{"id":211736,"date":"2026-04-27T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211736\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:22:08","slug":"park-slope-house-tour-to-spotlight-eco-friendly-homes-brooklyn-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211736\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Slope house tour to spotlight eco-friendly homes \u2022 Brooklyn Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/park-slope-brownstones-april2024-sdevries-1-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"park-slope-brownstones-april2024-sdevries-1-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Visitors can explore a mix of historic brownstones and eco-friendly homes during the Park Slope House Tour, returning in May with a focus on sustainable design and green living.<\/p>\n<p>File photo by Susan De Vries<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Indulge your architectural curiosity while checking out the sustainability efforts of Brooklynites with the return of the annual Park Slope House Tour in May. This year\u2019s Park Slope Civic Council event again focuses on homes with eco-friendly features.<\/p>\n<p>At least six sites will be on view, including a Passive House under construction, a home with a flood mitigation project, and a deep rear garden bringing green to the neighborhood. Period feature lovers will also get a look inside at least one restoration project, with a 19th century brownstone in the mix.<\/p>\n<p>The list of participating houses will be revealed to ticket holders shortly before the event on Sunday, May 17. Participants will have from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. to make their way to all of the tour spots.<\/p>\n<p>The annual house tour was launched in 1959 to raise awareness of the neighborhood as a desirable place to live and to showcase its impressive architecture. While house tours once proliferated in the Brooklyn as a way to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/interiors-renovation\/brooklyn-brownstone-revival-books-vintage-diy-renovation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lure potential homeowners<\/a>\u00a0to the borough, the number of tours\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/brooklyn-life\/rooklyn-brownstone-tour-interior-heights-boerum-hill-bed-stuy-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">has dropped in the last decade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Park Slope event, the regularly offered tours remaining are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/tag\/lefferts-manor-association\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lefferts Manor Association<\/a>\u00a0tour, offered in the spring, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/tag\/brownstoners-of-bedford-stuyvesant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brownstoners of Bedford-Stuyvesant<\/a>\u00a0annual tour in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the Park Slope tour are $55 per person and $50 for members of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/parkslopeciviccouncil.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Park Slope Civic Council<\/a>. Tickets\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/parkslopeciviccouncil.org\/events\/house-tours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">are available online<\/a>. The tour sold out quickly last year, so getting tickets early is recommended. Proceeds from the event will support a grant program for local arts and cultural organizations.<\/p>\n<p>This story first appeared on Brooklyn Paper\u2019s sister site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/architecture\/park-slope-house-tour-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brownstoner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visitors can explore a mix of historic brownstones and eco-friendly homes during the Park Slope House Tour, returning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,40333,25951,9,24,12,370,63,8005,1491,4838],"class_list":["post-211736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-eco-friendly","tag-house-tour","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-park-slope","tag-real-estate","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}