House Tour

The 51st Annual Tour is on May 16!

Every year since 1959, upwards of a thousand people have toured the houses of Park Slope.

In the early years, the Civic Council used the House Tour as a way to convince people to move here rather than the suburbs, thus playing a major role in saving Park Slope from the ravages that destroyed many other New York City neighborhoods.

In more recent years, the House Tour, generally held the first Sunday after Mothers' Day, has become the major fund raiser for the Civic Council, with proceeds plowed back into the community in our Grants Program.

Read about the $10,000 we awarded last year to 18 neighborhood schools and organizations.

In addition to ticket sales, proceeds come from House Tour sponsors. Sponsors for this year's tour are:

• Brown Harris Stevens, Brooklyn, LLC, 100 7th Ave.
• Ideal Properties Group LLC, 78 7th Ave.
  
• tb shaw realty associates, 197 7th Ave.
• Universal Mortgage, Inc., 455 1st St.
• Warren Lewis Realty Associates, 123A 7th Ave.
  
• Orrichio Anderson Realty, Inc., 302 7th Ave.
• Garfield Realty, 155 7th Ave.
• Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID, 247 5th Avenue

The many volunteers who make the Tour work include house sitters plus the PSCC Trustees and members who who, from January to May, select homes, raise funds, coordinate publicity, sell tickets, write and edit the brochure, design the poster and the street banner, recruit and organize the sitters, coordinate flowers, and arrange for tour buttons and tickets.

And, of course, the Tour would not be possible without our neighbors who open their homes and institutions.