Park Slope

Brooklyn

Park Slope runs along the western edge of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, a residential neighborhood of brownstone rows and tree-lined streets. Housing is dominated by nineteenth-century townhouses and the apartments carved from them, with a smaller supply of prewar and new buildings on the avenues. It is one of Brooklyn's most established and consistently residential neighborhoods.

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The Lay Of The Land

Park Slope descends from Prospect Park West toward Fourth Avenue, a long grid of brownstone blocks named for the gentle hill it sits on. The side streets hold some of the best-preserved nineteenth-century rowhouse architecture in Brooklyn, while Seventh and Fifth Avenues carry the commercial life, and the result is a calm, walkable neighborhood organized around the park at its eastern edge. The scale is low and the streets are green.

The housing is townhouse and the apartments within it. Most of the supply is floor-throughs, garden units, and upper-floor apartments carved from brownstones and limestones, with larger co-ops and a layer of new development along Fourth Avenue and the park. Layouts tend toward real bedrooms and prewar detail, and prices reflect the neighborhood's long-standing desirability.

Transit covers the area from several directions. The F and G run under Seventh Avenue and Smith and Ninth, the R follows Fourth Avenue, and the 2, 3, B, and Q stop at the northern end near Grand Army Plaza, so most blocks reach Manhattan within a reasonable ride. The express options at Atlantic add reach.

Prospect Park, the farmers market at Grand Army Plaza, and the restaurants and shops of Fifth and Seventh Avenues anchor daily life. Park Slope suits someone who wants brownstone character, real space, and a park at the end of the block, and who prefers a settled residential neighborhood to a nightlife-driven one.

Market Pulse

What renting in Park Slope looks like right now, from listings active on Sidewalk.

Median asking rent$5,388/modown $334 vs Oct 2026
Active listings20on Sidewalk today
Days on market29median, listings leaving in the last 90 days
Studio$4,100/mo median1 BR$4,848/mo median2 BR$6,150/mo median3 BR$8,950/mo median4+ BR$6,400/mo median
Median asking rent by bedroom, Jun to NovEach month, the median of what listings on the market that month were asking, from their price history on Sidewalk.
$0$2k$4k$6k$8k$10kJunJulAugSepOctNov
  • Studio$4,100/mo
  • 1 BR$4,400/mo
  • 2 BR$6,000/mo
  • 3+ BR$9,225/mo
  • Hollow: fewer than 5 listings that month

Asking rents among listings active on Sidewalk, updated November 14.

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