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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That building is right next to the Prospect Expressway. Constant hum of traffic 24-hours a day. Are the windows soundproof?
Its “Prospect Expressway Heights”
You could call that building Highway Cliff.
Sun Slope? Give me a break…
-greenwood slope
From the Concerned Citizens of Green-Wood Hts. website ( I have see similar definitions on wikipedia and other neighborhood sites:
“Where is Greenwood Heights?
Good Question! Depending on who you speak to, how long they have been in Brooklyn or even do some digging on the web, maps, etc., you may get several answers. Loyalists from Sunset Park say this is part of their community. Those farther north may call this South Park Slope (its own questionable name). Old timers in the neighborhood may just call it South Brooklyn, fuhgebbaboubit! According to articles in the MSM, maps dating as far back as the Battle of Brooklyn, the area surrounding what is now Green-Wood Cemetery, our illustrious neighbor, was called the “Heights of Greenwood” or “the Greenwood” (even at times “The Heights of Gowan).
Since the 1970’s-80’s, depending on what paper you believe, the name “Greenwood Heights” made it into print officially in the New York Times and since the rezoning “South Park Slope ULURP’ in November 2005 (pdf) and being added to Community Board 7’s official neighborhood roster, the area is loosely defined from the Prospect Expressway to the north, 38th Street to the south, 4th Avenue to the west and 8th Avenue/PPW to the east. But heck, what’s in a name? It more about the neighborhood and community! Just don’t call us late to dinner. ;)”
http://www.ccgreenwoodhts.com/
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Ain’t gonna play Sun Slope…
how about calling it South Brooklyn?
I live here and I think just Greenwood sounds better than Greenwood Hts, and definitely NOT Sun Slope.
Bad name! What’s wrong with South Slope and Greenwood Heights? Where is it exactly? I’ll come up with something better. Why does everyone want to keep the word Slope (yes, I actually know)? It was dumb when the neighborhood was first named a bazillion years ago.
To be fair, the term Greenwood Heights was made up by realtors too. Trust me, when I was growing up here, that area was considered Sunset Park. I won’t dispute it needed a different name b/c its not really Sunset Park either but credit where credit’s due.