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 prefer to call the neighborhood Park Slump.
Sun Slope is what the folks at City Hall are calling this neighborhood. The building is not in Park Slope which officially ends at 15th Street where Sunset Park begins.
As for Greenwood Heights – yea, the broker should have given the neighborhood the same name as the nearby cemetery. Good thinking!!!
“I see dead people”
$825,000 and $757 cc for one bedroom.
There.
It is to laugh, hah hah!
The architectural rendering last year looked great.
the final product is just so…
sad.
Talk about living on the edge.
This building might as well be on the edge of a cliff. In fact it would be better off there. At least it would be quite. No rumbling highway out the window.
As for the area.
I grew up there and it had no name. Just someplace between the rich of Park Slope and the poor of Sunset Park.
Working class people don’t have time to be naming there nabe.
Just “Home”.
Slippery Slope. Say it. Love it. Be it.
Robert Moses Valley
What I love is that everyone was ragging this building’s original fugly design with its balconies overlooking 6th Ave and the expressway, where the heck did they disappear to?
I hear the developer (working with the Developers Group) was from Seattle, thus the white, silver and blue stucco facade. Could not believe how ugly it is when I drove by the other day.
Go Seahawks!
South Brooklyn is the older accepted name for the area of Carroll Gardens/Red Hook. Still used, but mainly before the BQE dissected the neighborhood in two.