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Park Slope

Park Slope, a farming area in the late 1800’s became a bedroom community for the middle class-mostly, Irish and Italian when the subway made its way into the area. 

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Chabad Park Slope
Chabad Park Slope

Park Slope, a farming area in the late 1800’s became a bedroom community for the middle class-mostly, Irish and Italian when the subway made its way into the area. It was a bucolic suburban setting. It went downward into rooming houses and the Brownstone revival began in the late 1960’s with revival of the original homes and was declared a National Historic landmark in 1973. Home to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library nearby and the Brooklyn Museum it is now a much desired real estate driven community of restored homes, lovely shops and galleries.

Congregation Beth Elohim
Congregation Beth Elohim 

Congregation Beth Elohim, founded in 1861, is one of the fastest growing and most vibrant synagogues in New York City. CBE, also known as Garfield Temple, was recently named “one of America’s 25 most vibrant congregations” by Newsweek, which hailed CBE for “quickly adapting to Brooklyn’s exciting, young population.” Open to people from a variety of backgrounds who honor our traditions and values, CBE serves as a hub for members and for the surrounding community as well. It is a place of worship, dedicated to honoring Jewish traditions, and also a place of learning, a place to socialize, to celebrate and to actively engage with the world, a synagogue center energizing and enriching our Jewish community through study, ritual and acts of loving-kindness. “The Brownstoner”