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.
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i once saw a condo ad describe this area as South South Slope.
teehee!
“As for Greenwood Heights – yea, the broker should have given the neighborhood the same name as the nearby cemetery. Good thinking!!!”
guest 12:48,
When you get your head out of your ass (how you can see to type, I have no idea), read my post from earlier in the day.
Been called Greenwood even BEFORE the cemetery, which BTW was rated the #3 top open green spaces in NYC by TONY this week.
You ought to take a stroll someday, you might be surprised at the beauty of the architecture, greenery and the oasis it really is in our lovely borough.
Guest 1:27,
The CB found out he was very badly injured, 4 story fall, went to Lutheran Medial but never anything beyond that. Me thinks the worst.
But that’s the way developer’s kick-it in SunSlope.
Nothing has sold because it is possibly the ugliest building in the area (though that’s debatable) and it overlooks the expressway. The lovely (ha!) white stucco is already covered with graffiti.
I love that this has been on the market for 2 months and not one sold! The developers group has to be the worst marketing firm of all time!!
Boneyard Heights! Love it!!
Boneyard Heights.
SOPEX sounds like a feminine toiletry article…Ugly sounding. I’ll take Greenwood any day over that.
Whatever happened to the injured construction worker at this site? What is his condition?
Friends who live a few doors down from this building (which is REALLY ugly) refer to the neighborhood as SOPEX – South of Prospect Expressway.
oh yeah, we’ve been calling it sun slope for while now. there’s also ridge-slope, benson-slope, flat-slope, hook-slope, coney-slope…