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

[Xelebes]

What is it?

In Edmonton, the coolest one I think is Skyrattler. Rapperswil is kinda cool too but Skyrattler really caught my eye as I was looking through the city map.

[Steely Dan]

my favorite chicago neighborhood names are "back of the yards" and "ravenswood". "back of the yards" just gets shortened into "backadayards".

one annoying thing about chicago neighborhoods names is that WAY too many of them are named after parks - lincoln park, portage park, hyde park, rogers park, marquette park, albany park, wicker park, garfield park, jefferson park, humboldt park and on and on. it's unoriginal and repetitive.

[Peanuthead]

In Edinburgh cant really think of any that stand out but in Glasgow there are too many to choose from...

Cowcaddens
Haghill
Yoker
Croftfoot
Bellahouston
Nitshill
Ibrox
Gorbals

But my absolute favorite is ...

Crossmyloof

[Xelebes]

one annoying thing about chicago neighborhoods names is that WAY too many of them are named after parks - lincoln park, portage park, hyde park, rogers park, marquette park, albany park, wicker park, garfield park, jefferson park, humboldt park and on and on. it's unoriginal and repetitive.


Edmonton has a common suffix too - "wood".

Lakewood (supposedly a shallow lake was there, more typically a slough, though.)
Knottwood (named after a former mayor)
Lynnwood (there is a lynn in this neighbourhood)
Elmwood
Crestwood (It is on a slight hill overlooking downtown and Hawrelak Park)
Callingwood
Norwood (is just north of downtown, so one must assume it is actually in the north)
Westwood
Eastwood
Southwood

[Xelebes]

But my absolute favorite is ...

Crossmyloof

That is a great one.

[raggedy13]

I always liked the name of the Kitsilano or "Kits" neighbourhood in Vancouver. Other ones I like the name of include Strathcona, Gastown, Killarney, and Kerrisdale. Perhaps Shaugnessy as well.

[pj3000]

Not my city, but I always thought Philadelphia's "Manayunk" and "Strawberry Mansion" were pretty cool.

[Xelebes]

Not my city, but I always thought Philadelphia's "Manayunk" and "Strawberry Mansion" were pretty cool.

Manayunk sounds like Edmonton's "Meyonohk".

Strawberry Mansion just sounds cool. It sticks out.

[Jeff_in_Dayton]

Louisville used to have Lake Dreamland. Which was anything but.

[Jeff_in_Dayton]

The two funniest Ive heard in Dayton are two early postwar subdivions.

One, on a hill on Rahn Road, with a view, was called Rahn-Day-View Acres.

The other, self expanatory, was Upsan Downs.

[amfleisch]

a couple more chicago...

southshore, hegewisch, edgewater, and beverly hills.


because i am very german ive always like the name over the rhine in cincinnatti.

[simms3]

well in Jacksonville it would have to be my neighborhood of Ortega. While us locals call it ort-ee-ga, i think people moving to the city think there is something special about it so they call it with the Spanish pronuciation. After all I guess it is named after some Spanish explorer who bought the land and had some sugar cane or something operation on it (it is an island/peninsula).

After Ortega comes next door Avondale, then San Marco, and San Jose. I like the Spanish names for neighborhoods and think they are cool and uncommon in America. A section of the Northside is aptly nicknamed Da Bang'em because of all the murders that take place very often.

[Peanuthead]

Of course in Edinburgh it has to be the Portobello, stolen from a place in South America apparently

[sf_eddo]

San Francisco's neighborhoods are often named by geographic distinction (peak or valley) -

Noe Valley
Hayes Valley
Eureka Valley
Potrero Hill
Nob Hill
Russian Hill
Bernal Heights
Pacific Heights
Laurel Heights
Presidio Heights
Twin Peaks

It's probably the least "neighborhood"y of every San Francisco neighborhood, but I've always liked the sound of Fishermans Wharf.

The Excelsior and Crocker Amazon are also pretty cool names, IMO.

[Master Plan Dan]

Kitsilano... beaches district in Vancouver.

[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.

[Buckeye Native 001]

In Los Angeles? (Entirely subjective)

Echo Park
Silver Lake
Westwood
Boyle Heights
Monterey Park
Mid-Wilshire
Miracle Mile
The Fashion District
Santee Alley
The Toy District
The Jewlery District
Bunker Hill
Elysian Park
MacArthur Park

And the list goes on and on...

[bnk]

some of the names I like

• Hegewisch
• Bridgeport
• Bronzeville
• Armour Square
• Printer's Row
• Andersonville
• Sauganash
• Ukrainian Village
• Wentworth Gardens
• Prairie Shores
• Mount Greenwood
• Beverly Woods
• Clearing
• Pilsen
• Central Station
• Brickyard
• Logan Square
• The Gold Coast
• Goose Island
• Old Town

[nygirl1]

I got alot that I like:

Bathgate
Edenwald
Castle Hill
Gramercy
Battery Park
TriBeCa
Coney Island
Park Slope
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Canarsie
Bensonhurst
Gerritsen Beach
Rockaway (far)
Ozone
Malba
Lefferts
Lefrak
Whitestone
Steinway
Astoria
Tottenville
Todt Hill
Castleton Corners
........................

[donybrx]

Little Nanticoke PA (near Wilkes-Barre) has the 'Honeypot' section.....

[Jeff_in_Dayton]

There is a Sodom Corners outside of Youngstown, Ohio.

[CGII]

NY has so many great neighbourhood names, like the acronyms (TriBeCa, SoHo, DUMBO, etc...), but I won't get into that right now.

Milwaukee,

-Bronzeville (Not uncommon, but whatever)
-Brewers Hill
-Walker's Point (originally one of the three towns to merge and become Milwaukee)
-Riverwest
-Story Hill
-Harambee
-Avenues West
-Metcalfe Park
-Piggsville
-Sherman Park
-Tippecanoe

[SHiRO]

Amsterdam has a lot of cool neighbourhood names. Don't translate well though...

[rockyi]

Some for Rock Island, most are bland and uninspired:

Broadway

Old Chicago (I don't know how this name was aquired but this neighborhood has been called that for over 100 years)

Keystone

Longview

Highland Park

Big Island (white trash river rats)

Douglas Park

Greenbush

Eastlawn

Arsenal Island (A real weapons arsenal on an island but a large population of military people and their families live there too)

The District (downtown)

Watch Hill (Before Rock Island was here, this was the location of the Sauk Village of Saukenuk, Watch Hill is located where the Sauks look-out hill was. Black Hawk was born here in 1787)

[Elfreth33]

I always liked Philadelphia's Brewerytown.

[Attrill]

Hegewisch
Sauganash
Ravenswood
Bridgeport
Bronzeville
Armour Square
Logan Square
Pilsen
Goose Island

I'm trying to get people to use a new neighborhood name for my area - The Stave Triangle (bounded by California, Armitage, and Milwaukee). It's mostly a defense to keep realtors from calling it "West Bucktown".

I tried to convince my wife that we should name our daughter Logan since we live in Logan Square, but no go.

[pj3000]

Manayunk sounds like Edmonton's "Meyonohk".

Strawberry Mansion just sounds cool. It sticks out.

What makes Manayunk even cooler as a name is its translation: "the place where we drink" at the flat rock (Lenni Lenape Indians). It's definitely a place where I drink a Jack on the rocks or 8 when I'm in town.

[scguy]

Some Atlanta favorites of mine are:
Cabbagetown
Old Fourth Ward
Virginia Highland
Buckhead
Five Points
Little Five Points
SoNo
Druid Hills
Toco Hill

[Evergrey]

Pittsburgh - Mexican War Streets

[wrendog]

Best we have here in Salt Lake is, i guess, Sugarhouse.

[dktshb]

Edmonton has a common suffix too - "wood".

Lakewood (supposedly a shallow lake was there, more typically a slough, though.)
Knottwood (named after a former mayor)
Lynnwood (there is a lynn in this neighbourhood)
Elmwood
Crestwood (It is on a slight hill overlooking downtown and Hawrelak Park)
Callingwood
Norwood (is just north of downtown, so one must assume it is actually in the north)
Westwood
Eastwood
Southwood

Is it just me or is that kind of annoying?

[blade_bltz]

Boston:

Jamaica Plain
Roslindale - I dunno why I like it so much...
Roxbury - has a nice ring to it
Whiskey Point (Brookline) - renamed "The Point" for political correctness...but I still call it by its awesome original name

[MonkeyRonin]

I've always liked the sound of Rexdale and Malvern.

[Buckeye Native 001]

I've always liked the "Hill" and "Mount" neighborhoods of Cincinnati, not counting the various hill and mount neighborhoods outside the immediate city:

The Hills:
Bond Hill
College Hill
Liberty Hill
Paddock Hills
Price Hill
Vine Street Hill
Walnut Hills
Western Hills
Winton Hills

The Mounts:
Mount Adams
Mount Airy
Mount Auburn
Mount Echo
Mount Hope
Mount Lookout
Mount Washington

[CGII]

Is it just me or is that kind of annoying?

Not as annoying as 'Detroit Suburb Hellhole' trying to change its name to 'East Grosse Pointe.'

[Xelebes]

In Los Angeles? (Entirely subjective)

Echo Park
Silver Lake
Westwood
Boyle Heights
Monterey Park
Mid-Wilshire
Miracle Mile
The Fashion District
Santee Alley
The Toy District
The Jewlery District
Bunker Hill
Elysian Park
MacArthur Park

And the list goes on and on...

Miracle Mile is the only one that sticks out on that list.

[pj3000]

Erie, PA: Dock Junction

[Xelebes]

There is a Sodom Corners outside of Youngstown, Ohio.


That's a fine name if I ever heard of one.

[Xelebes]

Amsterdam has a lot of cool neighbourhood names. Don't translate well though...

It isn't what the name means, it's just how it sounds cool. List them, why don't you?

[Xelebes]

What makes Manayunk even cooler as a name is its translation: "the place where we drink" at the flat rock (Lenni Lenape Indians). It's definitely a place where I drink a Jack on the rocks or 8 when I'm in town.

Meyonohk is Cree for "A nice place to live".

I didn't particularily like living in that community though, ironic as it may be.

[Xelebes]

Is it just me or is that kind of annoying?

Yeah, it kinda is. Along with the dales.

Rosedale
Cromdale
Cloverdale
Riverdale

[Buckeye Native 001]

Miracle Mile is the only one that sticks out on that list.

Hence the reason I said it was a subjective list.

[seaskyfan]

There's a neighborhood in Seattle called Denny-Blaine. I think that's pretty cool. I also like the neighborhoods with Native American names, such as Leschi and Alki.

[Derek]

Bay Ho Park in SD is pretty cool...i guess...

[SHiRO]

It isn't what the name means, it's just how it sounds cool. List them, why don't you?
OK, a couple...


Burgwallen Oude Zijde (Old Side City Walls (meaning canals)
Burgwallen Nieuwe Zijde (New Side City Walls (meaning canals)
(this is the Red Light District)

Grachtengordel-West (Canal Belt West)
Grachtengordel-Zuid (Canal Belt South)

Nieuwmarkt en Lastage (New Market and Lastage)

Haarlemmerbuurt (Harlem neighbourhood)
(buurt means neighbourhood)

Jordaan

Weesperbuurt en Plantage (Weesperbuurt and Plantation)

Oostelijke Eilanden (Eastern Islands)

Tuindorp Nieuwendam (Garden City Newdam)

Buikslotermeer

Nieuwendammerham

De Pijp (The Pipe, again meaning a sort of canal)

Diamantbuurt (Diamond Quarter)

Museumkwartier (Museum Quarter)

Duivelseiland (Devil's island)

Willemspark

Gulden Winckelbuurt (Golden Store Quarter)

Slotermeer
Geuzenveld (Gueux Field, Les Gueux were rebels against the Spanish King in the 80 Years War)

Weesperzijde (Weesp (a town) Side)

Oosterparkbuurt (Eastern Park)

Dapperbuurt

Betondorp (Concrete Village)
De Omval
Amsteldorp
Jeruzalem
Park de Meer (Lake Park)

Osdorp
De Punt (The Point)

Staatsliedenbuurt (Statesmen Quarter)

Indische Buurt (Indian Quarter, Indian as in The Dutch East Indies)
Oostelijk Havengebied (Eastern Port)
IJburg
Zeeburgereiland

Buitenveldert
Zuidas-gebied (South Axis, a new skyscraper district)

Amstel III
Bijlmer
Gaasperdam

[Kilgore Trout]

i like mile end (there's also one in london). ahuntsic and hochelaga are also pretty cool. i really like little burgundy, too.

all in all, though, i'd have to say that my favourite neighbourhood name in montreal is côte-des-neiges, which literally means "hill of the snows" but can also be interpreted, more evocatively, as "coast of the snows."

[BTinSF]

My personal favorite: Cow Hollow

Runner Up: Dogpatch

[sofresh808]

i always liked san francisco's tenderloin district. here in sd probably (ab)normal heights.

[fflint]

Great names:

Boston's Jamaica Plain
Chicago's Back of the Yards
Pittsburgh's Mexican War Streets
Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine
Montreal's Mile End
San Francisco's Dogpatch
Los Angeles' Panorama City

[pdxtex]

Portland has some good ones. We have a Hollywood too!

[holladay]

Atlanta :

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

[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

[Cirrus]

Foggy Bottom, DC

I win. :)

[trvlr70]

For Chicago, both Boystown and Wrigleyville are quite original. And ironically, they are next to one another.

[donybrx]

^^^Isn't there a Boystown Nebraska still? the one founded by Father Flangan? My folks always used to get solicitied for donations to support the kids there....

[brickell]

It's not that cool, but I'll give you one guess about who lives in Brownsville.

There's also
Liberty City
Model City
Coconut Grove (we can't spell)
The Roads
Flagami
Overtown is actually under the highway, underserviced and underrespected.
The Design District

[fountainhead]

^^^ Foggy Bottom is hilarious, but Atlanta's Buttermilk Bottoms gives it a run for its money. I'll mention Anacostia for cool sounding DC neighbrohood.

[Chicago103]

Beverly Hills and Hegewisch for Chicago mostly for how those names stumble and confuse non-native yuppies.

[JivecitySTL]

Some cool St. Louis City neighborhood names:

JeffVanderLou
Bevo
Dogtown
Hi-Pointe
Skinker-DeBaliviere
Wells-Goodfellow
Patch

[kool maudit]

many a hand has scaled the grand
old face of The Plateau...

[bryson662001]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/0/08/Castelloplan.jpg

[Chicago Shawn]

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


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

[Xelebes]

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]

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.

[Xelebes]

German: Kaninchen

I'm thinking it's an Iberian root word.

[pico44]

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.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/0/08/Castelloplan.jpg

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?

[nygirl1]

More for New York: College Point, Vinegar Hill, Cobble Hill, Astoria.

[the94112]

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"

[st steven]

(oops)

[Hysteria]

South Bend -

Rum Village
Northshore Triangle
Sunnymede

[LyndaleHoosier]

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. :)

[hauntedheadnc]

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.

[BrianSac]

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)

[alleystreetindustry]

atlanta..cabbagetown. which happens to be one of the most neat neighborhoods in the world also.

[Xelebes]

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.

[BnaBreaker]

My favorite nhood names for nashville are Bordeaux and Cameron Trimble.

[shappy]

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

[BlackRedGold]

For Ottawa my favourites would be:

Heart's Desire
Golden Triangle
Sandy Hill
Bells Corners
Skyline
Country Place
Parkway Park
Katimavik

[hauntedheadnc]

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?

[Xelebes]

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?

THE NEEDLES! THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!!!

[shovel_ready]

Buffalo's cool-sounding neighborhood names:

Allentown
Fruit Belt
Black Rock
Iron Island
Lovejoy
Old First Ward
University Heights
Kaisertown

[Xelebes]

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.

[rgalston]

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

[Rusty van Reddick]

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)