Copter hovering over South Slope this morning

teafolks

Any ideas why? Nothing on Gothamist Crime Map.

starsinjenseyes

I don't know, but I saw 2 helicopters hovering over South Slope about this time last week. They didn't move for about 30 minutes or so. I didn't find anything on the Gothamist map last week when it happened either.

veets

I didnt see them but heard them in the early morning hours... sound woke me up.

brooklyngigcenter

They were checking out the dress on the American Apparel model, who thankfully is back!

dw438

Ah-OO-GA!
Ah-OO-GA!
We're being attacked by New Jersey!
[That's what happens when there's an unplanned change in government]
Everybody to the basements!

livetotravel

It was a group of cartographers trying to figure out what the fuck "South Slope" is.

whatchuwant

Why, oh WHY do they call it South Slope when it's NORTH!!!!! Dammit, makes me mad.

filmlover44

Whatchuwant wrote: Why, oh WHY do they call it South Slope when it's NORTH!!!!! Dammit, makes me mad.

Uh...

veets

filmlover44 wrote: [quote=Whatchuwant]Why, oh WHY do they call it South Slope when it's NORTH!!!!! Dammit, makes me mad.

Uh...

North of what?

I don't get your point.
Or you are making a pt. about geography that I am not getting.
Clarify..if you return to this thread.

whatchuwant

So Park Slope used to be from the Park to 6th Ave (from the south to the north....towards the city). Then it stretched to 5th, then when they got to 4th they started calling that South Slope. But its north of Park Slope, not south.

Got answers?

veets

Whatchuwant wrote: So Park Slope used to be from the Park to 6th Ave (from the south to the north....towards the city). Then it stretched to 5th, then when they got to 4th they started calling that South Slope. But its north of Park Slope, not south.

Got answers?

Like who cares.. but I do remember that where I live 9th street 4th and 5th ave usta be called South Brooklyn.

I did hear something about a fire around 30th street last night and that is why we were hearing the helicopters.

pitu

veets wrote: [quote=Whatchuwant]So Park Slope used to be from the Park to 6th Ave (from the south to the north....towards the city). Then it stretched to 5th, then when they got to 4th they started calling that South Slope. But its north of Park Slope, not south.

Got answers?

Like who cares.. but I do remember that where I live 9th street 4th and 5th ave usta be called South Brooklyn.

I did hear something about a fire around 30th street last night and that is why we were hearing the helicopters.

I agree with the basic who cares, but
The addition of below 6th Ave is not what anyone means by South Slope. It's 9th St and beyond that is such.

(from the south to the north....towards the city)

try west towards the city, making the part stretching towards Sunset Park *South Slope*.
it's not exactly either, but that's how it's commonly referenced

Morning helicopters are usually traffic jams, no?
ch2 was over Flatbush this early evening...

veets

Pitu.. I heard the helicopters too early for morning traffic.

brooke lynn knight

The truly crazy thing is that I read this thread yesterday morning, but didn't pay much attention because I hadn't heard anything from my house in the Center Slope.

But when I was walking around with my kid at around 2pm, on 5th Av near Carroll, I heard a deafening sound, and I looked up to see a Chinook-style transport helicopter flying quite low. (It was somewhere in the direction of Flatbush).




How crazy is that? I've never seen one over the Slope. A few minutes later I saw it again. Did anyone else see it? Is that the loud helicopter sound everyone was hearing?

furrygreyboy

Maybe they were bringing Bush in?

brooklyngigcenter

FurryGreyBOy wrote: Maybe they were bringing Bush in?

That's probably it.

Let's hope they were less careful getting him out of town.

whatchuwant

pitu wrote: [quote=veets][quote=Whatchuwant]So Park Slope used to be from the Park to 6th Ave (from the south to the north....towards the city). Then it stretched to 5th, then when they got to 4th they started calling that South Slope. But its north of Park Slope, not south.

Got answers?

Like who cares.. but I do remember that where I live 9th street 4th and 5th ave usta be called South Brooklyn.

I did hear something about a fire around 30th street last night and that is why we were hearing the helicopters.

I agree with the basic who cares, but
The addition of below 6th Ave is not what anyone means by South Slope. It's 9th St and beyond that is such.

(from the south to the north....towards the city)

try west towards the city, making the part stretching towards Sunset Park *South Slope*.
it's not exactly either, but that's how it's commonly referenced

Morning helicopters are usually traffic jams, no?
ch2 was over Flatbush this early evening...

OK, fine no one cares except me, I guess. No need to be snide about it. But I do have to add that in my experience, everyone I know refers to areas below 5th ave (4th, 3rd, so on...) as south slope, including friends who own on 4th and St. Marks.

I never really thought about the west part (anything after 15th street) because I never considered that anything but Sunset park (I see on another thread that around the 20's is known as Greenwood Heights..)

Anyway, no need to bunch ourselves up about it....(starting to feel "who cares" now as well.)

filmlover44

South Slope runs from 9th St to approx. 17th St or 23rd bordering Greenwood Heights (or Sunset Park), and from Prospect Park to 4th Avenue, While the borders like to change every now and then, it's been that way pretty much since I moved here in 1986 and it's the South West slope of the park.

West of 4th Avenue is, I believe, Gowanus.

theoryofpractice

Subject: Re: Copter hovering over South Slope this morning

TeaFolks wrote: Any ideas why? Nothing on Gothamist Crime Map.

They (someone) was filiming a movie in the S Slope. Maybe the helicopters were related to that.

pitu

Whatchuwant wrote: But I do have to add that in my experience, everyone I know refers to areas below 5th ave (4th, 3rd, so on...) as south slope, including friends who own on 4th and St. Marks.

I never really thought about the west part (anything after 15th street) because I never considered that anything but Sunset park (I see on another thread that around the 20's is known as Greenwood Heights..)

I don't think anyone was going for snide, just pointing out one of those simple but glaring mistakes that stand out when you know a place. You might as well refer to 4th and St. Marks as Prospect Heights then :?
And now you *know* at least three of us, telling you that common usage holds that if you are walking along 5th Ave towards Sunset Park, you are heading South, not West. It's really more southwestish, if you look at where the sun sets.
It's as odd as the not-true-to-the-poles East and West on the BQE/Belt etc, but that's the way North and South rolls. Again, not to be confused with actual direction, etc.

Anyone want to throw up that Someone Is Wrong On The Internet cartoon for me?

filmlover44

This is a new one on me. They are now calling Gowanus, the area mistakenly identified by the poster above as the "South Slope" "West Park Slope".

Gowanus Loung Link


NY Times Link

pitu

filmlover44 wrote: This is a new one on me. They are now calling Gowanus, the area mistakenly identified by the poster above as the "South Slope" "West Park Slope".

Gowanus Loung Link

Gowanus Lounge wrote: “They’re going to call Gowanus ‘West Park Slope’ or ‘East Carroll Gardens,’ ” Ms. Yurick said with a grimace. “It’s a joke. This is a truck route.”

Well, it's still a truck route, but not such a joke anymore.

O those wacky realtors. How about WePaSlo, or Westpark? EaBoHi perhaps?
Or just Under The Shadow Of Ratner?
:roll:

filmlover44

Given the the neighborhood was once frequented by prostitutes and their trucker Johns, I think WestHoGo would be a trendy but appropriate name for Gowanus that does not steal from it's proximity to Park Slope.

filmlover44

Or maybe NoMoHo?

longtimesloper

Whatchuwant wrote: [quote=pitu][quote=veets][quote=Whatchuwant]So Park Slope used to be from the Park to 6th Ave (from the south to the north....towards the city). Then it stretched to 5th, then when they got to 4th they started calling that South Slope. But its north of Park Slope, not south.

Got answers?

Like who cares.. but I do remember that where I live 9th street 4th and 5th ave usta be called South Brooklyn.

I did hear something about a fire around 30th street last night and that is why we were hearing the helicopters.

I agree with the basic who cares, but
The addition of below 6th Ave is not what anyone means by South Slope. It's 9th St and beyond that is such.

(from the south to the north....towards the city)

try west towards the city, making the part stretching towards Sunset Park *South Slope*.
it's not exactly either, but that's how it's commonly referenced

Morning helicopters are usually traffic jams, no?
ch2 was over Flatbush this early evening...

OK, fine no one cares except me, I guess. No need to be snide about it. But I do have to add that in my experience, everyone I know refers to areas below 5th ave (4th, 3rd, so on...) as south slope, including friends who own on 4th and St. Marks.

I never really thought about the west part (anything after 15th street) because I never considered that anything but Sunset park (I see on another thread that around the 20's is known as Greenwood Heights..)

Anyway, no need to bunch ourselves up about it....(starting to feel "who cares" now as well.)


Really? People in my experience mean above 9th Street when referring to South Slope-I have never heard anyone call below 5th Avenue South Slope.

Oh well, so, the copters were for a movie?

caaahyoko

filmlover44 wrote: Or maybe NoMoHo?

teehee. Nice.