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Park Slope is a in South , New York City, within the area once known as . Park Slope is roughly bounded by Prospect Park and Prospect Park West to the east, Fourth Avenue to the west, to the north, and Prospect Expressway to the south. Generally, the neighborhood is divided into three sections from north to south: North Slope, Center Slope, and South Slope. New York Visitors Guide, Park Slope & Prospect Heights , New York, Accessed June 23, 2009. "Boundaries, Park Slope: From 19th St. north to Flatbush Ave., From Prospect Park W. west to Fourth Ave" Park Slope neighborhood profile , New York, extracted from a March 10, 2003 article. Accessed September 25, 2007. "Boundaries: Stretching from Prospect Park West to Fourth Avenue, Park Place to Prospect Expressway."Oser, Alan N. "Rezoning, and Redefining, Park Slope", The New York Times, December 28, 2003. Accessed March 26, 2025. "As broadly defined by brokers marketing real estate there, Park Slope is bordered by Flatbush Avenue to the north, the Prospect Expressway to the south, Prospect Park and Prospect Park West to the east, and Fourth Avenue to the west. The April rezoning actually extends west as far as Third Avenue on some blocks, and only as far as 15th Street to the south." The neighborhood takes its name from its location on the western slope of neighboring Prospect Park. Fifth Avenue and Seventh Avenue are its primary commercial streets, while its east–west side streets are lined with and apartment buildings.

Park Slope was settled by the before Europeans arrived in the 17th century. The area was mostly farms and woods until the early 19th century, when the land was subdivided into rectangular parcels. The western section of the neighborhood was occupied in the mid-19th century, being located near the industrial and ferries. After the completion of Prospect Park, numerous mansions and rowhouses were developed in Park Slope's eastern section in the 1880s. Park Slope faced social and infrastructural decline in the mid-20th century, but the building stock was renovated after the area became gentrified starting in the 1960s. Much of the neighborhood is overlaid by the Park Slope Historic District, which is composed of a National Historic District and a New York City landmark district.

Park Slope features historic buildings, top-rated restaurants, bars, and shops, as well as proximity to Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the , the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, and the Central Library and Park Slope branches of the Brooklyn Public Library. Brooklyn Public Library , accessed August 17, 2006 The neighborhood had a population of about 62,200 as of the 2000 census. Park Slope is generally ranked as one of New York City's most desirable neighborhoods.

Park Slope is part of Brooklyn Community District 6, and its primary are 11215 and 11217. It is patrolled by the 78th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. Politically, it is represented by the New York City Council's 33rd and 39th Districts. Current City Council Districts for Kings County , New York City. Accessed May 5, 2017.

History
Early settlement
Though modern-day Brooklyn is coextensive with Kings County, this was not always the case. , 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 , one of several indigenous peoples who farmed and hunted on the land. The Lenape typically lived in , and had larger fishing and hunting communities near freshwater sites on higher land.; Several Lenape roads crossed the landscape
(2025). 9780343113056, Museum of the American Indian, Heye foundation. .
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 . 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.;

The first European settlement occurred in 1637-1639 when , the Dutch West India Company's director, purchased almost all land in what is now Brooklyn and Queens. 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 and Hessian mercenaries routed outnumbered American forces, which resulted in the British occupation of Long and Staten Islands.

(2025). 9780195181593, Oxford University Press US.
(2025). 9780743226721, Simon and Schuster Paperback. .
The Battle Pass site is now preserved in Prospect Park, while on Fifth Avenue, there is a reconstruction of the Old Stone House, a farmhouse where a countercharge covered the American retreat.

19th century
Early development
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,; prior to the establishment of the Fulton Ferry to Manhattan in 1814. 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 . 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 , which caused fevers and other illnesses. 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.
(1999). 9780877457145, University of Iowa Press. .

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, the Commissioners Plan of 1839 was devised, a street plan that extended to South Brooklyn.;

(1980). 9780933250048, Brooklyn Educational & Cultural Alliance.
Park Slope was originally located in the northern section of the Eighth Ward, which at the time was the city's least populous ward.

The Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad started running on Atlantic Avenue, north of Park Slope, in 1836.; 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.

(2025). 9780823222117, Fordham University Press. .
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.

Prospect Park and further development
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 into a canal, including draining the marshes in its watershed. Between 1849 and 1860, under a decree by the New York Legislature, the Gowanus Creek was deepened. Simultaneously, a local and railroad developer named Edwin Clarke Litchfield (1815–1885) purchased large tracts of what was then farmland, erecting his on the east side of the neighborhood in 1857.
(1972). 9780913252062, Long Island University Press. .
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. The largest of these proposed parks was a plot east of Ninth and Tenth Avenue in the Eighth Ward. After work was stopped during the Civil War, the proposed park's boundaries were changed, shifting the boundaries slightly west and south. 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 $1.7 million ($ million in ).

(2025). 9781586850470, Gibbs Smith.
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, dramatically changed the neighborhood into a . The opening of the in 1883 led to further development in the city of Brooklyn.

(2025). 9780814799468, . .
The Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad extended its Fifth Avenue elevated line to South Brooklyn six years later. During the 1890s, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company added electric trolley lines or converted old stagecoach lines to electric service.;

Upscale residential neighborhood
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. 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. By 1883, with the opening of the , Park Slope continued to boom and subsequent and 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."

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 moved the team to his stadium in Flatbush for the beginning of the 1913 season. Dodgers Ballparks , accessed May 27, 2006 The 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.

20th century to present
Following Brooklyn's subsumption into the City of Greater New York in 1898 and accelerating in the 1910s, many and upper middle-class families , initially to outlying Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods (such as nearby Flatbush) and thence to more distant locales in Westchester County, Nassau County and amid the adoption of the . 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 neighborhood amid the subdivision of the expansive Victorian-era housing stock into apartment buildings and .

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. The -designed 35 Prospect Park West, marketed as a competitor to the upscale apartment houses of , and Central Park West, opened right before the in 1929, and contained a variety of luxury accommodations (including penthouses, duplexes and maisonettes) alongside "just plain apartments". 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.

(2025). 9781429907095, St. Martin's Publishing Group. .

By the 1950s, the working-class and populations predominated, though this changed by the 1970s as the black and Latino population of the area increased and the population began to relocate amid the less exclusive, though effectively segregated, wave of . 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. After this failed, white teenagers engaged in 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; in the aftermath of the fight, fourteen African-Americans and three Italian-Americans were arrested.

On December 16, 1960, two airliners collided above , 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 , was able to stay airborne for a few miles before crashing near the corner of Sterling Place and Seventh Avenue. Everyone on board was instantly killed, except for one 11-year-old boy, , who died the following night at New York Methodist Hospital. 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 along Berkeley Place sparked a trend where the rest of the brownstones were cleaned up and the grittiness of the neighborhood began to fade. 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. Preservationists helped secure landmark status for many of the neighborhood's blocks of historic , , 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.

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. 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 milieu as one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in —and the nation. Sociologist and urban theorist 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." Since the mid-1990s, gentrification has increased: a 2001 report by the New York City Rent Guidelines Board found that from 1990 to 1999, in Park Slope increased by 3.5–4.4% per year, depending on what kind of building the apartment was in. Urban Gentry , Report, Spring 2003

Land use
Park Slope contains a variety of 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.

Official landmarks
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. The historic district was also designated by the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1973; the city-designated district was extended to the south in 2012 and to the north in 2016. 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
  • , an mansion built in 1854–1857 on a large private estate now located in Prospect Park
  • Public Bath No. 7, a bathhouse built between 1906 and 1910 in the style of a Renaissance
  • Public School 39, built in 1876–1877 in the Italianate and Second Empire styles
  • William B. Cronyn House, built in 1856 in the Second Empire style

Additionally, the Brooklyn Public Library's Park Slope branch, a built in 1905–06, is a city landmark. The Fourth Avenue station and 15th Street–Prospect Park station are NRHP landmarks that are part of the New York City Subway System Multiple Property Submission (MPS). 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.

The Grand Prospect Hall, an NRHP-listed banquet hall on Prospect Avenue, was built in 1892 and was demolished in 2022.Yakas, Ben. "Preservation hopes fade as Grand Prospect Hall facade is demolished", , 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."

Demographics
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 , the neighborhood had a population density of . Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010 , 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. 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. This is slightly higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. 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.

As of 2016, the median in Community District 6 was $134,804. 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, , Park Slope and Carroll Gardens are considered to be high income and not .

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.

Police and crime
Park Slope is patrolled by the 78th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 65 6th Avenue. The 78th Precinct ranked 41st safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. , with a non-fatal assault rate of 30 per 100,000 people, Park Slope and Carroll Gardens' rate of 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.

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.

Fire safety
The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) operates three fire stations in Park Slope:
  • Engine Company 220/Ladder Company 122 – 530 11th Street
  • Engine Company 239 – 395 4th Avenue
  • Squad 1/Technical Response Vehicle – 788 Union Street

Health
, 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). Park Slope and Carroll Gardens has a relatively high population of residents who are uninsured, or who receive healthcare through . New York City Health Provider Partnership Brooklyn Community Needs Assessment: Final Report , 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%.

The concentration of , the deadliest type of , in Park Slope and Carroll Gardens is , higher than the citywide and boroughwide averages. Fifteen percent of Park Slope and Carroll Gardens residents are , which is slightly higher than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers. In Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, 15% of residents are , 6% are diabetic, and 22% have —compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively. In addition, 9% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.

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%. For every supermarket in Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, there are 12 bodegas.

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

Post offices and ZIP Codes
Park Slope is covered by two : 11217 north of Union Street and 11215 south of Union Street. The United States Post Office operates three locations nearby:
  • Prospect Park West Station – 225 Prospect Park West
  • Park Slope Station – 198 7th Avenue
  • Van Brunt Station – 279 9th Street

Community
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. 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." In December 2006, 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. "America's Best Eco-Neighborhoods" , , December 6, 2006

Institutions
  • The Park Slope Food Coop, one of the oldest and largest active food co-ops in the United States,Bellafante, Ginia. "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?" , 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 hours every six weeks.
  • The Park Slope Volunteer Ambulance Corps provides free emergency medical services to community members.
  • 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. Its Frances Residency Program provides shelter and support for young homeless mothers and their infants and toddlers; it was founded in 1971.

LGBT
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< /a> Notable LGBT nightlife spaces in Park Slope include the long-operating lesbian bar Ginger's and the queer bar and performance venue Good Judy. The neighborhood also hosts the annual Brooklyn Pride Parade and Festival.

Religion
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.
(2025). 9781625840516, Arcadia Publishing Incorporated. .

Churches
  • 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)
  • 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)

Synagogues
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 , sponsored by members of the various communities, that surrounds Park Slope.

Synagogues include:

  • Park Slope Jewish Center (Conservative), 14th Street and Eighth Avenue
  • Congregation B'nai Jacob (Modern Orthodox), 401 9th Street
  • Congregation Beth Elohim (Reform), 274 Garfield Place; this is the largest Reform synagogue in Brooklyn, and also the longest-running congregation
  • Congregation Kolot Chayeinu (unaffiliated, progressive), 1012 Eighth Avenue

Education
Park Slope and Carroll Gardens generally have a much higher ratio of college-educated residents than the rest of the city . 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. 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.

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 , compared to the citywide average of 20% of students. Additionally, 77% of high school students in Park Slope and Carroll Gardens graduate on time, higher than the citywide average of 75% of students.

Schools
Public schools
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)
  • PS 39, Henry Bristow School (grades PK–5, dist. 15)
  • PS 107, John W. Kimball Learning Center (grades K–5, dist. 15)
  • PS 118, the Maurice Sendak Community School (grades PK–5, dist. 15)
  • PS 124, Silas B. Dutcher Elementary School (grades PK–5, dist. 15)
  • PS 133, William A. Butler School (grades PK–5, dist. 13, with admissions open to both dist. 13 and 15)
  • PS/MS 282, Park Slope School (grades PK–8, dist. 13)
  • PS 321, the William Penn School (grades K–5, dist. 15)
  • MS 51, William Alexander Middle School (grades 6–8, dist. 15)
  • JHS 88 Peter Rouget (grades 6–8, dist. 15)
  • MS 266, Park Place School (grades 6–8, dist. 13)
  • John Jay Educational Campus (formerly John Jay HS, dist. 15). The building houses four schools:
    • Park Slope Collegiate (grades 6–12)
    • Millennium Brooklyn High School (grades 9–12)
    • Cyberarts Studio Academy (grades 9–12)
    • Secondary School for Law (grades 9–12)

Private schools
  • 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 .
  • 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)

Libraries
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. The Brooklyn Central Library is located across Grand Army Plaza from the northeast corner of Park Slope.

Transportation
The neighborhood is well-served by the New York City Subway. The IND Culver Line () 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 () runs under Flatbush Avenue with an express stop at Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center, and local stops (served by the ) at Bergen Street and Grand Army Plaza. The BMT Fourth Avenue Line's local trains () serve Prospect Avenue, Ninth Street, and Union Street stations, with the all serving Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center, an express station. The BMT Brighton Line () 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.

Additionally, several MTA New York City Transit bus routes serve the area, including the B61, B63, B67, and B69.

Notable people
Actors
  • (born 1977)Lee, Linda. "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."
  • (born 1971), actor
  • (born 1957)Tucker, Reed. "All about Steve Buscemi" , 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
  • (born 1964)
  • (born 1966)Mompanek, Christopher. "Cobble thrill" , 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. "Next on His Docket: A Supreme Challenge" , 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. "Maggie Gyllenhaal on Brownstone Living" , 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."
  • (born 1971), author, actor, and humoristBergin, Brigid. "John Hodgman to de Blasios: You'll Miss Us in Park Slope" , , 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."
  • (born 1964), actress Home Page , RobinJohnson.net. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Robin Johnson was born May 29, 1964, and grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn."
  • , film director and screenwriter
  • (born 1954), actor and theatre director, who is a founding member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company
  • (born 1963), writer, director and producer, known as the writer of the films Open Water (2005) and Silent HouseWadler, Joyce. "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."
  • (born 1964), actor, vocalist and record producer
  • (born 1957), actressGoldman, Lowell. "Challenges Welcome For Kelly Mcgillis" , 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."
  • (born 1972), actor, model, screenwriter and producerPaumgarten, Nick. "The Race Card" , 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."
  • (born 1974), actressSchulman, Michael. "Sarah Paulson Opens Up About Acting, Marcia Clark and Dating Older Women" , 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."
  • (born 1959), stand-up comedian, actor and writer, best known for his work on Saturday Night LiveCatton, Pia. "Colin Quinn: Take Your Melting Pot, PleaseThe comedian's new show is a snappy, 75-minute monologue about race and ethnicity in NYC" , 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."
  • (born 1976), actress and dancer
  • (born 1971), actor. "Together Off Broadway and Elsewhere" , 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."
  • (born 1982), comedian, writer, actor, and TV hostMiller, Rachel. "Brooklyn's 50 Funniest People: Streeter Seidell" , 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
  • (born 1940), actor whose career has included roles on stage, television and filmChristian, Scott. "Patrick Stewart Moves To Brooklyn, Becomes Coolest Guy Ever" , 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."
  • (born 1981), actress
  • (born 1957), actor, writer and filmmakerKoblin, John. "In The Night Of, John Turturro Picks Up Where James Gandolfini Left Off" , 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."
  • (born 1963), actor best known for his role as in the HBO television series, Martinez, Erika. "'Artie's' Goose is 'Coked' – Sopranos Chef in Drug & DWI Bust" , 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
  • (born 1993), Olympic fencerCoffey, Wayne. "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."
  • (born 1985), Major League Baseball player
  • (1940–2023), MLB first baseman and outfielder who played for the New York YankeesKrell, David. 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. "I'm just Inga – the real diva is Foxy Brown" , New York Post, July 17, 2011. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Brown was raised by her mother, a teacher, in Park Slope."
  • (born 1967), jazz drummerMilkowski, Bill. "Before & After with Drummer Jim Black; Between Motian and J Mood" , , 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."
  • (born 1960), musician and songwriterVelsey, Kim. "Dépêche-toi! '80s Band Leader Buys Beautiful J.Crew House" , 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."
  • (born 1965), Jazz saxophonistChinen, Nate. "Ravi Coltrane" , , 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."
  • (born 1970), singer-songwriterAmorim, Kevin. "Jonathan Coulton singing the blues over Glee" , , 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. "Music Upstairs and Downstairs" , 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. "Dave Douglas", , 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."
  • (born 1955), jazz violinist.
  • (born 1972), composer, multi-instrumentalist, writer, producer and founding member of One Ring ZeroWise, Brian. "Jangled by a Jingle, He Writes His Own ..." , 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. "African Star Shines in Park SlopeAngelique Kidjo Recounts Career, Childhood and Exile in New Autobiography" , 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.
  • born 1975), hip hop recording artistConnor, Tracy. "Brooklyn rapper Talib Kweli knew it was hip to hop fence and join Occupy Wall Street activists" , 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."
  • (born 1959), singer-songwriter of They Might Be GiantsKompanek, Christopher. "Giant-sized pad" , 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 (born 1975), songwriters / composers who wrote the song "Let It Go" for the movie FrozenKaufman, Joanne. "Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Frozen Songwriter, at Home" , 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.
  • Arturo O'Farrill (born 1960), jazz musicianRobbins, Liz. "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. "Fans Want to Rename Park Slope Street for Rapper Pumpkinhead" , 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."
  • (born 1979, lead singer and songwriter of ThursdayShinefield, Mordechai. "Interview: Thursday Frontman Geoff Rickly" , 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."
  • (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. "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."
  • (born 1967), saxophonist, clarinetist and composer.
  • , band.
  • (born 1986), jazz violinist and recording artistPunjabi, Rajul. "French Jazz Violinist Scott Tixier on His 'Sleep No More' Debut" , 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
  • (born 1961), member of the 1980s band The Del Fuegos

Artists
  • (born 1964), contemporary artist, who creates work in performance art, sculpture and photographyWalsh, Brienne. "'Crossing Brooklyn' Showcases Artistic, Demographic Diversity" , 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. "Hyped to Death; The short life of Jean-Michel Basquiat, graffiti artist turned gallery commodity." , The New York Times, August 9, 1998. Accessed February 3, 2017. "Basquiat was born in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on Dec. 22, 1960."
  • (born 1953), visionary artist, author, teacher and Vajrayana practitionerLeland, John. "At Home With: Alex And Allyson Grey; Tuition and Other Head Trips" , 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."
  • (born 1966), illustrator best known for his work in A Series of Unfortunate EventsGordon, A. L. "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. "Park Slope artist Paul Ramírez Jonas gives ordinary people 'key to the city'" , 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."
  • (born 1961), contemporary artist. "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."
  • (born 1969), artist best known for his large-scale colored sand paintingsScheck, Olivia. "Sand Painter Uses Manhattan Sidewalks as His Canvas" , 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 "David Rees, Cartoonist" , , 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."
  • (born 1962), contemporary artist
  • (born 1940), painterRosenblum, Constance. "A Brooklyn House With Country Roots" , 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."
  • (born 1967), contemporary visual artistStaff. "Artnet News: Starbucks Gets Artistic" , , 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
  • (1879–1966), and women's rights advocate 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
  • (born 1947), author whose works include The Brooklyn FolliesLouie, Elaine. "AT HOME WITH: Paul Auster; Chance of a Lifetime" , 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."
  • , playwright and director
  • Joan Bauer (born 1951), author of young adult fiction
  • Richard Bernstein (born 1944), journalist who writes the Letter from America column for The International Herald Tribune
  • (born 1959), author, journalist and television producerHamill, Denis. "He Wrote the Book on City Paranoia" , 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."
  • (born 1943), publicist and authorKleinman, Jacob. "The Park Slope man who saved Purple Rain!" , 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 "Q&A with Charles Blow" , , 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."
  • (born 1969), author of two books about her relationship with her transgender partnerBader, Eleanor J. "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."
  • (born 1969), writer and filmmaker
  • (born 1941), author on science and nutrition topics
  • (born 1950), writer of young adult and children's literature
  • (born 1975), author best known for his 2007 debut novel, Maynard and Jennica
  • (1946–2005), radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornographyLevy, Ariel. "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." , 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."
  • (born 1970), author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering GeniusEggers, Dave "My wish: Once Upon a School" , 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."
  • (born 1953), novelistScott, Janny. "The Brownstone Storytellers; A Colony of Writers Is Growing in Park Slope" , 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. "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" , 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."
  • , chef, journalist and cookbook author. "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rozanne-gold/thanksgiving-recipes_b_2169266.html" , 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."
  • (born 1969), novelist, author and magazine journalistStrauss, Darin. "Ben Greenman with Darin Strauss" , 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."
  • (1935–2020), journalist who was a columnist and editor for the New York Post and New York Daily News. "Brooklyn Revisited; The author returns home to find that everything, and nothing, has changed." , 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. "Eggs, Bacon and a Baseball Cap" , 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."
  • (born 1961), author
  • (born 1971), author, actor and humoristSalisbury, Vanita. "John Hodgman Enjoys Breathing" , New York (magazine), November 14, 2012. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Name: John Hodgman; Age: 41; Neighborhood: Park Slope"
  • (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/ "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), author. "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."
  • (1929–2021), writer
  • , chick lit author and journalist "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."
  • (born 1965), novelist and journalistCardace, Sara. "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."
  • (born 1974), author of Man Walks Into a Room, The History of Love and Great HouseSmith, Dinitia. "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."
  • (born 1967), author whose story collection Interpreter of Maladies (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for FictionVitale, Tom. "Transplanted Author Finds Roots in Writing" , 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."
  • (born 1964), novelist
  • Clifford J. LevyLevy, Clifford J. "My Family's Experiment in Extreme Schooling." The New York Times. September 15, 2011. 1 . Retrieved on May 21, 2012.
  • Laura Jean Libbey (1862-1924), author of De Vries, Susan. "Park Slope Brownstone With Built-ins, Mantels Returns With Price Chop to $5.4 Million", , 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
  • , actress and authorSilvestri, Pamela. "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."
  • (born 1961), novelist. "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. "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." , 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."
  • (born 1977), playwright, author and television writer "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
  • (born 1963), writer and criminal lawyerLee, Jennifer 8. "Park Slope Is Abuzz About a Missing Maple" , 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."
  • (stage name Amateur Gourmet), food and humor writerRoberts, Adam. "Let Them Eat Cake (Why Junk Food Is OK For Kids, In Moderation)", , 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."
  • , writerCurtis, Lisa J. "Trashy Tale", , 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."
  • (born 1954), writer and critic
  • (born 1966), illustrator and writer
  • (born 1954), children's writerRich, Motoko. "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."
  • , writer and filmmaker "Brooklyn Vigil", , 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."
  • (born 1948), children's writer
  • , author, columnist and screenwriter
  • (born 1944), magazine editor
  • (born 1970), writer
  • (born 1966), author, blogger and entrepreneur
  • Elisabeth Vincentelli, French-born arts and culture journalist
  • (1981–2013), novelist
  • Brian Wood (born 1972), comic book creator
  • Jacqueline Woodson (born 1963), writer
  • William Upski Wimsatt (born 1972), author and political activist

Politicians
  • (born 1942), former New York state senator and New York City Council presidentRichardson, Lynda. "A Forceful Voice for the Children of the Tsunami" , 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.
  • (1919–2011), former governor of New York and U.S. representativeLovett, Kenneth. "Gov. Hugh Carey, who bailed out New York City during troubled 1970s, dead at 92" , 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
  • Bill de Blasio (born 1961), former New York City mayorFoggatt, Tyler. "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." , 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
  • , diplomat
  • William Jay Gaynor, former New York City mayor
  • , journalist
  • , New York City Council member
  • , former New York state senator and Brooklyn borough president
  • , writer and activist, married to Bill de Blasio
  • (born 1986), U.S. representative from 2019 to 2021Glueck, Katie. "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."
  • , attorney and chief spokesman for the Straphangers CampaignGootman, Elissa. "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."
  • , U.S. senator, former U.S. representative
  • , former U.S. representative

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