Windsor Terrace-South Slope

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Between Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery, this area pairs Windsor Terrace with the South Slope, the blocks running south from 15th Street to Green-Wood.

  • 0.55 square miles
  • 23,622 residents, 2020 Census
  • 125 street corners
  • 3 subway stations
  • 9 bus routes

Windsor Terrace began in 1849, when a developer bought the Vanderbilt farm for a suburban enclave and named it for Windsor, the English town known for its castle; it had about 150 houses by 1890 and drew many Irish immigrants after the Civil War. The South Slope grew in the late 1800s and early 1900s as housing for workers on the Sunset Park waterfront, along the Gowanus Canal and at Green-Wood, and its streets are still defined by two- to four-story rowhouses.

Sources: Firehouse, Engine Company 40/ Hook & Ladder Company 21 (now Engine Company 240/ Battalion 48) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); How Windsor Terrace got its name (Brooklyn Daily Eagle); South Park Slope Rezoning - Approved! (NYC Department of City Planning).

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Windsor Terrace-South Slope borders six areas, and Prospect Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 19 of 125.

Street map of Windsor Terrace-South Slope, Brooklyn, outlined among Prospect Park, Green-Wood Cemetery, Park Slope and Sunset Park (West), with its three subway stations and Greenwood Playground.Prospect ParkKensingtonPark SlopeSunset Park (West)Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Prospect Av lines R
  • 15 St-Prospect Park lines F G
  • Fort Hamilton Pkwy lines F G

Getting around

Three subway stations and buses on nine routes stop in or at the edge of Windsor Terrace-South Slope.

  • 3 subway stations
  • 7 local bus routes
  • 2 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B16
  • B61
  • B63
  • B67
  • B68
  • B69
  • B103

Express bus routes

  • BM3
  • BM4

Safety record

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

  • 617 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 4.9 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 21 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 32 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
22
Accessible pedestrian signals
11
Safety Improvement Projects
4
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
3
Enhanced crossings
2
Turn calming
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 7,895 red-light camera tickets at two corners
  • 11,268 school-zone speed camera tickets at nine corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
McDonald Avenue & Vanderbilt Street, 7,720
Most speed tickets
McDonald Avenue & Greenwood Avenue, 4,572

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 23,622 residents in Windsor Terrace-South Slope, about 42,900 per square mile.

  • 10,752 homes, 2020 Census
  • 1,265 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,157 residential lots hold buildings from 1910 or earlier, and 90% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
9.7 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Greenwood Playground (3.2 acres), Detective Joseph Mayrose Park (1.4 acres) and Machate Circle (1.4 acres)
Designated landmark
The Firehouse, Engine Company 40 and Hook & Ladder Company 21

Streets and trees

Trees
2,694 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and Callery pear
Street with the most corners
Prospect Avenue, with 19 of the area's 125
Height above sea level
From 49 feet at East 7th Street & Kermit Place to 181 feet at Prospect Park West & 18th Street
Honorary street names
2 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists ten schools and one library in Windsor Terrace-South Slope.

Public schools
6
Charter and private schools
4
Library
Windsor Terrace Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 12 bike-share stations stand in Windsor Terrace-South Slope. The City's public art inventory lists one work in the area: Sixty First District Memorial (1922).

  • 12 bike-share stations
  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 96 major felonies at places in Windsor Terrace-South Slope.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Windsor Terrace-South Slope

  • 84 major felonies in 2024
  • 278 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Windsor Terrace-South Slope, the NYPD recorded another 36 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 5.6 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Windsor Terrace-South Slope.

Police precinct
72nd
Major felonies recorded at places in Windsor Terrace-South Slope, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 37 major felonies at places in Windsor Terrace-South Slope, against 46 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.