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Where Does Park Slope Begin and End? Draw Your Neighborhood's Boundaries

PARK SLOPE — Stroller-clogged sidewalks, multimillion-dollar brownstones, children named Juniper — the clichés of Park Slope are well-known to one and all.

What's less clear, even to locals, is where the neighborhood starts and stops.

Does Park Slope's southern edge end at Ninth Street, 15th Street, or the Prospect Expressway? If a cab driver dropped a Park Sloper off on Flatbush Avenue, would they be in home territory?

The debate over the neighborhood's borders has raged for more than a century and provides endless fodder for self-styled cartographers on Twitter.

Is there such as neighbrohood as South Slope, or was it invented by real estate agents? Does the name "Parkwanus" make you "feel stabby"?

Channel that aggression and use DNAinfo's new map tool to bring these blurred lines into sharp focus once and for all.

Once we get enough submissions, we'll present the findings for all to see  — and fight over.