What's the coolest name for a neighbourhood in your city?

[bryson662001]

Originally Posted by Capsule F

Philadelphia:
Manayunk
Strawberry Mansion
Queen Village
Spring Garden
Northern Liberties
Bella Vista

Yeah I will say personally that I have always thought Strawberry Mansion sounded awesome.
See Giovanni sasso's website Phillyskyline.com for more neighborhood names.

No one has mentioned Fishtown !

[mrherodotus]

Pittsburgh:

Mexican War Streets
Friendship
Beltzhoover
Seldom Seen

[muppet]

London you got:

Belgravia
Fitzrovia
Marylebone
Soho (the original)
Canada Water
Green Street Green
Seven Sisters
Swiss Cottage
Cyprus
West India Quay
Odessa Wharf
Canary Wharf
Gospel Oak
Arnos Grove
Dollis Hill
Mornington Crescent
The Wrythe
West Silvertown
All Saints
Boston Manor
Perivale
Chalfont & Latimer
Turnpike Lane (this is an area not a road)
Chancery Lane (likewise)
Snaresbrook
Elephant & Castle
Horselydown
Chalk Farm Estate
Harlesden
Brondesbury Park
Harrow-on-the-Hill
Island Gardens
Kings Cross St Pancras
Lambeth North
Lancaster Gate
Maida Vale
Pimlico
Piccadilly Circus
Ravenscourt Park
Pontoon Dock
Mudchute
Royal Holloway
Staines
Mill Hill East
Gallions Reach
White City
Morocco
East India
Kensington Olympia
Paternoster Square
Little Venice
Spitalfields
Millennium Village
Tobacco Dock
Execution Dock
Marble Arch
The Barbican
Bank
Monument
Isle of Dogs
Portobello
The City
London Bridge City
Cathedrals
Tower Hamlets
Richmond-upon-Thames
Esher
Worlds End

[Peanuthead]

The Isle of Dogs is one of my favorite but seems not to be widely used due to Canary Wharf being located on it.

[Boquillas]

For San Antonio:

Helotes (3 syllables)
Olmos Park (When I was a kid I thought it was called "almost park")
King William (changed from Kaiser Wilhelm)
Shavano Park
Balcones Heights (not "balconies," but "ball-cone-ess")
Southtown
China Grove (immortalized by the Doobie Brothers)
Kirby
Lago Vista
SW Military (more of street that lends its name to the area)
Hills and Dales (pronounced hilzendayuhls with the stress on the first syllable)
Grey Forest
Castle Hills

[Pillsbury Doughboy]

Augusta:
1. Frog Hollow (old-timers pronounce it "frogalla"
2. The Hill (aka Summerville, but no one calls it that)
3. National Hills (named after a golf course)

[eweezerinc]

Louisville has a few cool ones:

Pheonix Hill
Butchertown
Smoketown
Crescent Hill
Auburndale

[Teshadoh]

Originally Posted by realm0854

Atlanta :

Castleberry Hill
Buttermilk Bottoms
Peoplestown
Candler Park
Sweet Auburn
Cascade Heights
Reynoldstown
Poncey Highlands
Mechanicsville
Joyland

I think Cabbagetown is a cool name - but Buttermilk Bottoms no longer exists, it is a historic neighborhood though.

[Cleveland Brown]

Detroit

Poletown (a bit racist considering it was named for a Polish neighborhood)
Corktown
Black Bottom
Paradise Valley
Indian Village
Cass Corridor
New Center
Kranz Woods

[pico44]

New York does have some good ones.

Flatbush
Hell's Kitchen
Red Hook
Cypress Hill
Bed-Stuy
Grenwich Village
Brighton Beach
Bushwick
Pelham Bay
Rockaway
Sheepshead Bay
Jamaica
Woodhaven

The Borough names are my favorite,

Brooklyn
Manhattan
The Bronx

But the most famous of all locations is one that is used around the world to describe any central cluster of buildings or business activity,

Downtown

[pj3000]

^ Hell's Kitchen... the coolest neighborhood name, hands down.

[BANGAROO BOY]

Here in Sydney my 2 favorite neighborhood names are:

Woolloomooloo & Woollarhra

[Xelebes]

Originally Posted by BANGAROO BOY

Here in Sydney my 2 favorite neighborhood names are:

Woolloomooloo & Woollarhra

We should just exempt every Australian city from this discussion because they will always trump North Americans and Europeans (sans the Polish) with their wacky names.

[trueviking]

buckhead is my favourite so far.

no good ones in winipeg...a lot of neighbourhoods are saint based.

st. james
st. vital
st. boniface
st. norbert

i guess the 'exchange district' is our most unique name.

[SHiRO]

Originally Posted by pico44

New York does have some good ones.

Flatbush
Hell's Kitchen
Red Hook
Cypress Hill
Bed-Stuy
Grenwich Village
Brighton Beach
Bushwick
Pelham Bay
Rockaway
Sheepshead Bay
Jamaica
Woodhaven

The Borough names are my favorite,

Brooklyn
Manhattan
The Bronx

But the most famous of all locations is one that is used around the world to describe any central cluster of buildings or business activity,

Downtown

New York neighbourhoods with Dutch name origens:

Harlem (named after the city of Haarlem)
Brooklyn (named after the town of Breukelen)
Flushing (named after the city of Vlissingen)
New Utrecht (named after the city of Utrecht)
Staten Island (Staten Eylandt, after the States General, how the Dutch parliament at the time was called)
Coney Island (Conyne Eylandt --> konijnen eiland --> rabbit island)
Gravesend (grafe ende --> the end of the grove)
Flatbush (Vladbos --> wooded land)
Bushwick (Boswijck --> little town in the woods)
The Bowery (de bouwerij --> de boerderij --> the farm)

[pico44]

Originally Posted by SHiRO

New York neighbourhoods with Dutch name origens:

Harlem (named after the city of Haarlem)
Brooklyn (named after the town of Breukelen)
Flushing (named after the city of Vlissingen)
New Utrecht (named after the city of Utrecht)
Staten Island (Staten Eylandt, after the States General, how the Dutch parliament at the time was called)
Coney Island (Conyne Eylandt --> konijnen eiland --> rabbit island)
Gravesend (grafe ende --> the end of the grove)
Flatbush (Vladbos --> wooded land)
Bushwick (Boswijck --> little town in the woods)
The Bowery (de bouwerij --> de boerderij --> the farm)

Please pardon my spelling but just to add to your point, The Bronx was named after a Dutch farmer named Jonas Bronk. And Broadway was an old Indian trail originally named Breudwey (sp?) by Dutch settlers. New Amsterdam is very much a city of Dutch heritage. The English had little to do other than change the city's name and get out of the way of the destined beheamoth that is New York.

[SHiRO]

Originally Posted by pico44

Please pardon my spelling but just to add to your point, The Bronx was named after a Dutch farmer named Jonas Bronk. And Broadway was an old Indian trail originally named Breudwey (sp?) by Dutch settlers. New Amsterdam is very much a city of Dutch heritage. The English had little to do other than change the city's name and get out of the way of the destined beheamoth that is New York.

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.

[Chicago Shawn]

Originally Posted by Peanuthead

Sorry, I know a lot of these are just streets but I just had to post this...

100 Rudest Place Names in Britain, Top 20

Turkey Cock Lane Copford, Colchester, Essex
Cocks, Cornwall
Minge Lane, Worcestershire
Bell End, Birmingham
Twatt, Orkney and Shetland
Sandy Balls, a long-established holiday centre in New Forest Hampshire with a name dating back to Henry VIII
Muff, Northern Ireland
Fingringhoe, Essex ....My favorite!
Back Passage, City of London, an alleyway in the EC1 postal district
Shitterton, Dorset
Slag Lane, Merseyside, a residential street in Haydock
Hole of Horcum, North York Moors
Fanny Hands Lane, Lincolnshire
Inchinnan Drive, Renfrewshire
Cock Head, North York Moors
Cockshoot Close, Oxfordshire
Fanny Avenue, Derbyshire
Beaver Close, Surrey
Dick Court, Lanarkshire
Lickfold, West Sussex

Oh dear God, I think I just burst my splean after reading that.

[Xelebes]

Originally Posted by SHiRO

New York neighbourhoods with Dutch name origens:

Harlem (named after the city of Haarlem)
Brooklyn (named after the town of Breukelen)
Flushing (named after the city of Vlissingen)
New Utrecht (named after the city of Utrecht)
Staten Island (Staten Eylandt, after the States General, how the Dutch parliament at the time was called)
Coney Island (Conyne Eylandt --> konijnen eiland --> rabbit island)
Gravesend (grafe ende --> the end of the grove)
Flatbush (Vladbos --> wooded land)
Bushwick (Boswijck --> little town in the woods)
The Bowery (de bouwerij --> de boerderij --> the farm)

Coney Island means Coney Island, not Rabbit Island. Coney was the original English word for a rabbit or a hare.

[SHiRO]

Originally Posted by Xelebes

Coney Island means Coney Island, not Rabbit Island. Coney was the original English word for a rabbit or a hare.

You're not getting it.
Conyn is the old Dutch word for rabbit (now konijn), who do you think named it so?

The English word coney is actually derived from the French word conil, as is probably the Dutch word for it.