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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.
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  Park Slope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Park Slope is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, USA, roughly bounded by Fourth Avenue, Prospect Park West (Ninth Avenue), Flatbush Avenue, and Fifteenth Street.
Park Slope is considered a cultural center of Brooklyn with its many historic buildings, hip restaurants, bars, and retail stores, as well as close access to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, and the Brooklyn Museum.
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.
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 Prospect Park (Brooklyn) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prospect Park is a 526 acre (2.1 km²) public park in Brooklyn, New York located between Park Slope, Kensington, Windsor Terrace and Flatbush Avenue, Grand Army Plaza and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and seven blocks north east of Green-Wood Cemetery.
As the Park decayed, this historically significant structure was in peril of destruction; luckily, the Boathouse was saved in the 1980s by the then New York Mayor Edward Koch and has been completely restored and refurbished; now housing the Audubon Society's only urban interpretive center in the United States.
The other side argues that the park is designed to be a haven from the type of city stress that automobiles represent, and that having them use the park sacrifices the safety of those using the park for recreation.
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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.
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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 rents ranges from $1000 to $3300 based on the size of the apartments.
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 PARK SLOPE PLAYGROUND - Historical Sign
Park Slope is bounded by Prospect Park to the east, Fourth Avenue to the west, Flatbush Avenue to the north, and Green-Wood Cemetery to the south.
Park Slope’s bucolic period ended in the 1870s, when horse-drawn rail carts began running to the park, and rich New Yorkers gravitated to its urban, but still peaceful, streets.
Culturally, Park Slope is one of the richest neighborhoods in the city.
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 Park Slope = Dyke Slope in New York -- Queer Lesbian Gay Travel -- Gay.com
Gay.com > Travel > Park Slope = Dyke Slope in New York -- By Eva Leonard If the Brooklyn neighborhood Park Slope were a relative, it would be your boho aunt who holds a fl belt in karate and wears her hair in one long braid.
By Eva Leonard If the Brooklyn neighborhood Park Slope were a relative, it would be your boho aunt who holds a fl belt in karate and wears her hair in one long braid.
If the Brooklyn neighborhood Park Slope were a relative, it would be your boho aunt who holds a fl belt in karate and wears her hair in one long braid.
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 Park Slope Reader: Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Park Slope traces its origins to the Wisconsin Glacier that once covered much of Eastern Canada and the Northeast United States.
Although a few houses were built in Park Slope before 1865, Litchfield and others hired architects to draw up street plans and began selling lots, with the hope of attracting upscale Manhattan residents to the new neighborhood, then known as Prospect Hill.
The Park Slope branch at 431 Sixth Avenue (718-832-1853) is used primarily by locals.
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 village voice > nyclife > Neighborhoods by Grace Cheung
Park Slope is an easy introduction to New York, a slice of Brooklyn where cats curl up on copy machines and young couples stroll arm in arm, bundled in scarves knitted for each other.
Boundaries: Flatbush Avenue to the north, Prospect Park on the east, 4th Avenue on the west, and 17th Street to the south.
Also visit the Park Slope Food Coop, the nation's largest member-run food cooperation, which is essential to understanding the organic and community mindset of Park Slope.
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 Brooklyn Community Board 6 (www.brooklyncb6.org): Neighborhoods
The Park Slope neighborhood is the largest in the district and contains more than half of its residential population.  It contains the borough’s largest historic district with some of the nation’s best examples of late nineteenth century Romanesque Revival, Queen Anne, and Renaissance Revival style brownstone rowhouses, mansions and institutions.
One of the largest institutional structures in Park Slope is the 14 th Regiment Armory located at 8 th Avenue between 14 th and 15 th Streets.  In 1996 control of the facility reverted from the State to the City when the NYS Division of Military and Naval Affairs withdrew its military presence.
Pursue implementation of reuse plans for the Park Slope Armory at 1402 Eighth Avenue for beneficial use by the community.
www.brooklyncb6.org /neighborhoods?a=detail&content_id=59   (592 words)

  
 Media - church! of Park Slope   (Site not responding. Last check: )
IN a Park Slope, Brooklyn, coffee shop one recent Tuesday, 2-year-old Olivia Wohlgemuth sat on a lime-green bean bag chair, listening raptly to a reading of "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" and nibbling fresh strawberries from a nearby platter.
Park Slope, known for its liberal bent, is now finding its tolerance tested in an unexpected way.
But some Park Slopers were taken aback after discovering that the church was financed in part by the Orchard Group, a nonprofit donor-driven organization that helps establish churches in what it describes as "resistant fields" in the Northeast.
www.churchofparkslope.org /media.html   (1099 words)

  
 Brooklyn Real Estate in Park Slope
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.
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 The South Brooklyn Network -- Park Slope
The communities of Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Gowanus, Red Hook, and Park Slope comprised the southern portion of the village of Breukelen - one of the six original Dutch villages that are now the borough of Brooklyn.
Park Slope is nestled within the downward slope from Prospect Park to the Gowanus Canal.
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.
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 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.
www.newyorkmetro.com /realestate/articles/neighborhoods/parkslope.htm   (705 words)

  
 Best Park slope Brooklyn car service in Park Slope Brooklyn is Evelyn car service
The goal of Evelyn's Park Slope Brooklyn Car Service in Brooklyn NY is to provide the best transportation service that is centered around our client's satisfaction.
Evelyn's Park Slope Brooklyn car service is continually upgrading the knowledge base of their employees in order to facilitate the most efficient services.
Evelyn's Park Slope Brooklyn car service in Park Slope Brooklyn is available when you are.
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 Park Slope North Homepage
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)

  
 Newcomers -- and old favorites -- on Park Slope's Restaurant Row -- Newsday.com
Fifth Avenue is food nirvana in the Slope, with a clutch of new restaurants taking their place among neighborhood favorites like Blue Ribbon and Al Di La. Here's a quick look at some of the places along the avenue that are worth a visit.
The crowd is typically Park Slope, with plenty of families interspersed among the couples.
Tempo is the brand-new replacement for Park Slope's venerable Cucina, which was one of the first building blocks of the borough's restaurant culture.
www.newsday.com /entertainment/nyc-parksloperest,0,3194366.story?coll=ny-entertainment-headlines   (896 words)

  
 South Park Slope - Department of City Planning
The rezoning area is generally bounded by 15th Street on the north, Fourth Avenue on the west, Prospect Park West on the east, and 24th Street and Green-Wood Cemetery on the south.
As market demand for housing within the desirable Park Slope neighborhood extends farther south, however, several out-of-scale nine to fourteen-story tower developments have been proposed that would be inconsistent with the neighborhood’s low-rise, rowhouse character.
The Department of City Planning certified the South Park Slope Uniform Land Use Review Procedure application on August 22nd, 2005.
www.nyc.gov /html/dcp/html/southparkslope/index.shtml   (379 words)

  
 SAVE THE ENDANGERED LESBIANS OF PARK SLOPE   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Once upon a time, in the glorious Lesbolithic Era, lesbians roamed their native habitat of Park Slope in great numbers.
The unique ecosystem of the slope, with its cheap rents, food co-op, and scattered bars and bistros, is perfectly suited the lesbian lifestyle.
Lesbian households are particularly vulnerable to economic changes in park slope.
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 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   (715 words)

  
 fifth avenue committee | brooklyn, ny
FAC has declared a "Displacement Free Zone" in lower Park Slope in response to an epidemic of evictions of longtime community residents whose rent was being doubled overnight.
Lower Park Slope has long been a diverse neighborhood with a broad mix of people of different races, ethnicities, and income levels.
The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment is $1,200 in Upper Park Slope and the mean rent in the Lower Slope is $465.
www.fifthave.org /Organizing/DFZProgram.htm   (1210 words)

  
 Park Slope Parents - Home
Your resource for raising children in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Focus is on South Slope to 6th Street.
Park Slope Civic Council's Photos taken against the Halloween 2007 backdrop.
www.parkslopeparents.com   (200 words)

  
 Welcome to the City of Monterey Park - Slope Drain Inspections
The hillside areas in Monterey Park pose the continued threat of hillside erosion during the rainy season.
The City then works with property owners to ensure that the slope drains are in proper condition to handle the upcoming rainy season.
Residents are strongly urged to make recommended repairs for the protection of their property and to minimize the possibility of mudslides.
www.ci.monterey-park.ca.us /home/index.asp?page=352   (161 words)

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