Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Name the New York Way

Here in New York, cool and hip neighborhoods are al about trendy names. Why, you ask? Because a cool and trendy name helps in boosting real estate values. Ask New Yorkers where they come from and you hear fancy stuff like RAMBO (Right After the Manhattan Bridge Overpass). Huh? You know, right before DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass)!

Since, space is NYC is always an issue, we simply like renaming locales to make them sound hip.

Manhattan has long had regions like SoHo and NoHo (South and North of Houston Street), NoLiTa and SoLiTa (North and South of Little Italy). But what if you go west? Will you discover an over developed LoLiTa? Or will you just run into under developed TriBeCa? Manhattanites have learned to take such cool neighborhood acronyms in their stride.

While the B train rides you through the exotic lands of BoCoCa (Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens), may I humbly suggest names for humdrum places like Flushing as FLOMO? and Borough Park as BOPA? And how about a special neighborhood called ARTSY (area restricted to the single and young)?

Per recent real estate news, South Bronx in Manhattan is one of the best places to buy investment properties in the US. Oops, did I say the South Bronx? You know I really meant SoBro :P
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