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A Hip Name For Crown Heights — Brooklynian

A Hip Name For Crown Heights

anonymous
anonymous
edited November -1 in Crown Heights/Prospect Lefferts Gardens
What are all these hip names I hear when talking about Crown Heights:

Crown Heights: CroHei
Crown Heights South: CroSo
Crown Heights North: CroNO

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  • anonymous
    anonymous
    Anonymous wrote: What are all these hip names I hear when talking about Crown Heights:

    Crown Heights: CroHei
    Crown Heights South: CroSo
    Crown Heights North: CroNO
    how about.... CROWN HEIGHTS??
    Please, we don't need any cute little names to remove the history of the hood...
  • oiseau
    oiseau
    EOR

    East of Ratner.
  • armchair_warrior
    armchair_warrior
    crown heights is cool enough.
  • bojolais
    bojolais
    I actually love EOR
  • buffalo
    buffalo
    Heightster...that's so sad. Who have you been talking to?
  • whatchuwant
    whatchuwant
    Don't go hipsterizing my hood, now....leave it be, brothaman.
  • leeho
    leeho
    How about DoNaTHeNeHo = Dont Name The NeighborHood.
  • hal
    hal

    Subject: Re: A Hip Name For Crown Heights

    Crown Heights sounds right to me too.
  • kenieva
    kenieva
    Crown Heights, Crown Heights, Crown Heights
  • littleredmenace
    littleredmenace
    Yeah, cutesy neighborhood names make me want to punch people in the face. The people who actually use them, that is.

    And what's with the word "nabe"?? Are there two many syllables in the word "neighborhood"? Or do we spend so much time sending text messages to people that we now have to write in abbreviations?

    Sorry - I haven't had any coffee yet. O:)
  • anonymous
    anonymous
    you right: the reno in my nabe or total retro. oif course the hood....
  • jocelyn
    jocelyn
    THE CROWN. good? no? lol....

    >>LittleRedMenace, yes there are too many letters in neighborhood to type and say. that's just the way of the future.
  • littleredmenace
    littleredmenace
    Then the future is a terrible place!

    Actually, I should talk as I typed "two" instead of "too". I mean, obviously I know the difference (or should I say "dif"?). It pays to reread something before posting it.

    I'll accept "nabe" if I have to, but I will punch anyone in the face who uses the term "micronabe" in my presence. Well actually, I'll probably just laugh.
  • doctorj
    doctorj
    LittleRedMenace wrote:
    Actually, I should talk as I typed "two" instead of "too".
    I thought that 'two many syllables' in three-syllabled 'neighborhood' was apt.
  • littleredmenace
    littleredmenace
    Actually, I thought that as well upon looking at it again. But I can't lie - I didn't do it intentionally. I'm not as clever that early in the morning.
  • doctorj
    doctorj
    So back to the topic: anyone for "Crow Hill"?
  • whatchuwant
    whatchuwant
    No- where's the "hill" you're referring to?
    I don't mind The Crown, though.....it could grow on me.
    Funny though, in certain circles (hip hop) Franklin and Bedford Aves are called F A Rock and Bed Rock , respectively. There's even t-shirts! .....pretty freakin cool, if you ask me.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    The Crown just makes me think of these car air fresheners from the 90s.
    image
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: THE HOOD

    Crow Hill - that’s what our neighborhood was called. Real estate people wanted to attract ppl to the area so they changed the name to Crown Heights.
    . PLG area was once called pig town.

    How about Crow Town ? lol
  • dmiami
    dmiami
    Don't know if this is the right place to ask, but..... who knows where/what is Rugby / Weeksville / Wingate ???
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: Crown Heights

    It's impossible to "create" a hip name. It must be born on its own, something that happens naturally. Like any good nickname, a "hip" neighborhood name suggests itself. Crown Heights is wonderful. You can't make it any hipper, man.
  • homeowner
    homeowner
    Don't know if this is the right place to ask, but..... who knows where/what is Rugby / Weeksville / Wingate ???
    Weeksville is east of Crown Heights. I think of it as being the area directly north of the Albany Projects. In my mind its a pretty small neighborhood being directly adjacent to the Weeksville Heritage Center, but I don't think that was always the case. I get the sense that the area that was historically known as Weeksville is extremely large (kind of like Bed-Stuy is now) and may have included parts of what is now East NY, Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy.

    Rugby/Wingate is south of CH proper. Not really sure of the dimensions but I'd say its between Empire and Beverly and from Brooklyn Ave over to, say, Rodgers. I think of Rugby/Wingate as being smaller areas of the neighborhood otherwise known as Flatbush.
  • capt. planet
    capt. planet
    I get the sense that the area that was historically known as Weeksville is extremely large (kind of like Bed-Stuy is now) and may have included parts of what is now East NY, Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy.
    I once had an appraiser tell me that what I knew as North Crown Heights was actually Weeksville. This was an old timer, must have been in his 70's.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    I'm not sure what the boundaries of Wingate are, but I don't think it ends at Brooklyn Ave, because Wingate Field, home of the Martin Luther King Jr concert series is between Brooklyn and Kingston on Winthrop (across from Kings County Hospital).
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