South Slope, originally South Park Slope, is a neighborhood in

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, between Sunset Park/ Greenwood Heights to the south and

Park Slope Park Slope is a neighborhood in northwestern Brooklyn, New York City, within the area once 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 A ...

to the north. Because there are no official borders to neighborhoods in New York City, definitions of the boundaries of South Slope can differ significantly. Real estate listings in ''

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'', for instance, use 9th Street as the northern border, the Prospect Expressway as the southern border, with Fourth Avenue the boundary of the west and Prospect Park West and 8th Avenue to the east. Other definitions use 15th Street on the north and 24th Street to the south. While the name "South Slope" has been used for many years, the area was officially designated "South Park Slope" when it was rezoned by the

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in 2005. It is primarily made up of pre-war row houses, although there has been a spate of new, non-contextual construction in recent years predominantly in the inner blocks with higher density development along 4th Avenue due to the 2005 R8A

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designation. South Slope is a part of Brooklyn Community District 7 along with Greenwood Heights,

Windsor Terrace Windsor Terrace is a small residential neighborhood in the central part of the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Prospect Park on the east and northeast, Park Slope at Prospect ...

and Sunset Park.

LGBT community

One of the areas with a significant gay population in NYC, it hosts the famous Lesbian Herstory Archives that contain the world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians. Also, South slope hosts several events of the Brooklyn pride such as (i) the MultiCultural Festival and (ii) the final stop of the Twilight Parade. Furthermore, South Slope is home of several LGBTQI+ bars, restaurants and shops such as Good Judy, Xstasy Bar and Lounge, Young Ethel's and Commonwealth.

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