Place
Park Slope
Also known as: Park Slope, Brooklyn
A historic brownstone neighborhood in western Brooklyn, between Prospect Park and the Gowanus Canal. Defined by the late-19th-century brownstone-row residential fabric, the western edge of Olmsted-and-Vaux's Prospect Park, and one of the most concentrated independent-business commercial corridors in NYC along Seventh Avenue and Fifth Avenue. Home of the Park Slope Food Coop — the largest single-store food cooperative in the United States since 1973.
What this is
Park Slope sits between the Gowanus Canal and the western edge of Prospect Park, with the brownstone residential blocks running south from Flatbush Avenue along Seventh Avenue and the surrounding cross-streets. The neighborhood holds the longest-running and largest single-store [[food-cooperative|food cooperative]] in the U.S. — a member-owned institution operating continuously since 1973, with ~17,000 members as of 2025.
Listings in Park Slope
- [[park-slope-food-coop]] — largest single-store food cooperative in the U.S., 782 Union Street, since 1973
Bioregional context
Files under [[brooklyn]] and through it [[new-york-city]].
See also
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- Member of: [[place]]
- Contained by: [[brooklyn]]
- Contains: [[park-slope-food-coop]]
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Practical
contained by
- Park Slope Food Coop 782 Union Street — owned since 1980; the institution defines the neighborhood
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