JVNY says the South Slope is becoming condo city. The subtitle of Jeremiahs blog is: The Book of Lamentations: a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct.

Here’s an excerpt. Read more here.

Park Slope’s South Slope, for example, is rapidly becoming condo-ized. Over the past year, at astonishing speed, sleepy little blocks long made up of working-class, aluminum-sided townhouses, brick and tar-paper tenements have been systematically leveled and rebuilt to look like the rest of the former city.