Park Slope! Colored!!
Hilarious how Park Slope was a "Colored!" neighborhood when they made this film, and it now almost 100% White, Rich-ish Yuppies now. Our Hero, Elgar, should have bought himself 100 more buildings.
shareHahaha I was laughing at that too. Do you think they filmed it there? Was Park Slope Mostly black back then???
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Thanks for this. I actually lived between 5th & 6th and, yes, there was a lot of soul spirit there. But I swear it looks like they filmed in Harlem!
shareIt was filmed at 51 Prospect Pl between 5th Ave and 6th Ave.
Park Slope was very mixed, white, black & Hispanic, in the 60's, 70's and 80's. 7th Ave was very mixed and 6th and 5th Ave was mainly Black and Hispanic.
The actual brownstone is located at 51 Prospect Pl closer to 6th Ave. NYC is a city of constant change. And yes, Park Slope, as many neighborhoods in NYC, has gone through quite a change from being once elegant, then a ghetto, to now more middle to upper middle class community.
The film The Landlord, was correct in it's portrait of the late 60's Park Slope.
Thank you for the address. I compared the google maps street view shot to the house in the film, and they are definitely one and the same. :) Amazing how those brownstones can be fixed up. Add some trees and voilà, you have yourself an upscale neighborhood.
google maps street view link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51+Prospect+Pl&hl=en&ll=40.67961 1,-73.976035&spn=0.000818,0.002779&sll=40.672493,-73.977417&am p;sspn=0.007275,0.011115&vpsrc=6&gl=us&t=h&z=19&la yer=c&cbll=40.679669,-73.976185&panoid=0Gmh7Gp6oBqffkOo4fX7ig& amp;cbp=12,48.67,,1,0.99
elgar should have used copee's axe to knock down a few walls, fix things up.
You stay classy, San Diego.