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Old Posted Apr 14, 2007, 7:41 AM
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I'm thinking it's an Iberian root word.
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Interesting didn't know that. Upon researching Jonas Bronk was actually a Swede living in Holland who went to America with his Dutch wife.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Bronck

Broadway was originally called Breede weg, which simply means broad way.

The history of New Amsterdam/New York is fascinating.

Cool, thanks for the additional information. If I'm not mistaken--in the picture you posted--the wall on the northern edge of the city (right side of the picture) is the wall the Dutch built to protect their trading post from the native Americans. Once the city expanded they tore down the wall and put a street there. They called it Wall Street. Pretty neat eh?
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Old Posted Apr 15, 2007, 2:24 PM
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More for New York: College Point, Vinegar Hill, Cobble Hill, Astoria.
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Old Posted Apr 15, 2007, 8:25 PM
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San Francisco;

Visitacion Valley
Portola District
Corona Heights
Lone Mountain
Sherwood Forest

I always liked those names.

Also, it's weird how some neighborhoods you put "the" in front of, and others no. But I also came to the conclusion that most of those neighborhoods with "the" in front of them are single word places

for instance "the mission" "the tenderloin" "the sunset" "the excelsior"

while neighborhoods with two words tend to not use "the"

for instance "crocker amazon" "potrero hill" "glen park"
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South Bend -

Rum Village
Northshore Triangle
Sunnymede
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Old Posted May 4, 2007, 11:09 PM
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Here are some from Minneapolis that I like:

Lyndale (hence my name)
Lowry Hill East (The Wedge)
Lowry Hill
Kenwood
Loring Park
Loring Heights
Stevens Square
Kingfield
Tangletown
Bryn Mawr
Audubon Park
Beltrami
Cedar-Isles-Dean
Cedar Riverside
Diamond Lake
East Isles
East Harriet
East Calhoun
Linden Hills
Logan Park
Keewaydin
Elliot Park
Lynnhurst
Marcy-Holmes
Marshall Terrace
Nicollet Island
East Bank (University of MN)
West Bank (University of MN)
North Loop
Powderhorn Park
Shingle Creek
Ventura Village (named after the wrestler/former governor)
Waite Park
Wenonah
Windom Park

Wow, I didn't realize I liked so many....the rest are all pretty bland.
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Woolsey Dip -- a residential neighborhood with a two-block long commercial district named for a low spot on Merrimon Avenue.

Emma -- the city's most diverse neighborhood. I like the name because it's simple, but evocative. Who was Emma, anyway?

Head of Montford -- a small area at the end of Montford Ave

Manor Grounds -- The Manor Hotel was one of the city's most elegant hotels in its day, and on the hotel grounds were several rental cottages. The hotel is now an apartment building, and cottages are cozy homes. Together they make up the Manor Grounds neighborhood.

Town Mountain -- an area of Beaucatcher Mountain where mansions look down on downtown Asheville. This is also where two of Asheville's four castles -- Zealandia and Seely's Castle -- are located.

Beaverdam -- a pedestrian name for an upscale area of North Asheville. It features mansions overlooking Beaver Lake. The name predates the lake, which was created in the 1920's, however.

St. Dunstan's -- a residential area near the several blocks of hospitals and doctor's offices that make up the Medical District.

South Slope -- a large area of a few dozen blocks spilling downhill from downtown all the way to the Medical District. It's ripe for redevelopment as downtown expands. All the biggest residential high-rises (five of them ranging from 15 stories to 28 stories), have been proposed here over the past year. This is also where the city's historic baseball stadium is located.

Hillcrest, Deaverview, Pisgah View, Lee Walker Heights, Klondike -- innocuous neighborhood names that could even be very pretty if it were not for the fact that these are the city's most dangerous neighborhoods. They prove our weird tendency to give the worst neighborhoods the best names.

When you get away from the city you find even more unique names for communities in Buncombe County, including:

Jugtown
Juno
Venable
Sandy Mush
Black Mountain
Forks of Ivy
Jupiter
Owltown
Flat Top
Graphite
Dendron
Old Fort
Democrat
Craggy
New Bridge


Hands down though, the best community names in the metro area come from Henderson County, which contains the smaller, boring and ugly half of the Asheville-Hendersonville metro area. Some of the more noteworthy names in Henderson County include:

Bat Cave
Bearwallow
Zirconia
World's Edge
Point Lookout
Horse Shoe
Flat Rock
Lake Summit
Upward
Green Meadows
-- a pleasant name for the very worst neighborhood of Hendersonville. If someone dies prematurely in the city, that's where they do it, almost invariably.

And my personal favorite...

Matilda's Folly -- This is an area in the western part of the county, that my father's family comes from. The community is named for a tombstone whose only inscription reads "Matilda's Folly." The area around Matilda's Folly is known as The Follies because of its very rough terrain, which used to eat hikers and campers for breakfast, some of whom were never found. This is changing though, as the area is developed into submission with golf courses and enormous houses for Floridian retirees who believe in their heart that the very best way to enjoy natural beauty is to clearcut it and build a house on it. I don't ever go back there because the destruction is too heartrending to look at.
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Old Posted May 5, 2007, 4:29 PM
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Sacramento neighborhoods:

Alkalai Flats (Old downtown neighborhod, lots of victorians)

Rancho Cordova
(also racially referred to as "Rancid Cambodia" because of a pocket of southast asian neighborhoods).

Citrus Heights

Lavender Heights (Gay District)

Del Paso Heights

Fair Oaks

Orangevale

North Highlands

Whiskey Hill

Greenhaven

The Pocket (a huge bend in the Sacramento River, creating a Pocket of very nice homes)
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atlanta..cabbagetown. which happens to be one of the most neat neighborhoods in the world also.
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St. Dunstan's -- a residential area near the several blocks of hospitals and doctor's offices that make up the Medical District.
Medical District? Sounds like quite the ghetto.
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My favorite nhood names for nashville are Bordeaux and Cameron Trimble.
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Old Posted May 5, 2007, 6:31 PM
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Toronto:

I like the "The" neighbourhoods...
The Annex
The Danforth
The Junction
The Kingsway
The Beach

others I like:
High Park
Long Branch
Runnymede
Islington
Kensington
Tam O'Shanter
Cabbagetown
Trinity-Bellwoods
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Old Posted May 5, 2007, 6:35 PM
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For Ottawa my favourites would be:

Heart's Desire
Golden Triangle
Sandy Hill
Bells Corners
Skyline
Country Place
Parkway Park
Katimavik
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Medical District? Sounds like quite the ghetto.
Well, you'll see the same number of Hummers and Lexuses, but the dealers are selling different drugs than those in Hillcrest and Pisgah View. The Medical District is 11 or so blocks of HMO-licious hospital goodness. Can't you just taste the lime Jell-O just thinking about it?
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Well, you'll see the same number of Hummers and Lexuses, but the dealers are selling different drugs than those in Hillcrest and Pisgah View. The Medical District is 11 or so blocks of HMO-licious hospital goodness. Can't you just taste the lime Jell-O just thinking about it?
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Buffalo's cool-sounding neighborhood names:

Allentown
Fruit Belt
Black Rock
Iron Island
Lovejoy
Old First Ward
University Heights
Kaisertown
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Old Posted May 5, 2007, 10:42 PM
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Oh yeah, I also got to mention Poundmaker with Skyrattler for Edmonton.

And which other city in North America has neighbourhoods with Ukrainian names? Ozerna "Lake-land" and another one named after a castle in Ukraine. K, yeah, I know there are a few Odessas out there but they are towns.
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Winnipeg has a few cool ones:

New Jerusalem (lost)
Black Belt/The Loop (lost)
North End
West End
West Broadway
Osborne Village (commonly refered to as The Village)

The city's most posh suburb is named Tuxedo
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I liked the name my neighbourhood in Toronto: Seaton Village. Also the one directly west: Christie Pits. There are so many great names for neighbourhoods in the city. Moss Park, anyone?

In Calgary, the suburbs are full of evocative nonsense that came out of marketing brochures (we can have many threads on stupid names for subdivisions), but there are some gems in older communities:
Cliff Bungalow (my favourite!)
Connaught
Spruce Cliff
Shaganappi
Rosscarrock
Rideau Park
Kelvin Grove
Regal Terrace
Tuxedo (my second favourite)
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