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How walkable is Park Slope?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Park Slope has a walkability score of 96 out of 100 across the 950 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the 3rd most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Brooklyn, which scores 92 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
2,395 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Park Slope. The nearest grocery is Foodtown of Park Slope, about a minute away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.
- Emporium Fresh Market1 min
- Mnm Grocery Inc1 min
- Varrio 4081 min
- Chela1 min
- Big Man Headquarters1 min
- Leopoldi Hardware1 min
- Dunkin'2 min
- Thảo Dược Kim Ngân Xoang2 min
- Citizens Bank2 min
- Webster Bank3 min
- Ennis Playground11 min
- Gowanus Waterfront Park15 min
- PS 118 The Maurice Sendak Community School3 min
- M.S. 51 William Alexander4 min
- Galaxy Comics1 min
- Galaxy Collectibles1 min
- Old Stone House of Brooklyn6 min
- Park Slope Salon7 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Park Slope at 40.6701, -73.9860. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 66 street intersections per km², and blocks average 131 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 2%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Park Slope
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 950 m around the centre of Park Slope. Rings mark 450 m and 950 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Brooklyn
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown Brooklyn | 2.4 km | 100 |
| Brooklyn Heights | 3 km | 99 |
| Crown Heights | 3.6 km | 94 |
| Bedford–Stuyvesant | 4.1 km | 94 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Brooklyn page.
Questions about walking in Park Slope
Is Park Slope walkable?
Yes. Park Slope in Brooklyn has a walkability score of 96 out of 100 across the 950 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Park Slope more walkable than the rest of Brooklyn?
Park Slope is more walkable than Brooklyn as a whole: it scores 96, against 92 for the 5 km around Brooklyn's centre. It ranks 3rd of the 5 Brooklyn neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Brooklyn?
Of the 5 Brooklyn neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Downtown Brooklyn (100), Brooklyn Heights (99) and Park Slope (96).
How is the walkability score of Park Slope calculated?
The score counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and deducts up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long. For Park Slope it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 950 m around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.