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Park Slope, New York City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Park Slope climbs from Fourth Avenue to Prospect Park, a Brooklyn neighborhood of brownstone side streets and two long shopping avenues.
About Park Slope
Where to stay in Park Slope
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
Seventh Avenue is the spine. North Slope sits closest to the Brooklyn Museum and to Flatbush Avenue, which forms the neighborhood's northern boundary, while the brownstone side streets behind it stay quiet and low. Center Slope keeps the shops of Seventh Avenue within reach of Prospect Park.
South Slope runs down toward the Prospect Expressway, further from the museums, with Fifth Avenue carrying most of its restaurants and bars. If you want brownstone streets and a park gate at the end of the block, this is the part of Brooklyn for it.
About Park Slope
What are the main landmarks in Park Slope?
The Brooklyn Museum anchors the northern end. The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art and the Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives both belong to it, and Prospect Park Zoo with the Lefferts Historic House stand across the park boundary. Deeper history sits alongside them.
The Old Stone House keeps an earlier layer of Brooklyn in view, the Dongan Oak Monument marks a spot in Prospect Park, and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts and the Lesbian Herstory Archives hold collections of their own. Church towers punctuate the avenues.
What is the history of Park Slope?
The name is literal. Park Slope takes it from the western slope of neighboring Prospect Park, and the east-west side streets that climb it were built up with brownstones and apartment buildings that still set the scale. It belongs to the older area called South Brooklyn.
The William B. Cronyn House survives from that earlier building era, while the Alfred T. White Memorial and the Henry W. Maxwell Memorial record names attached to the park and its surroundings.
Where is Park Slope?
Prospect Park and Prospect Park West edge it to the east, Fourth Avenue to the west, Flatbush Avenue to the north, and the Prospect Expressway to the south.
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Updated September 2026