Park Slope vs Prospect Heights

Park Slope ranks 2nd of the 48 Brooklyn neighborhoods on this site and Prospect Heights 29th, on median street scores of 65 and 53 out of 100. One column runs against that order, and it is the one Park Slope is least happy about: Prospect Heights holds cleanliness, 43 to 40.

The rest belongs to Park Slope. Quietness reads 63 to 34, the widest gap on this page, and traffic safety 68 to 60. Access separates the two by a single point, 81 for Prospect Heights and 80 for Park Slope.

Prospect Heights carries 19 mapped streets, the smallest graded population of any Brooklyn neighborhood we compare, and the two roads it is known by mostly sit outside it. About a quarter of Vanderbilt Avenue falls inside the neighborhood and almost none of Flatbush Avenue does, because both run the boundary with the pages next door.

What is left is the short grid between Atlantic Avenue and the park, and that grid is where the cleanliness lead comes from. Prospect Heights reads 43 on cleanliness, which counts sanitation complaints against the homes exposed to them, against Park Slope's 40.

11th Street is the best-scoring block in Park Slope at 78 out of 100, on a quietness reading of 90 and a traffic-safety reading of 90. The cleanliness reading on 11th Street is 32, the weakest column on the block and well under the Park Slope average.

Underhill Avenue is the top block in Prospect Heights and it fails on the same column. Sanitation is what Park Slope gives up for its quiet. In Prospect Heights the weakest column is quietness instead, at 34.