92-article-1.949695 "Gov. Hugh Carey, who bailed out New York City during troubled 1970s, dead at 92"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220103180032/https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/gov-hugh-carey-bailed-new-york-city-troubled-1970s-dead-92-article-1.949695 |date=January 3, 2022}}, New York Daily News, August 7, 2011. Accessed January 3, 2022. "Born April 11, 1919, in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Carey was a graduate of St. John's University and St. John's Law School."
• Robert Carroll, New York State Assembly member{{Cite web|url=https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Robert-C-Carroll/comm/|title = Robert C. Carroll – Assembly District 44 |Assembly Member Directory | New York State Assembly}}
• Bill de Blasio (born 1961), former New York City mayorFoggatt, Tyler. [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/17/bill-de-blasio-slept-here "Bill de Blasio Slept Here The listing for the yellow clapboard house in Park Slope sounded too good to be true, and it was: the landlord turned out to be the Mayor of New York City."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017075003/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/17/bill-de-blasio-slept-here |date=October 17, 2021}}, The New Yorker, August 10, 2020. Accessed January 3, 2022. "It was a three-story yellow clapboard house in Park Slope, with blue French doors and southern exposures.... Bill de Blasio bought the yellow house on Eleventh Street in 2000, for four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. (It's now worth more than $1.5 million.) It was his family's primary residence before they moved into Gracie Mansion, in 2014."
• Francis Edwin Dorn, former U.S. representative
• Helen Gahagan Douglas, actress and former U.S. representative
• Patrick Gaspard, diplomat
• William Jay Gaynor, former New York City mayor
• Chris Hayes, journalist
• Brad Lander, New York City Council member
• Marty Markowitz, former New York state senator and Brooklyn borough president
• Chirlane McCray, writer and activist, married to Bill de Blasio
• Max Rose (born 1986), U.S. representative from 2019 to 2021Glueck, Katie. [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/nyregion/staten-island-park-slope-redistricting.html "Park Slope and Staten Island: An Unlikely Political Marriage"], The New York Times, February 21, 2022. Accessed May 20, 2024. "Mr. Rose, who grew up in Park Slope, had cast himself as more of a Staten Island Democrat with a brash personal style and relatively centrist politics, and some party officials see him as a strong general election fit in the new district."
• Gene Russianoff, attorney and chief spokesman for the Straphangers CampaignGootman, Elissa. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/nyregion/24routine.html "A Day Without a Train"], The New York Times, October 22, 2010. Accessed May 20, 2024. "But on Sundays, Mr. Russianoff, 57, Ms. Toole, 54, and their daughters, Jennie, 14, and Natalie, 11, who all live in Park Slope, dash around Brooklyn on foot, by bus and, if they are late to a soccer game, by car service."
• Chuck Schumer, U.S. senator, former U.S. representative
• Anthony Weiner, former U.S. representative

Scientists

• Henry Petroski (1942–2023), engineer specializing in failure analysis[https://today.duke.edu/2023/06/henry-petroski-poet-laureate-technology-and-professor-engineering-and-history-dies "Henry Petroski, ‘Poet Laureate of Technology’ and Professor of Engineering and History, Dies"], Duke Today, June 14, 2023. Accessed May 20, 2024. "Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Park Slope and Cambria Heights, Queens, Petroski turned his curiosity about the origins of the structures and objects around him into a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Manhattan College in 1963."

Chess players

• Fabiano Caruana{{cite web|title=Searching for the Next Bobby Fischer, the U.S. Finds Fabi|website=The New York Times|date=November 3, 2018|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/sports/bobby-fischer-chess-caruana.html|access-date=November 29, 2018}}

Criminals

• Al CaponeBergreen, Capone: The Man and the Era, Simon & Schuster, p. 36

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• {{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0709.pdf|title=Park Slope Historic District|date=July 7, 1973|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|ref={{harvid|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1973}}}}
• {{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2443.pdf|title=Park Slope Historic District Extension I|date=April 7, 2012|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|ref={{harvid|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2012}}}}
• {{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2558.pdf|title=Park Slope Historic District Extension II|date=April 12, 2016|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|ref={{harvid|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2016}}}}

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