Park Slope

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Park Slope runs between Fourth Avenue and Prospect Park West, from Flatbush Avenue south to 15th Street, along the western side of Prospect Park.

  • 0.93 square miles
  • 57,405 residents, 2020 Census
  • 169 street corners
  • 6 subway stations
  • 10 bus routes

The name describes ground that falls from Mount Prospect toward Gowanus Bay next to the 585-acre park, begun in 1866 and opened to the public in 1871. Once large-scale building got under way in the late 1870s and early 1880s, mansions rose on Prospect Park West, Eighth Avenue and Plaza Street while row houses, brownstones among them, filled the side streets, and the Park Slope Historic District, designated in 1973, keeps a cohesive feel thanks to its tree-lined streets and intact architecture.

Sources: Park Slope Historic District Extension Designation Report (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); The Crown Jewel of Brooklyn (Museum of the City of New York).

Map

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Park Slope borders six areas, and 5th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 32 of 169.

Street map of Park Slope, Brooklyn, outlined among Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Prospect Park, Prospect Heights and Windsor Terrace-South Slope, with its six subway stations and Grand Army Plaza.Fort GreeneDowntown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum HillProspect HeightsProspect ParkWindsor Terrace-South SlopeCarroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook
  • Park Slope
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr lines 2 3 4 5 D N R accessible
  • Bergen St lines 2 3
  • Union St lines R
  • Grand Army Plaza lines 2 3
  • 4 Av-9 St lines R
  • 7 Av lines F G accessible

Getting around

Six subway stations and buses on ten routes stop in or at the edge of Park Slope.

  • 6 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 10 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B37
  • B41
  • B45
  • B61
  • B63
  • B65
  • B67
  • B69
  • B103
  • B116

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 1,823 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 10.8 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 6 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 83 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
76
Accessible pedestrian signals
16
Turn calming
8
Safety Improvement Projects
6
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
4

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 1,579 red-light camera tickets at two corners
  • 30,883 school-zone speed camera tickets at eight corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Flatbush Avenue & Bergen Street, 1,121
Most speed tickets
Prospect Park West & 2nd Street, 11,158

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 57,405 residents in Park Slope, about 61,700 per square mile.

  • 27,020 homes, 2020 Census
  • 2,604 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 6,464 residential lots hold buildings from 1901 or earlier, and 96% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
18.9 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Grand Army Plaza (12.5 acres), Washington Park (3.3 acres) and Washington Skate Park (1.5 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch, Public School 39, the Brooklyn Public Library's Park Slope Branch and the Public Bath No. 7, among others
Historic district
Park Slope Historic District, wholly or partly within Park Slope

Streets and trees

Trees
5,173 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
5th Avenue, with 32 of the area's 169
Height above sea level
From 17 feet at 4th Avenue & Carroll Street to 164 feet at Prospect Park West & 7th Street
Honorary street names
6 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 18 schools and two libraries in Park Slope.

Public schools
15
Charter and private schools
3
Libraries
Pacific Library and Park Slope Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 26 bike-share stations stand in Park Slope. The City's public art inventory lists 11 works in the area, among them Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch (1892), General Gouverneur Kemble Warren (1896) and Quadriga: the Triumphal Progress of Columbia (1898).

  • 26 bike-share stations
  • 11 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 319 major felonies at places in Park Slope.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Park Slope

  • 394 major felonies in 2024 75 fewer in 2025
  • 1,006 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Park Slope, the NYPD recorded another 206 major felonies.

Map of Park Slope: 13 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Park Slope, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Park Slope, most about 1,000 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Park Slope are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Park Slope and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
78th
Major felonies recorded at places in Park Slope, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 137 major felonies at places in Park Slope, against 162 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.