neighborhood question

teddyballgame · May 2006

so my friend was telling me that his friend is having a party in "Park Slope," on 23rd St. between 3rd and 4th. Obviously something here struck me as wrong, but I couldn't tell him what neighborhood that really is. I know people here tend to be pretty neighborhood-name savvy (I also know that neighborhood names are pretty silly since it's all Brooklyn, I just hate when people use the name of the neighborhood they'd rather be in instead of the one they're in).
Is that Sunset Park? I hear a lot of people throwing "South Slope" around these days, is that there?

jack krohn · May 2006

Take your pick:

South Slope
Sunset Park
Greenwood Heights

Though choosing #3 will probably invite castration (just read the archives on chowhound.com), I have heard the area to which you refer called all of the above at one time or another.

tony balls · May 2006

Sunset Park

South Slope and Greenwood heights are realtor terms.

idlewild · May 2006

I thought that was the Gowanus area. Doesn't Sunset start on 39th or 40th?

chrispy · May 2006

Kind of murky, but definitely NOT Park Slope and not South Slope either.

Decent Neighborhood map here:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/neighbor/neigh.shtml

stacey · May 2006

I always did, and still call it Park Slope - to me Sunset Park starts at 34th Street. Im sure some of us still call is South Brooklyn. If it was a couple avenues up I might have said Windsor Terrace

apollonia666 · May 2006

When I lived on 22nd between 7th and 8th, my roommates and I always referred to it as The Buttcrack of Greenwood. Does that help?

drano · May 2006

If you look at that map, my in-laws until recently lived in #15, in that big 'ol unnamed void bordered by Marine Park, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay and Manhattan whatever. The area never had a "name" as such - at least according to them and other neighborhood denizens, but this situation could not be tolerated by the local realtors. So they came up with this: Victorian Flatbush. I hope they didn't spend too much money on focus groups and stuff.

armchair_warrior · May 2006

Sunset Park
Greenwood Heights

i go with either one of these! but never park slope.

when i was trying to find something in park slope like 4 years ago to buy. the realtor try to sell me that area is park slope and i'm like dude! i make a living driving folks things around nyc and i lived here for over 20 years. its not freaking park slope!

tony balls · May 2006

I already put in my two cents on this, so i'm just here to say this:

Big ups to the BIG BLACK!!!

blackoyster · May 2006

Can we come to the party?

vanilla · May 2006

shouldn't some mod move this post to the PS board?

or are we all trying to avoid anonymous guest posting?! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

diane · May 2006

Subject: Skateboard Park

I'm just wondering if the party is being held at what was once an
indoor skateboard park that closed. I heard that two entrepreneurs
took it over and are using it as a venue to have parties. Is this
the place?

anonymous · May 2006

Jack Krohn wrote:
South Slope
Sunset Park
Greenwood Heights

DUNGEON (Down UNder the Gowanus Expy ONramp)

carnivore · May 2006

Anonymous wrote: [quote=Jack Krohn]
South Slope
Sunset Park
Greenwood Heights

DUNGEON (Down UNder the Gowanus Expy ONramp)
Nice! I bet pensodyssey can get behind that one!

yavel · August 2006

That's Sunset Park. Greenwood Heights is closer to the cemetery.

anonymous · August 2006

apollonia666 wrote: When I lived on 22nd between 7th and 8th, my roommates and I always referred to it as The Buttcrack of Greenwood. Does that help?

That is hysterical!

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