GREENWOOD SLIGHT
MTA map eliminates Greenwood Heights in favor of expanded Park Slope
BY BEN VERDE
The Metropolitan Transportation
Authority stuck its foot in a contentious
debate that’s divide Brooklynites for decades
— where does Park Slope end and
Greenwood Heights begin?
A recently installed map at the 25th
Street subway station places the bougie
brownstone neighborhood well below
the Prospect Expressway, where the
moniker “Park Slope” is labeled confi
dently, despite the area’s namesake
greenspace, Prospect Park, ending at
15th Street and Greenwood Cemetery
taking over as the most prominent landmark.
The faux pas sparked a lively debate
on the Brooklyn sub-Reddit page, where
user CallYaMuthaAlreddie claimed
that 15th Street remains Park Slope’s defi
nitive southern boundary.
“This map is wrong,” wrote the
Reddit user. “Park Slope ends at 15th
street, where the park ends. There’s
no park to slope from at Prospect Avenue.”
The MTA’s map also refutes the
Brooklyn Paper newsroom’s handy
map of the borough, where Greenwood
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Heights is located south of the expressway,
and which this publication holds
as the defi nitive arbiter of neighborhood
boundaries — if only because it’s what
we’re used to.
However, a spokesman for the MTA
said that the Authority’s in-house cartographers
base their maps on city data,
claiming that it isn’t transit bigwigs
who extended Park Slope south of 15th
Street, but rather the de Blasio Administration.
“These maps are based on data provided
by and used consistently by New
York City government and we’re not in a
position to change the City’s municipal
map,” said MTA rep Shams Tarek.
The Department of CIty Planning
did not comment on the record.
Regardless of where you stand on the
Park Slope/Greenwood Heights divide,
the MTA’s map bears one undeniable
mistake — the Con-Edison Greenwood
Substation located on Fifth Avenue between
23rd and 24th streets has been
conspicuously relocated by the Authority
map makers, who place the blocklong
station on Sixth Avenue between
22nd and 23rd streets.
A map located at the 25th Street subway station places Park Slope south of the Prospect
Expressway. Photo by Ben Verde
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