Park Slope and Carroll Gardens

The NYU Furman Center profiles Park Slope and Carroll Gardens together as one of 59 New York City neighborhoods, west of Prospect Park in Brooklyn. It estimates 134,162 residents for 2024, the city's 35th largest neighborhood by population.

Key figures for 2024 (NYU Furman Center, incomes and rents in 2025 dollars):

• Foreign-born residents: 15.8%
• Median household income: $188,730, more than twice the Brooklyn median
• Homeownership rate: 37.1%
• Households with children under 18: 28.9%
• Mean commute to work: 38.0 minutes

A largely residential area bordering Prospect Park, with a higher share of homeowners and families than Brooklyn as a whole and a much lower share of foreign-born residents (15.8% compared with 35.7% for the borough). The median household income is more than twice the Brooklyn median.

• F and G trains stop at Bergen St, Carroll St, Smith–9 Sts, 4 Av–9 St, 7 Av and 15 St–Prospect Park.
• R trains stop at Union St, 4 Av–9 St and Prospect Av.
• 2 and 3 trains stop at Bergen St and Grand Army Plaza, and B and Q trains at 7 Av.
• Atlantic Av–Barclays Ctr, just to the north, connects to the 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q and R lines.

Rents are well above the Brooklyn average. In 2024 the median rent paid by all renters was $2,900, and households that had recently moved paid a median of $3,590, higher than the Manhattan median for recent movers. Only 14.7% of renter households were severely rent-burdened, about half the Brooklyn rate.

Nearly three in ten households have children under 18. Children attend their zoned public school from kindergarten to grade 8, and families apply for free 3-K and Pre-K seats through MySchools. Prospect Park (about 526 acres) borders the area, and smaller parks include Washington Park and Carroll Park.