Miss "Park Slope" America Might Actually Live in Windsor Terrace

Does recently-crowned Miss America Mallory Hagan live in Park Slope or Windsor Terrace? Which neighborhood gets to drunkenly claim her as their own while getting tossed out of a bar. "Dewyewknowwhoiam? I'm the naaayberhood that Mizzz Merica lives in!"

This seems to be the big question on some peoples' minds, and was likely prompted by the re-publication of a Brooklyn Paper article in which the then Miss New York opened up about yoga, bikes, and her subway stop: 

 "No I don’t bike. And I don’t do yoga. I take the F train from the 15th Street, Prospect Park station. My parents have given me very little rules, but one of them that I will not ride a bicycle in New York!"

Windsor Terrace businesses are already going out of their way to pay homage. The Double Windsor named a pint of Sixpoint IPA and an Alabama Slammer after her (where she's originally from.) 

Your move, Park Slope bars.

Congrats to Miss "Park Slope" America!

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Okay, so she's not technically from Park Slope, but Mallory Hagan has lived on 17th Street for the past four years since moving here from Alabama with a suitcase and a dream. After strutting her stuff in a black bikini and answering ABC weatherman Sam Champion's hard-hitting question about gun control in the wake of Newtown, Miss New York tap danced her way to the title of Miss America on Saturday night...and into the hearts of all the Brooklynites who want to claim her as their own (well, at the very least, Marty Markowitz is shitting unicorns in adulation.) And, lo, even better, she is from Park Slope! Lucky us!

Clearly, moving to Brooklyn was a calculated move by Ms. Hagan. She knew that the challenges of being a young single lady in our stroller-strewn neighborhood would provide her with invaluable pageant-winning skills, such as:

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