Park Slope - One of the 10 best neighborhoods in the US

jamzer

This is according to the American Planning Association. Click on the link to read all about it. http://www.planning.org/greatplaces/neighborhoods/parkslope.htm

restless native

Subject: Re: Park Slope - One of the 10 best neighborhoods in the US

Jamzer wrote: This is according to the American Planning Association. Click on the link to read all about it. http://www.planning.org/greatplaces/neighborhoods/parkslope.htm

Funny how all the article talks about is the park and the architecture - how about the people? Not much to tout there, huh.

Also love how it applauds the 'pioneers' who 'moved in' despite the white flight. How about the families that held down the fort and refused to leave, despite getting cars stolen, apartments burglarized, buildings vandalized? Just a bunch of dumb townies I guess. :roll:

8thandprez

God, I hope this news doesn't prop up the real estate market any longer. I need an apartment.

armchair_warrior

locale news on tv only feature harlem's 125th st. i was surprise they didn't show park slope as the best nabe in the country. oh wells but its a cool place hehe.

belzjm

some added text from gowanus lounge...


"No neighborhood in America has a finer and more intact collection of late 19th-century row houses than Park Slope," notes architectural historian and Columbia University professor Andrew Dolkart. "Block after block is virtually unaltered, with houses ranging from grand townhouses designed by Brooklyn's leading architects, to long rows of vernacular speculator-built housing designed by the obscure architects who provided character to so many urban neighborhoods."

Park Slope has a little bit of everything: stately brownstones, attractive apartment buildings, a farmer's market, independently owned businesses, transit, an adjoining park, and active residents, some of whom moved to the area as urban homesteaders when it was being abandoned in the 1960s...Historic in design and modern in amenity, the livability of Brooklyn's Park Slope is no hyperbole. Its architectural, recreational, transportation, and community assets all combine to make it a great community of lasting value.

caaahyoko

Cool. My favorite hang out area from my teen years is on great streets in the US.

http://www.planning.org/greatplaces/streets/delmarloop.htm