The Park Slope Civic Council’s annual house tour, with a sustainability focus, restarted on June 2.
The tour, sidelined during the pandemic, offered an inside look at seven unique properties. The tour sold out, with 200 tickets sold.
We featured passive homes and apartments, some with heat pumps, some with solar power, many architect-designed and all energy efficient.
The well-designed homes showed how sustainability and beautiful design can co-exist. And the mix of old brownstones and new construction demonstrated the variety of housing options available in Park Slope. An 1895 carriage house with an interior courtyard and a garage with charging for an electric vehicle showed how luxury living and a commitment to the environment can overlap. A apartment building constructed with mass timber showcased building with a lower carbon footprint than steel.
The Resumption of Neighborhood Grants
Besides offering tour attendees the opportunity to learn about flood, mitigation, heat pumps, induction stoves and triple pane windows, the house tour raised funds for the neighborhood grants program. The grants, offered to local non-profit organizations, had continued on a limited basis since the House Tour’s absence, but the program is now fully operational again.
