Park Slope, Brooklyn - Definition and Overview

Park Slope is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, roughly bounded by Fourth Avenue, Prospect Park West, Flatbush Avenue, and 16th Street. It takes its name from being on the western slope of neighboring Prospect Park.

Partly as a result of inflated Manhattan rents along with an inflated (dot-com) economy, people who might otherwise have lived in Manhattan began moving to Brooklyn in large numbers in the 1990s. 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. South Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, and Boerum Hill all became to some extent part of greater Park Slope.