Park Slope
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Park Slope is a neighborhood in south Brooklyn bound by Flatbush Avenue and 15th Street and Prospect Park and Fourth Avenue. Seventh and Fifth Avenue is where you’ll find most of its stores and restaurants, the other blocks house the lovely brownstones that makes this neighborhood so memorable. Park Slope’s rich history and architectural prosperity has made it one of the most consistently desirable neighborhoods in America since its colonization in the 17 century.
The area of Park Slope was inhabited by the Lenape people until their Dutch colonization in the 1600s. The Dutch used the land for farming for the next 200 years. During the Revolutionary Way a major battle was fought in the site and began the Battle of Long Island, or the Battle of Brooklyn—which was the first pitched battle between the British and Continental Army under the command of George Washington. This historical site is preserved at the north entrance of Prospect Park at Grand Army Plaza with the Soldier’s and the Sailor’s Arch.
With the advent of the streetcar, this neighborhood turned high end and Victorian mansions were built along Prospect Park with views of this historic park. Today these mansions are luxury apartments for the eclectic residents of Park Slope. The architectural details of the Victorian era are one of Park Slope’s signatures of its elegant neighborhood.
Like most neighborhoods, Park Slope faced a decline in the 1950s when residents moved to the suburbs making Park Slope a working class neighborhood of mostly Italian and Irish residents. Black and Latino residents moving in the 1960s and 1970s.
Around this same time, artists and hippies moved in, buying and renovating brownstones. In 1973 the area was recognized as a landmark district and gentrification was at full steam ahead. This recent gentrification and historical acknowledgement has continued making the Park Slope of today one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in America.
With gentrification came the pressure on the working class immigrant families to move out who had been living in Park Slope before the gentrification (and rents) went high. Some found protection under rent stabilization. Many family owned bookstores and coffee shops closed when Barnes & Noble and Starbucks opened their doors in the neighborhood.
Notable residents include Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julia Stiles, Pete Hammill and Alex Grey.
