How about living in WiNo (or Williamsburg North)?
In the third season of how I Met Your Mother , a marshall and lily they decided to move to a flat just the two of them. Searching for a flat in New York is a big nightmare, but they quickly find the flat of their dreams in an increasingly fashionable area of the city called, DoWiSeTrePla . With the tendency to abbreviate the names of the neighborhoods in the city, they never consider what those syllables corresponded to. Until they figure it out and everything makes sense: DoWiSeTrePla comes from DownWind of the SEwage TREatment PLANt . That is, downwind of the wastewater treatment plant. AHA. That explains the smell, and the cheap price of the apartment.
That episode aired eight years ago and the craze for abbreviating neighborhood names has only gotten worse in New York.
MiMa, that is: Midtown Manhattan
WHY DO THEY DO IT?
Some say they believe some sense of community in the neighborhood . Usually, they are created by the neighbors themselves and it is an affectionate way of calling the place where they live and recognizing each other.
Sometimes, too, it's just a practical matter : **Prospect Lefferts Gardens (Brooklyn) ** is too long for any form, why not just say “ I live in plg ”.
Other times, very rarely, they shorten the names by aspiration, because they want to believe that they belong to another neighborhood. What Hellsea , acronym for Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea , created by the residents of Hell's Kitchen who would prefer to live in Chelsea, a much more affluent neighborhood.
Neighbors of BoCoCa
And other times, the most, it is a perfectly orchestrated marketing operation by the powerful real estate agencies that know how well they worked. Soho or Nolita . In the case of the first, so well that not everyone knows that it comes from “ South of Houston ” (South of Houston Street) .
It sounds so cool to say you live in Soho or Nolita, why wouldn't it be cool to say you live in DUMBO? One of those names that was created to attract artists and bohemians with pasta to the area Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass (under the overpass of the Manhattan Bridge) and that, moreover, it has worked.
NoLita, just like SoHo, they have worked
WHAT ARE THE CRAZIEST NEIGHBORHOODS?
If DUMBO already sounded somewhat childish and even cheesy, although none of those adjectives characterize the neighborhood (except for the great merry-go-round Jane on the edge of the East River). It is nothing compared to the last fever in which incredible names have appeared. The preferred one? RAMBO , Abbreviation of Right Around the Manhattan Bridge Overpass (Around Right of the Manhattan Bridge overpass) , come on, across from DUMBO, in Brooklyn.
is also FiDi , the new way of calling Financial District (the south of the island of Manhattan), which is recovering a certain glamor and life with the inauguration of the WTC and the Seaport District . Y WinNo , as they call the hipsters who can't live in Williamsburg and live in Williamsburg North.
DUMBO, Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass
SoBro it's what they're starting to call the **South of Bronx**.
SpaHa it is the Spanish Harlem, the Latin part to the east of the island. And the west has not wanted to be left behind and is shortened as SoHa (South Harlem). And a little higher is wahi, Washington Heights.
Hellsea is the most aspirational, but they also say WelSea to refer to West Chelsea, the part of the artistic neighborhood closest to the Hudson River. And just below, there are those who call MePa to the Meatpacking District.
In the city center, it is already practically generalized nomad (North of Madison Square), and beginning to be used My ma for Midtown Manhattan; Y NoMid , North Midtown.
Spanish Harlem or SpaHa
Craziness? Wait till you see what they do in Brooklyn. DUMBO and RAMBO are the most movie buffs, of course . But then there are the practical ones like PLG , Prospect Lefferts Gardens, which they say would have been used as early as the 1960s, but had not been settled until now. Then this do bro ,Downtown Brooklyn. And finally, the acronyms that even unite several neighborhoods into one. The trend without borders. In this category would be: BoCoCa , linking Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens. Y ProCro , the conjunction of Crown Heights and Prospect Heights.
*If you have read it in Spanish, with a Spanish accent, it is much more ridiculous than it already seems.
BoCoCa, the union of Boerum Hills, Cobble Hill and Carrol Gardens
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