Nickname your neighborhood

Zip codes have NOTHING to do with neighborhoods or their names...

I am a big fan of ProCroHo, I've started using it to describe where I live. St. John btwn Classon and Franklin.
Though we could call it Prime Heights: the people are nice and the price is right......too corny?

Anonymous wrote: Call the neighborhood by it's real name and don't be a douche.

Hey, no name-calling, mister. Or missy.

But thanks for my first opportunity to do something Moderatorly!

ProCroHo is for reals, y'all!

Well, kinda.

NY Mag published an article today calling Washington to Frankin, Atlantic to EP... Pro-Crown Heights ("Park Slope in 1991")

New York's Next Neighborhoods feature found here.

I saw that. What do you think the author(s) meant by "Park Slope 1991"? Cheap housing? Edgy? No strollers? All of the above? I couldn't decide.

Given that I was in suburban Massachusetts in 1991, and watching the evening news on WPIX or WOR meant making bets on just how many drive-bys would be reported that day, I would say that this might not necessarily be a good thing.

If it's anything like my remembrance of Park Slope, 1992, it's "charmingly hip yet residential and somewhat affordable."

My own place in Park Slope at the time was on 5th Ave and 1st Street. I had people tell me to my face that I did not live in Park Slope, that Park Slope stopped at 7th Avenue. Now, of course, right around the corner from my old building is Blue Ribbon Brooklyn and Great Lakes, and it's considered "prime center Slope." So I take all this "it's not Prospect Heights!" talk with a grain of real-estate salt.

(I do hope, however, that in the intervening years, my old building has cleared out the cockroaches. Probably not...)

Anonymous said:

<p class="post-subject"><span class="post-subject-header">Subject:</span> I like calling Crown Heights Crown Heights

The feeling a name invokes is related to the associations of each individual. To many, Crown Heights has a stigma attached by the infamous riot. Corcoran doesn't list it. To find properties on their website you have to select 'other Brooklyn'. Someday when all of Crown Heights is prettied up, the name will invoke feelings of comfort, charm and community for all its residents and those who merely admire its stately streets and grand architecture.

Crown Heights doen't need an acronym. Call it what it is.

The only alternative I like is 'The Heights of Crown'

FYI, Corcoran does list Crown Heights. Sometimes the default setting of "Other Brooklyn" is not detected by some "not too swift" brokers who don't have the sense to put in the correct neighborhood. It's one of those glitches that we've complaining about for years.