Unfortunate New Neighborhood Name: Sun Slope
Desperate times call for desperate measures…When you’re trying to market a building with as dodgy a past as the one at 639 6th Avenue, who can blame a broker for getting creative with the marketing spin. After pleading hardship to the BSA, illegally cutting trees and suffering a tragic worker accident, the 6-unit condo known…
Desperate times call for desperate measures…When you’re trying to market a building with as dodgy a past as the one at 639 6th Avenue, who can blame a broker for getting creative with the marketing spin. After pleading hardship to the BSA, illegally cutting trees and suffering a tragic worker accident, the 6-unit condo known as Six on Sixth is now on the market and the listing verbiage is just too precious to pass over:
Some call it South Slope. Some insist it’s beyond the boundary with Sunset Park. Others are beginning to call this quiet, tucked away neighborhood Sun Slope. Stop by and decide on your own. We’re sure you’ll love it.
And still others call it what it actually is—Greenwood Heights.
Preview of 639 6th Avenue [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
Tragic Construction Accident at 639 6th Avenue [Brownstoner]
Where Does a Tree Stand in Development Hierarchy? [Brownstoner]
BSA Makes a Mockery of Itself in Two Rulings [Brownstoner]
Slop Slope? ( I really don’t like that new building much…. does it show? )
Slippery Slope Slippery Slop Slippery Slo Slippery Sl Slippery S Slippery Slipper Slippe Slipp Slip Sli Sl S…
Some realtors were trying to implant the name SoSlo on this area. Nice, in an ironic sort of way, but Boneyard Heights wins hands down.
If you are talking about the large building that took what seemed like too long a time to complete at about 300 16th st. ….
stand in front of that building and look at it. I swear it looks crooked (besides looking shabby and poorly contsructed). I know the street is not level, and perhaps it is an illusion, but the lines are not parallel and it just gives the place an unsettling feeling.
I read somewhere recently that most of the people buying these new condos only plan on living in them or in the area for 3 or 4 years.
Too bad, since many of us have plans to be here our entire lives and we have to live with the ugly monstrosities they leave behind.
These marketing people are awful, do they know what neighborhood they are in? Their pricing finishes and marketing campaign are awful, what market do they think was buying here, this isn’t Williamsburg!! They must be feeling pretty stupid right now except they did the same mistakes on the other project on 16th street. The developer would do good to fire these clowns!
As far as naming the nabes, there was an excellent history – with newspaper clippings for source material – on Icky Brooklyn blog a few weeks ago http://ickyinbrooklyn.livejournal.com/14115.html
Greenwood Heights is not new, and the boundaries were ever fluid and changing depending on the developing areas
Back to the monstrosity we call the “cruise ship” on our street (and unfortunately we must share our street with the cruise ship), it is horrid looking, the walls already have graffiti and the bottom windows are busted out. I know that they originally said they needed to get 1 million a floor for the place, my how times have changed.
NFN: the Brit map for the Battle of Long Island (now that had to be changed too) identified the heights as the Hills of Guam. No, I’m not kidding! It was on the map at the NYPL exhibit early this year. The high area to the east was the Woodsy Hills of Guam. Brokers: go with it. If you put a posh accent on it, like they do with the Hampton’s, it’ll sell!
I was told by someone who lived in Sunset Park when it was still a Scandinavian neighborhood that Sunset Park is itself a new name for the area, that prior to the 1970s (when the area was red-lined by banks), it was just thought of as part of Bay Ridge.
How about SOSS!! (South of South Slope, pronounced SAUCE)!
Ok, I will stop.