Park Slope is many different neighborhoods in one - diverse music options that bring hipster kids from Williamsburg and people from all over the burroughs. Prospect Park is the people's park, with a welcoming feel and a place where it's clear people from all the half dozen distinct neighborhoods that ring the park come together, enjoy the outdoors, and mix. Chains of any sort are hard to find, and if you like walking, there's no better area for exploring and being surprised with what you find.

Park Slope is a family neighborhood. In summers there's always one block cordoned off for a neighorhood street party and BBQ. You feel safe, relaxed, and at home. The traditional flickering gas lamps in front of many residences remain; fireflies and sounds of children remind you that this the real experience of living in New York; and the area's many advantages - excellent restaurants, quirky shopping boulevards, central proximity to multiple subway lines, and adjacent favorite neighborhoods of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights, Gowanus and Red Hook - all help explain why the women of "Sex and the City" wound up here in the end!

Park Slope is many different neighborhoods in one - diverse music options that bring hipster kids from Williamsburg and people from all over the burroughs. Prospect Park is the people's park, with a welcoming feel and a place where it's clear people from all the half dozen distinct neighborhoods that ring the park come together, enjoy the outdoors, and mix. Chains of any sort are hard to find, and if you like walking, there's no better area for exploring and being surprised with what you find. Park Slope is a family neighborhood. In summers there's always one block cordoned off for a neighorhood street party and BBQ. You feel safe, relaxed, and at home. The traditional flickering gas lamps in front of many residences remain; fireflies and sounds of children remind you that this the real experience of living in New York; and the area's many advantages - excellent restaurants, quirky shopping boulevards, central proximity to multiple subway lines, and adjacent favorite neighborhoods of C

Located squarely in the middle of beautiful, historic brownstone Brooklyn, in Park Slope (the literary center of Brooklyn and named because of its gentle sloping from Prospect Park (designed by Olmsted, like Central Park)), you'll have a truly local experience. Few tourists are seen but always welcomed, this is a real neighborhood with elements of its older "Berkeley vibe" past, and adjacent to other charming neighborhoods. Stay where New Yorkers live, not work!

Since this is a self-managed, historic/classic 4 story brownstone (meaning not big and consideration to neighbors is important), this is not a place for partying, or other disruptive, noisy, or rude behavior. Neighbors have toddlers.

Center in Park Slope Proper, the apartment is equally close to the four main stops, giving lots of flexibility. 10 minutes & $7 from the Navy Yard (and much of BK shy of Bay Ridge (south) and Williamsburg (north) by hired car.

Get up early enough, hit the YMCA gym a few blocks away around 7 am, and odds are high you'll bump into (or deliberately give a wide birth to) hizzoner our great mayor exercising at the same modest place as always, along with throngs of kids learning to swim or kung fu. A Park Slope local, it's clear he loves every chance he gets to come back. Otherwise, you get what you get in the city, but w/o the crowds, mostly just locals. During summer, it's the perfect doorway to Coney Island, and just a little further along, Little Moscow and then the ultra trendy but still mellow new destination surf scene in the Rockaways. Experience real ethnic neighborhoods if you want some variety - just be prepared to be the only one at the nightclub not speaking Ukrainian. Stay where normal New Yorkers live - not where they work. Steven Buscemi and other low-profile celebs live here too, but as neighbors trying to be norms like the rest of us :). No Trump types, no mystery zillionaire buildings here. If