New York City’s Brooklyn is home to Park Slope, originally known as the South Bronx section of Brooklyn. Park Slope is bounded on the east by Prospect Park and Prospect Park West, on the west by Fourth Avenue, on the north by Flatbush Avenue, and on the south by the Prospect Expressway.
There is a “North Slope,” a “Middle Slope,” and a “South Slope” in New York City. The “named roads,” Flatbush Avenue and Garfield Place, are the “North Slope” and “Middle Slope,” respectively. The area’s name is derived from its location on the western slant of Prospect Park. There are brownstones and condos lining the east and west side streets of Midtown Manhattan, with Fifth Avenue and Seventh Avenue serving as the primary commercial thoroughfares.
Before Europeans came in the seventeenth century, the Lenape people lived on Park Slope. Ranches and woodlands occupied much of the area prior to the mid-nineteenth century, when the land was bundled into rectangular parcels. The western side of the neighborhood was heavily involved in nineteenth-century warfare due to its proximity to the current Gowanus Canal and other ships at the time.