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Park Slope

Park Slope is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, within an area known as South Brooklyn.

Park Slope
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The place

Park Slope is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, within an area known as South Brooklyn. Park Slope is roughly bounded by Prospect Park and Prospect Park West to the east, Fourth Avenue to the west, Flatbush Avenue to the north, and Prospect Expressway to the south. Generally, the neighborhood is divided into three sections from north to south: North Slope, Center Slope, and South Slope. The neighborhood takes its name from its location on the western slope of neighboring Prospect Park. Fifth Avenue and Seventh Avenue are its primary commercial streets, while its east–west side streets are lined with brownstones and apartment buildings.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Park Slope

Airports
LaGuardia (LGA), 15 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 16 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 17 km
  • Philadelphia → Park Slope
    128 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · $12–17
  • Hartford → Park Slope
    163 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · $15–21
  • Albany → Park Slope
    221 km · quickest by road, 4h 3m · $20–27
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Park Slope

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Park Slope. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe [http://www.nywatertaxi.com Water Taxi, at Fulton Ferry Landing, provides service from various points in Manhattan along the East River.
  • Get inThe Water Taxi has service between southern Manhattan and Red Hook, often used by customers of the Red Hook Ikea.

From Wikivoyage: Brooklyn, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    70 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    565 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,630 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,636 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,761 km

If you know how people move in Park Slope – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Park Slope

Park Slope is 3 km from Brooklyn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.