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]
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Lived in the South Slope since 2004. Love it. There are many beautiful streets and there are some that aren’t so nice but 14th to 9th is great between 5th and the Park and 15th and 16th are nice from around 6th to the Park, especially 7th ave to the Park. Commute is around 45 minutes to Rockefeller Center, door-to-door.
Never venture north of 9th because there’s no reason to.
To 5:37
Jaded – no
Bitter – No
Honest about the South Slope – Yes
I am truly very happy that the money has rolled in as I stated you have all given me a tremendous nest egg. No one who has lived here over 20 years could have imagined that we would have done gotten such a massive return on our investments. We stand to lose nothing versus those who will abandon at the first moment of a downturn.
We believed in this area and stood by it when you were still a baby. We lived through the drug dealers, the crack addicts, all the abandoned business.
You are the type who only wants en vogue – which is what the South Slope has become.
Puff piece. South Slope is fine and its amenities are improving but most of it is really ugly. It looks and feels nothing like Park Slope. As for claims of a 20-minute commute to Midtown it takes 20 minutes just to get out of Brooklyn. Latinos have not left South Slope and Sunset Park. There may be a bit less than before but there are still a lot of latino residents and plenty low-income residents too. Which is fine, nothing wrong with it, so why make a point to obscure that fact? To sell more condos?
5:25…are you always this bitter and jaded or does that come from being a “true” new yorker?”
god, we can all wish to be so true as you.
For all of you neophytes to the South Slope – you have not lived through good times, then the bad times and now the good times as the homeowners who put down roots many years ago and stuck by their neighborhood. These people are truly New Yorkers who have seen a blue collar middle class area go to the pretentious, ill mannered white collar set.
Most of you can only talk about the last three to five years when the transformation had already begun to take place long before. I want to hear your support for the area in three years when it becomes so overcrowded and all the surrounding services cannot keep up with all the new condo construction. Keep supporting the area when all those who inflated the real estate prices by taking exorbitant mortgages cannot refinance homes when they need to and either foreclose or take a huge loss which will impact all of you.
However, I wish to thank all of you who have made me glad that I was a pioneer as my home is now my retirement income and then some.
4:33,
which of the new south slope restaurants are pretentious? they seem pretty down-to-earth to me, and i think they are a welcome addition to the area.
yes, 16th street has had problems, especially with a-hole contractors/developers, and I know someone on that block who has a damaged house to show for the changes, but i’m happier here now than i was four years ago. and the fact is, my friends house is worth lots more because of all the new activity and interest in the area.
funny you mentioned jack’s – i went there once when i first moved to south slope and the service and food were so bad i never gave it another shot.
There you go, the personal attack…just cut it out.
4:53 = guy who hasn’t been laid in 10 years.
South Slope has gotten more expensive.
It also has substantially less crime and abandoned buildings.
Which would you rather have?