Cool Neighbourhood Names

[chris08876]

Originally Posted by mdiederi

Fucking, Austria

Wow. Thats even better than Intercorse,PA or Muff,Ireland.


http://www.theirishworld.com/wp-cont...13/07/muff.jpg

Also Crackpot, England


https://housesitters.files.wordpress...7/crackpot.jpg

[Perklol]

Originally Posted by StethJeff

Please re-read the thread title and then justify your answer. I'm dying to know.

Because its Brooklyn

Is something wrong?

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by mdiederi

Fucking, Austria

Yeah that one. Which is what many were saying at the outset of WW1.

[Xelebes]

I like how Fucking is right beside Wolfing, Gumpling and Franking.

[muppet]

[Xelebes]

On that note: Consort, Alberta. Where k.d. lang is from.

[dc_denizen]

Cockfosters

familiar for anyone taking the picadilly line from heaththrow

[chris08876]

Mianus (neighborhood):

Mianus /maɪˈænəs/, formerly Mayamus and Upper Landing,[1] is a neighborhood in the town of Greenwich in Connecticut.

Dildo, Newfoundland:


http://www.theluxuryspot.com/wp-cont...1.11.46-PM.png

[Antares41]

I like the unusual one-of-a-kind names. My favorites from the Bronx: Throggs Neck, Mott Haven, Spuyten Duyvil, Morrisania. In Brooklyn, Bedford Stuyvesant, and Queens, Neponsit. Also lived in the Shadyside neighborhood in Pittsburgh, cool name . My address was right on Shady Ave.

[TimCity2000]

Some cool/fun/quirky ones from Birmingham, Alabama:

Druid Hills
Gate City
Glen Iris
Tuxedo

[MolsonExport]

Batman, Turkey. Superhero and Fowl.

csmonitor

[saybanana]

In Los Angeles city I like the neighborhood names
Eagle Rock - a huge rock under with eagle shadow
Dogtown - possibly nicknamed for the animal shelter or pack of roving dogs.
Garvanza - for the fields of Garbanzo beans (chickpeas) that were grown.
Tehrangeles - new area of large concentration of Persians there.
Skid Row - section of the for the downtown homeless area.

[djbowen]

Not technically neighborhoods, but the southern part of Everglades National Park has these gems:

Black Betsy Key
Coot Bay
First National Bank
Blackwater Sound
Crocodile Dragover
Club Key
Derelict Key
Seven Palm Lake
Dildo Key (snicker...)
The Boggies

and my all time favorite

First National Bank.

http://www.nps.gov/ever/planyourvisi...da_bay_map.pdf

Some favorites from Rhode Island:

Prospect Square in Hopkinton, RI (like a dozen houses and yet it sounds like something out of Manhattan!)
Wyoming
Moosup Valley
Meshanticut

Others I'm aware of:

West Side Industrial, Detroit
Peoplestown, Atlanta
Pittsburgh, Atlanta
Vine City, Atlanta
Bankhead, Atlanta
Buckhead, Atlanta (basically the opposite of Bankhead)

[brickell]

Originally Posted by djbowen

Not technically neighborhoods, but the southern part of Everglades National Park has these gems:

I laugh like a little boy every time I see this one on the map

It just sounds dirty... and then you look at.

The Arsenicker keys

http://www.topoquest.com/map.php?lat...=zoomin&size=m

[Aylmer]

- Parc-Extension (Montreal)
- Mechanicsville (Ottawa

[OfCourse]

I like Petworth in DC--but that might be because I live there. Ha.

Otherwise, I like Ridgely's Delight, Hollins Market, Brewer's Hill, Butchers Hill all in Baltimore.

[Shawn]

I don't know how I could have forgotten about Foggy Bottom, that's right up there with Deep Ellum.

Also, Bunny Friend. I think we have a clear winner here.

Some Tokyo neighborhoods have cool names when you take the kanji meanings literally, which it turns out no Japanese person ever does. So when you point out, "Hey, where are the four valleys in Yotsuya? This place looks pretty flat to me," people just say something like "huh, I never even thought of it like that..."

Some neighborhoods people here probably have heard of:

Shibuya: Bitter Valley
Harajuku: Field Inn
Shinjuku: New Lodgings
Akihabara: Autumn Leaf Field
Ginza: Money Tradehouse

My favorites:

Ochanomizu: Tea Water
Sendagi: 1,000 Low-Quality Trees
Kagurazaka: The Hill of Singing and Dancing

[djbowen]

In addition to the bland strip malls, South Florida is a fount of absurd place names.

Jewfish Creek in the Keys
No Name Key, which ironically now has a name
Swastika Park, a section of Little Havana in Miami
Tatum's Colored Town Addition (a subdivision plat in Homestead mentioned in http://www.miamidade.gov/govaction/m...arFolder=Y2007)
Shark Bight
Shark Valley (which has neither sharks nor valleys)
Mormon Key
...

Florida is not alone, however. You have

Jew Town

in Ernakulam, India

Jewtown

Pennsylvania

and

Jewtown

Georgia

and of course

Negro Sawmill Brook

in my own Rhode Island.

On the topic of totally uncool names, the Daily Mail posted this article about the countless racist town names in the US:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ace-names.html

[fflint]

Sacramento has a neighborhood called Poverty Ridge.

Ironically, Poverty Ridge is an historic, upscale neighborhood on the center city's only hill where poor people flooded out of their low-land homes fled during floods in the 1800s.

[texcolo]

NYC: Tribeca (Triangle Below Canal Street)