ProHo

I've lived near the ever shifting line between Prospect Heights and Crown Heights for most of my life. And I can tell you right now, that no self-respecting individual from my community has ever called this area, that we have always called home, by the obnoxious acronym "ProHo".

Instead, I suggest we return to a name that has been bandied about for years here by us (real) residents of the Heights communities.... "Pro-Hi". This of course means that we are from Prospect Heights, and also it means that we are in support of people saying hello to each other.

If you thought it was meant as some kind of sophomoric play on words about drug use... for shame. It has nothing to do with that.

And please, tell me why it is that we have decided to mimic the lazy shortening of words that so thrills the Manhattanites? SoHo, NoHo, NoLita, LowLita, TriBeCa, UWS, UES, LES... etc. etc. etc. (Don't bother to point out to me that "etc." is an abbreviation, I am already aware of the irony.)

Do we want to follow in the footsteps of the debauched and braindead hipsters in DUMBO? Is that where we want this community to go? Where are our values? Where are our aesthetic leaders of good taste? I know I am not alone in these musings.... so please, stop with the Pro-Ho, and from now on when you meet people and they ask you where you live, extend your hand, smile wide, and say proudly, "I'm Pro-Hi."