Only one stop past Park Slope on the Brooklyn-bound Q train sits Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. Named after Prospect Park, the Lefferts family homestead, and the Botanical Gardens, this neighborhood is stylistically Caribbean to the core. Caribbean culture dominates petite stores, corner bodegas, lovely boutiques, beauty salons, and even the exterior decoration of buildings. Limestone homes, stucco Tudor-style row houses, shingled Victorians, and an occasional brownstone make up most of the neighborhood’s housing stock.
