Neighborhood Names

By Matt Chaban 8/10/11 5:08pm

It takes a village/Village idiot/CKCKCKCKCKC!!!MR!NJRNUIOFNOGINIO@N!PIGN

The East Village Now Stretches to 20th Street and Avenue C

Neighborhoods in New York have always been fungible. Names change or are invented out of thin air, acronyms, and nearby landmarks. Borders shift like tectonic plates—slowly, imperceptibly, then, in a city-shaking tremor, all at once. We all pretend to hate it, but we live with it, quietly profiting off it all. This is a town singularly obsessed with real estate, after all. So who can really blame Rose Associates for pushing the boundaries of the East Village? Read More

By Matt Chaban 7/25/11 9:30am

Hood Winked

Help Us Name a Swath of Midtown!

We tend to make fun of people for this sort of thing, but it’s true—there’s a major New York City neighborhood very much in need of a name. This is not some failed attempt at gentrifying outer Brooklyn or the points south in the Bronx (it’s called Riverdale!). This is an honest-to-god neighborhood, or at least it’s about to be one when it has all those towers dropped on its head. Read More

By Matt Chaban 12/08/10 6:22pm

Name Game

CanDo Won’tDo: Marketer Comes Up With a Name Worse Than Tribeca

Seeing as how downtown is where it’s at these days, does the area really need a new moniker to spice things up? At least one local thinks so, according to the Daily News:

“The only reason people stay here is if they have business on Wall St. or they’re looking for a Read More

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The East Village Now Stretches to 20th Street and Avenue C

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CanDo Won’tDo: Marketer Comes Up With a Name Worse Than Tribeca

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