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  Park Slope, Brooklyn (1)
The Park Slope District, centering about the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway, has been since the mid-nineteenth century Brooklyn's "Gold Coast." In the quiet streets off the plaza are rows of residences that rival the mansions on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue.
The park is the chief playground of Brooklyn, with picnic grounds, tennis courts, baseball diamonds, ponds, a zoo, a lagoon, parade grounds, bandstand, gravel walks, and broad driveways.
The lake curves around the southern edge of the park; boating in summer, ice skating in winter, attract many of the park's 75,000 weekly visitors On the north side of the lake is the miniature yacht boathouse, housing the sloops which dot the wide water front in mild weather.
www.brooklyn.net /neighborhoods/park_slope_01.html   (4637 words)

  
  New York Architecture Images- Park Slope, Brooklyn
The park is the chief playground of Brooklyn, with picnic grounds, tennis courts, baseball diamonds, ponds, a zoo, a lagoon, parade grounds, bandstand, gravel walks, and broad driveways.
The slope of Park Slope descends gradually from northeast to southwest, leading to the terminology North Slope (from Flatbush Avenue to Union Street), Center Slope (from the south side of Union Street to Fifth or Sixth Streets) and South Slope beyond that.
Park Slope Estates, with 38 condominium apartments in six buildings, was the first project of its kind in the area.
www.nyc-architecture.com /PS/PS.htm   (12064 words)

  
 Park Slope, Brooklyn
Park Slope is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, roughly bounded by Fourth Avenue, Prospect Park West, Flatbush Avenue, and 16th Street.
Hipsters tended to move to Williamsburg; yuppies tended to move to Park Slope.
The subsequent gentrification inspired real estate agents to be increasingly generous about the borders of Park Slope, not unlike the expansion of Williamsburg into Greenpoint or that of Fort Greene into Bedford-Stuyvesant.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/p/pa/park_slope__brooklyn.html   (155 words)

  
 Park Slope Brooklyn New York Real Estate-917-804-3198- Jeff Grandis- Assoc Real Estate Broker
Park Slope is home to diverse and ever changing community of residents who enjoy the neighborhoods unique history and architecture.
Neighborhood Boundaries: Park Slope: from 4th Avenue on the west to Prospect Park West on the east, from Flatbush Avenue on the north to 17th Street on the South.
Surrounding Brooklyn Neighborhoods: Park Slope is surrounded by the Prospect Heights to the East, Boro Park to the West, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens and Boerum Hill to the North West, Windsor Terrace to the South.
www.jeffgrandis.com /n-park_slope.php   (447 words)

  
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Park Slope is a domicile to diverse residents who are proud of their neighborhood's history and architecture.
North Slope is inhabited by wealthy upper middle class while South Slope is inhabited by immigrants from Puerto Rico, Latin America, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Ireland.
Park Slope is an ideal place to raise children's.
cityleases.com /spider/areadesc/newyork/Brooklyn/Parkslope.asp   (223 words)

  
 In Park Slope Brooklyn Shop Park Slope Brooklyn Guide 11215
Whether you are new to Park Slope Brooklyn or have lived here all of your life, you will find it a pure pleasure to search for all your service needs here.
We are requesting all of Park Slope Brooklyn Businesses to establish their presence in our Online Park Slope Brooklyn Community Network Directory.
Brooklyn Shopping is always better when you know where to go.
www.parkslopebrooklyn.com   (467 words)

  
 CONGREGATION B'NAI JACOB of Park Slope
The new Greater Park Slope eruv includes Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Prospect Heights, the Botanic Gardens, Eastern Parkway west of Washington Avenue and Grand Army Plaza.
The Park Slope portion is bound by the Prospect Exp. on the South; 4th Ave.
Those portions of the park which are part of the original eruv remain within the eruv.
www.parkslopeshul.org /eruv.html   (492 words)

  
 New York Apartment - Alcove Studio in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Once used as Brooklyn's public park, on the highest point in Brooklyn is the nearby Greenwood Cemetery.
The Fort Greene/Clinton Hill areas are some of Brooklyn's fastest developing neighborhoods because of their unique accessibility to the surrounding areas and desirable selection of apartments that can be found.
Park Slope is located southeast of downtown Manhattan and is often accessed by the F train.
www.nyhabitat.com /new-york-apartment/furnished/6668   (652 words)

  
 Curbed: Brooklyn: Park Slope & Beyond Archives
We already dealt with Leviev Boymelgreen's Novo Park Slope once this week, but its website is now up and the marketing campaign is worth noting.
The building’s proximity to JJ Byrne Memorial Park offers not only wide open views, but also provides convenient access to extras such as a playground, a dog run and basketball courts.
Well, Set Speed points out that the marketers of said condos, who are resorting to some interesting tactics, have posted some vids on the YouTube of their efforts and a flickr photoset.
www.curbed.com /archives/categories/brooklyn_park_slope_beyond.php   (818 words)

  
 Brooklyn Real Estate, Brooklyn Broker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Developed after the completion of Brooklyn's Prospect Park in the 1870s, Park Slope is primarily residential eal estate, with countless row houses and apartment buildings - the neighborhood is divided into three smaller communities - North Slope, Center Slope and South Slope.
Sunset Park is located in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City.
Today, the Brooklyn neighborhood is a mix of friendly, community-minded people - and favored as an ideal place to live and raise a family.
www.maximus-realty.com /brooklynrealestate.htm   (577 words)

  
 Brooklyn Real Estate in Park Slope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Developed after the completion of Prospect Park in the 1870s, Park Slope is primarily residential, with countless row houses and apartment buildings - the neighborhood is divided into three smaller communities - North Slope, Center Slope and South Slope.
The population is typically young professionals attracted by the proximity to Manhattan and the low cost of housing.
Seventh Avenue was once the outermost border of desirable Park Slope, but of late the boundary has reached Fifth.
www.maximus-realty.com /parksloperealestate.htm   (138 words)

  
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It was a valid point, and I found myself a little ashamed to admit that well, yeah, I lived in Park Slope, land of Volvos with Sierra Club bumper stickers and lesbians pushing double-wide designer strollers.
If by “Brooklyn,” you mean the Brooklyn of movies and cartoons, of heavy accents and wife-beaters (the shirts and the men), then no, Park Slope may not fit in very well.
Given that the same changes that started hitting Park Slope around 1990 will, before too long, be hitting most every other neighborhood in Brooklyn as well (look at Coney), perhaps the question should be changed.
www.nypress.com /19/3/brooklyn/brooklyn3.cfm   (1478 words)

  
 DAILY SLOPE | Park Slope Neighborhood, Brooklyn, NY
There seems to be a disproportionately high number of Minnesota expats in the area, at least judging from the chatter on the Park Slope Message Board.
Amidst rumors that the Pavilion Park Slope theater (on Prospect Park West) is closing, seven24 writes in the Park Slope Message Boards: "In 1996 the day the Pavilion opened, I began working the concession stand.
I am moving my family to Park Slope (near the Union street train station on 4th ave) in a month and was wondering what the best way to get from JFK to PS would be.
www.dailyslope.com /random   (3845 words)

  
 Park Slope North Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Victorian brownstones give Park Slope its character, and great schools (both public and private) are especially attractive to young families.
Dogwalkers will appreciate the park's dog level drinking fountains, as well as the most liberal off-leash hours in the entire city.
They used to say "if it don't slope, it's not the Slope." Any street, a block or two North, East or West of the Gowanus Canal, generally qualifies as Gowanus - the character basically industrial, sprinkled with quaint residences.
www.smalltownbrooklyn.com /parkslopeN/PslopeNhome.html   (379 words)

  
 Curbed: Brooklyn: Park Slope & Beyond Archives
The project would sit on the site of a municipal parking lot at 16th Street and Fifth Avenue in the shadow of some of the new condos going up and it would include 50 apartments, about half for formerly homeless adults.
At least one Park Slope resident, Steve Berlin Johnson, tries to tackle the Brooklyn/Park Slope baby issue from an urban planning perspective with an item on babble.com about kids and urban life.
After we moved to Brooklyn, I started to think that maybe there was something even better than the pedestrian-centric city: the stroller-centric city.
curbed.com /archives/categories/brooklyn_park_slope_beyond.php?page=3   (951 words)

  
 Park Slope United Methodist Church : Welcome
Hand in Hand, we the people of Park Slope United Methodist Church - fl and white, straight and gay, old and young, rich and poor - unite as a loving community in covenant with God and the Creation.
Park Slope United Methodist Church is a diverse, vibrant and growing congregation in Brooklyn, New York.
Located in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York City, PSUMC is easy to reach by subway, bus or car.
www.parkslopeumc.org /index.html   (391 words)

  
 Park Slope has a little bit of everything - AM New York
Its mommy-and-me neighborhood reputation long in the past, Park Slope has a bar scene for the cool and not-cool kids alike these days.
No good Park Sloper would dare skimp on summer's eves outside at the Gate, nor would they want to deny themselves a fine winter's ale with a twist of pumpkin on a not-quite-wintry-winter- 2007 night.
Not only does it have free bocce courts (de rigeur for Brooklyn, it seems) it has the correct environment in which to hold taxidermy classes (which it does) and scientific lectures (got those, too).
www.amny.com /entertainment/dining/am-nightlife011207,0,5937590.story   (758 words)

  
 Park Slope - New York City Neighborhood - Brooklyn - NYC
Prospect Park is a main attraction, housing a plethora of facilities including a zoo, ice-skating rink, boathouse and band shell.
As the families that fed the area’s nineties boom—many of them Upper West Side transplants—continue to dominate the area around the park, younger and artier refugees have settled near Fifth Avenue.
The sixteen-story Shinnecock luxury condos at Union Street, near Prospect Park, opened in 2002 and were the first new prime Slope development in decades.
nymag.com /realestate/articles/neighborhoods/parkslope.htm   (759 words)

  
 Subscribe to other Brooklyn Neighborhood Yahoo Groups   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This group is an offshoot of Park Slope Parents and is designed to specifically focus on issues related to raising children as a single parent in the Park Slope, Brooklyn Area.
We are trying to start a center for Park Slope parents caregivers, possibly using the model of the National Association of Mothers' Centers.
Many of us are also members of Park Slope Parents, but find that we need a place to discuss issues specific to living in Kensington and the southern part of Windsor Terrace.
www.parkslopeparents.com /community/About/groups/default.aspx   (1255 words)

  
 SLOPE SPORTS :: HIGH PERFORMANCE ATHLETIC GEAR :: BROOKLYN :: PARK SLOPE
Slope Sports is a specialty store committed to providing the best products to runners, walkers, cyclists and outdoor enthusiasts in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
We at Slope Sports strive to put our customers in the highest-quality technical footwear and apparel, based on their personal needs.
With over 20 years experience of competition at elite amateur level, Haig is currently a category 2 cyclist and captain of Deno's Wonder Wheel team, a premier New York City cycling team.
www.slopesports.com /aboutus.html   (355 words)

  
 Best Park slope Brooklyn car service in Park Slope Brooklyn is Evelyn car service
Evelyn's Park Slope Brooklyn car service is continually upgrading the knowledge base of their employees in order to facilitate the most efficient services.
This Park Slope Brooklyn Car service in Park slope Brooklyn also has a limousine service which is also available 24 hours a day.
Evelyn's Park Slope Car Service in Park Slope Brooklyn is the only car service in Brooklyn you will ever need.
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 The South Brooklyn Network -- Park Slope
Park Slope is nestled within the downward slope from Prospect Park to the Gowanus Canal.
The 526-acre Prospect Park stands as one of the true jewels of New York City, designed by the same men responsible for Manhattan's Central Park.
At its center, facing the entrance to the park, is the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch, a colossal granite arch designed by John H. Duncan, architect of Grant's Tomb.
www.southbrooklyn.net /p_slope.html   (439 words)

  
 DAILY SLOPE | Park Slope Neighborhood, Brooklyn, NY
The boyfriend will be coming with me to the park from now on just in case she wants to get frisky with me again.
Park Slope, when she was living on 13th st. between 7th and 8th Ave.
According to the Brooklyn Papers, this woman (Pat Maliha, a Windsor Terrace preservationist) was “nearly decapitated” last week from a 36-inch piece of glass falling from everyone’s favorite Park Slope eyesore: the 10,000-square-foot brownstone on 7th Ave.
dailyslope.com   (4759 words)

  
 Park Slope Books - Brooklyn, NY - Judy's Book
I suggest that everyone in the neighborhood stop here when you are looking to browse and find something random to read for cheap.
Park Slope Books has a nice selection of used books, though (as with many/most used bookstores) you are likely to have more luck just browsing rather than hunting for something specific.
It is not as crowded as some of the used bookstores in Manhattan, and has a wonderful old-school bookshop vibe.
www.judysbook.com /cities/brooklyn-ny/Books/77305/p1/Park_Slope_Books.htm   (287 words)

  
 Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York Real Estate - Trulia
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View our Brooklyn real estate guide to see average listing prices, sale prices and information for local school districts.
www.trulia.com /NY/Brooklyn,5202,Park_Slope   (675 words)

  
 Park Slope - AOL Music
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