My new apt... Do I live in Park Slope?

anonymous

Just signed a lease to move in to my first studio apartment. Very excited :]

It's on 7th street between 3rd and 4th avenue. Technically, where the hell am I? Park Slope? Gowanus? Park Glowanuspe? It's the 11215 area code, I know that.

There's a cab company nearby on 4th ave. And a BP gas station. A spiffy-looking laundromat. Probably a deli. That's all I can think of right now.

On my block there's a few average-looking buildings (where my apt will be), one brand new luxury co-op building which really seems out of place (it has a website and info on a big billboard outside it, which I can't remember), and a big warehouse takes up several lots on the northwest part of the block, trucks going in and out. It's a pretty eclectic little place.

Any comments? Things to look forward to? Cautionary tales? Should I start packing a gat? I've been reading a lot of these posts; it's a great way to learn about what's going on in the hood.

Thanks!

8thandprez

If you're btw 3rd and 4th Ave, you're in Gowanus, baby! If the real estate mkt continues its insanity a bit longer, Corcoran will "annex" you into Park Slope, Red Hook, or Carroll Gardens.

candicissima

G-Slope says Curbed.com, Gowanus says the board probs.

quijibo

it's a cool neighborhood

i live on st. mark's between 3 + 4th avenues

when people ask me. i say gowanus

not reallllly park slope
not reallllly carroll gardens

the taint of crooklyn
gowanus is

daahookup21

On that block nothing to look forward to. Non stop traffic, do u own a car, if you do , its hard to park there because of the autoparts place DAnKan their drivers take all the spots and are very rude. So many of the neighbors cars have been hit. They like to double park there cars, alot of trucks come up the block. Besides that everthing else is alright. The laundry mat up the block it great, the Deli on 6th street and 4th is really good to eat at.
Park Slope Area

kittygolightly

Perhaps Gowanus Heights? My pals and I enjoy "Park Gulch" as well.

silverfortress

I have a studio in Gowanus, which includes both sides of 4th Ave, over to the Canal, from Carroll St down to... the BQE? To my mind, anyway.

If you are walking on level ground, it's not the slope.

quijibo

silverfortress wrote: I have a studio in Gowanus, which includes both sides of 4th Ave, over to the Canal, from Carroll St down to... the BQE? To my mind, anyway.

If you are walking on level ground, it's not the slope.

on the corner of Union + 5th ave
look down towards the river

from that corner down to the water
it's pretty much all sloped

i saw 3 hipsters ride their skateboards a few hours ago
down union + 5th ave

doctorj

kittygolightly wrote: Perhaps Gowanus Heights? My pals and I enjoy "Park Gulch" as well.

Howabout "Park Sump"?

anonymous

I lived there 27 years and always considered it the slope.

armchair_warrior

Anonymous wrote: I lived there 27 years and always considered it the slope.

i guess for 27 yrs no body had the guts to tell you its not the slope .

z

Well, here I am, 3 months later. If you want to believe the people who have been living on this block for decades, 7th street between 3rd and 4th avenue is indeed Park Slope. (Minus the yuppie density.)

I live across the street from a Chinese furniture warehouse. Two or three nights a week, at about 3AM a truck pulls up to unload/wake me up. At 9am another truck pulls up, someone starts barking orders through a loudspeaker, into the street, into my windows. Guess I don't need an alarm clock anymore!

The laundromat up the block gave my clothes to the wrong person, who took FOUR days to realize they took the wrong batch of clothes and return them to the place.

As for why it took me 3 months to get online and post again... let's just say Time Warner Cable has got another thing coming (in the form of a somewhat hilarious forum post which will make fun of their sketchy employees, but probably not adversely affect the conglomerate in any tangible way).

anonymous

Dealing with Time Warner to get my broadband a couple weeks ago was the most absurd welcome to NYC. Everyone quoted a different price and then when I wanted to sign up would only give me the higher price-$59.99!
However, persistence paid off and I was able to finally to subdue the corporate beast and get my $29.99/mo net.

yavel

According to Wikipedia, the cutoff for Park Slope is roughly 4th Ave. I always thought of that area as the beginning of Gowanus.

raw

Nothing west of 4th Avenue is Park Slope. Welcome to the canal!

armchair_warrior

youre in the smelly canal area. aka gowanus.

street shooter

armchair_warrior wrote: youre in the smelly canal area. aka gowanus.

It doesn't really smell that bad here. Maybe it's the fact that you haven't taken a shower in a while. :twisted:

stacey

street shooter wrote: [quote=armchair_warrior]youre in the smelly canal area. aka gowanus.

It doesn't really smell that bad here. Maybe it's the fact that you haven't taken a shower in a while. :twisted:

LOL. Streetshooter when I was younger - when it would get hot you would smell the canal - we called it the South Brooklyn Perfume

street shooter

LOL. Streetshooter when I was younger - when it would get hot you would smell the canal - we called it the South Brooklyn Perfume

Stacey
I know what your saying but I just felt like ripping on armchair a little.

armchair_warrior

street shooter wrote: [quote=armchair_warrior]youre in the smelly canal area. aka gowanus.

It doesn't really smell that bad here. Maybe it's the fact that you haven't taken a shower in a while. :twisted:

but it still smells bad during t hose hot days when youre near it.

street shooter

armchair_warrior wrote: [quote=street shooter][quote=armchair_warrior]youre in the smelly canal area. aka gowanus.

It doesn't really smell that bad here. Maybe it's the fact that you haven't taken a shower in a while. :twisted:

but it still smells bad during t hose hot days when youre near it.

This is true.

livetotravel

Probably not by any historical definition - here's a blurb from Wired . . .
"
The slope of Park Slope descends gradually from northeast to southwest, leading to the terminology North Slope (from Flatbush Avenue to Union Street), Center Slope (from the south side of Union Street to Fifth or Sixth Streets) and South Slope beyond that. Residents of the southeastern part of the slope, near Prospect Park Southwest, know it as Windsor Terrace.

"Originally, everything south of Ninth Street was just `South Brooklyn,' " said Billy Stephens, senior vice president in the Brooklyn office of the Corcoran Group. "In the mid-70's Park Slope went as far as 15th Street. As time went on, the whole South Slope became `Park Slope.' "

Also a blurb from Gotham Gazette
http://gothamgazette.com/community/39/news/1349

anonymous

Z wrote: Well, here I am, 3 months later. If you want to believe the people who have been living on this block for decades, 7th street between 3rd and 4th avenue is indeed Park Slope. (Minus the yuppie density.)

I live across the street from a Chinese furniture warehouse. Two or three nights a week, at about 3AM a truck pulls up to unload/wake me up. At 9am another truck pulls up, someone starts barking orders through a loudspeaker, into the street, into my windows. Guess I don't need an alarm clock anymore!

The laundromat up the block gave my clothes to the wrong person, who took FOUR days to realize they took the wrong batch of clothes and return them to the place.

As for why it took me 3 months to get online and post again... let's just say Time Warner Cable has got another thing coming (in the form of a somewhat hilarious forum post which will make fun of their sketchy employees, but probably not adversely affect the conglomerate in any tangible way).

you're in gowanus mate.