Changing South Slope Gets Some Ink From AMNY
This morning the South Slope gets a big writeup in AM New York with a focus on how the area is different from mainland Slope (“There are way less strollers and dogs,” says one resident. “There’s more of the remaining community present and it feels more authentic. There are more twentysomethings here, too.”) but also…
This morning the South Slope gets a big writeup in AM New York with a focus on how the area is different from mainland Slope (“There are way less strollers and dogs,” says one resident. “There’s more of the remaining community present and it feels more authentic. There are more twentysomethings here, too.”) but also how it’s also beginning to look a lot more like the North Slope. Brokers and residents say the South Slope’s influx of boutiques, cafes and residents priced out of Slope prime are all contributing to the area becoming more like the blocks north of 9th Street. We half buy this argument but think South Slope’s completely different aesthetic, buildings-wise, is always going to set it apart from its neighbor to the North, and it also seems evident that exciting retail has been a lot slower to come to the area than it has to the North Slope—especially 5th Ave.—in recent years. There isn’t a whole lot of treatment of the area’s new condo building boom, though a sales manager for the Vue (a Brownstoner advertiser) says the condo’s been well-received because “The newer residents of the area have demands that need to be met.” A South Sloper named Jarrett Shamlian, who has lived in the neighborhood for four years, has the article’s most interesting commentary about how the area is changing. “Four years ago it was more affordable—my rent’s raised $100 every year,” he says. “The Latin community has been pushed out. For example, there was a small Latin cafe where I could get Tres Leches at 3:00 am that closed. The 99-cent stores are going under, with banks filling the empty spaces. People are being pressured into putting up new facades, perhaps in a community effort to ‘clean up’ the area’s image.”
New York Real Estate: South Slope [AM New York]
Photo by imbyblogspot.
who cares about the names of neighborhood, except for brokers and real estate people, for names sake—as long as the nabe has what you need? 23rd is 23rd, whether it’s called SP or GH…
11:37 – your right! People living on 3ed avenue can say that they reside in park slope as well as those living on 23ed street!
North slope is the real deal! others are posers/wannabees.
if everyone hates the slope so much, why does the border extend 5 blocks every year?
The southen border of South Slope is now 23rd Street.
I am 19 y.o. and have a four-inch penis. I own in the slope and earn my living working the line at the local Studebaker factory. Union job. It may not require a PhD, but it has SOUL and it pays the bills, ya dunderheads.
i love park slope too, 8:09.
hi,
i was the poster at 12:56 that sparked a war it seems – yikes
What’s crazy to me is that I read someplace the median salary was about $55K in park slope, so am shocked to hear sooo many people on this blog make more than $200K a year. What does everyone do for a living that affords them these lofty salaries?
yes, combined we make $95K. I make $75K and he works part time as he goes to school. I work in the ent biz where frankly I make comprable $ to my friends who are 32 working in marketing, so kudos to you if you are 32 and making $200K combined, considering you are not a lawyer ot broker/finance type.
My husband was actually born here in park slope and has lived here his entire life. I moved here b/c of him and I love it.
7:24: I’d rather encounter 10 crackwhores, addicts and drug dealers before I’d want to meet you.
“Never venture north of 9th because there’s no reason to.”
wow, you’re a real loser. so you never go see a show at union hall, southpaw, shop at beacons closet, been to al di la (one of the best restaurants in nyc), go to brunch at miriam, shop at flight001, explore bob and judy’s antique shop, go to the brooklyn museum, greenmarket, library?
you sound super fun!
btw, the historic and most beautiful section of park slope is above 9th, but you don’t really sound as though you’d have much interest in anything outside your 5 block radius.