Official Prospect Heights Borders

What would you call the "official" street borders for Prospect Heights?

When I first moved to PH ten years ago, I would say it was Flatbush, Atlantic, Eastern Parkway and Washington Ave. Nowadays the real estate agents have pushed it as far as Franklin Ave. Sorry, but IMO that's Crown Heights. I could go as far as Classon, but that's it.

I was under the impression that it was Washington, Flatbush, Atlantic and the Park. Yes??

like oiseau stated::: easternparkway,washington,atlantic, flatbush.

vanilla wrote: like oiseau stated::: easternparkway,washington,atlantic, flatbush.

I agree. Any other boundaries are just made up for the real estate agents.

We actually discussed this at great length on the Crown Heights board. A lot of the Crown Heights folks continue to believe they live in Prospect Heights.

http://dailyheights.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=480

So, officially, we can agree that the hospital apartments are in Crown Heights?

Carnivore wrote: [quote=vanilla]like oiseau stated::: easternparkway,washington,atlantic, flatbush.

I agree. Any other boundaries are just made up for the real estate agents.

We actually discussed this at great length on the Crown Heights board. A lot of the Crown Heights folks continue to believe they live in Prospect Heights.

http://dailyheights.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=480

Carnivore, I thought you were a convert! Wasn't it you who found the proof in the NYC maps?

Anyway it hardly matters, as neighborhood boundaries change all the time. When I first came to New York, Park Slope was half the size it is today. They're NEIGHBORHOODS, people, not cities or districts. It's all anecdotal anyway.

I'm not trying to incite a riot here. I'm just thinking of a PH shirt design and it involves the borders of the neighborhood.

ana.log wrote: Anyway it hardly matters, as neighborhood boundaries change all the time. When I first came to New York, Park Slope was half the size it is today. They're NEIGHBORHOODS, people, not cities or districts. It's all anecdotal anyway.

Park Slope (and many other neighborhoods) are still the same sizes they always were. 22nd Street and 7th Avenue isn't Park Slope no matter what a real estate agent/newspaper says. That was the most amusing part of the apartment hunt as I remember: "Lovely Clinton Hill on Utica Avenue and Herkimer." Yeah right!

According to Wikipedia:

"Prospect Heights is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, USA, bounded by Flatbush Avenue, Atlantic Avenue, Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue. At the northernmost frontier are the Atlantic Avenue Train Yards. Defunct bakeries and factory spaces line Pacific Street from Vanderbilt Avenue to Carlton Avenue. The neighborhood consists mostly of brownstone style residential buildings, although the blocks of Lincoln and St. Johns Places between Underhill and Washington Avenues are multi-unit, depression-era buildings."

This thread on the CH board is a pretty exhaustive discussion of the topic

http://dailyheights.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=480

Will wrote: So, officially, we can agree that the hospital apartments are in Crown Heights?

Definitely. Except when telling cabbies at night where you want to go

BrookFetish wrote: I'm not trying to incite a riot here. I'm just thinking of a PH shirt design and it involves the borders of the neighborhood.

I'd stick with the wikipedia definition for that. Much as I'd like to be included.

Will wrote: According to Wikipedia:

"Prospect Heights is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, USA, bounded by Flatbush Avenue, Atlantic Avenue, Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue. At the northernmost frontier are the Atlantic Avenue Train Yards. Defunct bakeries and factory spaces line Pacific Street from Vanderbilt Avenue to Carlton Avenue. The neighborhood consists mostly of brownstone style residential buildings, although the blocks of Lincoln and St. Johns Places between Underhill and Washington Avenues are multi-unit, depression-era buildings."

Wikipedia can be edited by anyone. If I go in and change the boundaries, then I guess you'll take that new entry as gospel too?

ana.log wrote: [quote=Will]According to Wikipedia:

"Prospect Heights is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, USA, bounded by Flatbush Avenue, Atlantic Avenue, Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue. At the northernmost frontier are the Atlantic Avenue Train Yards. Defunct bakeries and factory spaces line Pacific Street from Vanderbilt Avenue to Carlton Avenue. The neighborhood consists mostly of brownstone style residential buildings, although the blocks of Lincoln and St. Johns Places between Underhill and Washington Avenues are multi-unit, depression-era buildings."

Wikipedia can be edited by anyone. If I go in and change the boundaries, then I guess you'll take that new entry as gospel too?

No, no, it was just shorthand for saying I think that the borders it listed are the right ones...or at least the most defensible/traditional ones. Not that I think the source itself is infallible. I just honestly didn't want to type them out again.

Also, I live (as do you) in the sometimes-disputed border zone, and I don't want no one taking away my street cred

i always believed the eastern most border of prospect heights was washington. but yeah, the realtors have been pushing it evermore east. lets hope it doesn't affect nostrand, and therefore my street cred.

t-fal wrote: i always believed the eastern most border of prospect heights was washington. but yeah, the realtors have been pushing it evermore east. lets hope it doesn't affect nostrand, and therefore my street cred.

If you think that's pushin' it...

There's an old garage on Sterling, on the CH side of Washington, with a sign that reads (if i remember correctly) "Park Slope Garage" This is carved in stone above the doorway, not a sign that was just slapped up!

yeah! I've often seen that and wondered. I'm surprised the realtors haven;t taken advantage and annexed that block to the slope.

ana.log wrote: Carnivore, I thought you were a convert!

Just trying to rile ya'! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Carnivore wrote: Just trying to rile ya'! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

No!!! I can't see you doin' that at all!!!

arielbl wrote: yeah! I've often seen that and wondered. I'm surprised the realtors haven;t taken advantage and annexed that block to the slope.

ha, i know that place well, as my boyfriend has this wacky idea to buy that place and make it into a music studio/loft bla bla bla sort of thing. i said only if he'll build me a rollerskating rink and an aviary for our birds in there too. it will never happen.

t-fal wrote: [quote=arielbl]yeah! I've often seen that and wondered. I'm surprised the realtors haven;t taken advantage and annexed that block to the slope.

ha, i know that place well, as my boyfriend has this wacky idea to buy that place and make it into a music studio/loft bla bla bla sort of thing. i said only if he'll build me a rollerskating rink and an aviary for our birds in there too. it will never happen.

He's not the only guy with a wacky idea for the place (or some of the surrounding spaces)!!! I mean, if someone can tuck a church in on that block, why not a retail establishment?!