DC Neighborhood Nicknames

[Moth]

Originally Posted by stateofnature

Just PLEASE do not call Adams Morgan "AdMo" or (even worse) Columbia Heights "CoHi." The neverending SoHo, NoHo-ization of hip city neighborhood names needs to stop. It's totally lazy and unoriginal at this point.

I resisted "NoMa" for as long as I could but now that it's actually on the name of the Metro station it's more or less official.

Bravo! I am sure NoMa already has a perfectly nice name.

[paytonc]

Originally Posted by stateofnature

The neverending SoHo, NoHo-ization of hip city neighborhood names needs to stop.

Sorry, but texting and Twitter will result in ever more abbreviations. We're not in the Victorian era anymore. It really has little to do with New York City.

Originally Posted by Moth

Bravo! I am sure NoMa already has a perfectly nice name.

Not really. It was an industrial area that people didn't really go to, and thus didn't really have a name. Note, for example, that this old thread about the old Greyhound station right in the middle of NoMa never mentions any name for the area -- nor do Post articles about the station opening and closing.
Greyhound bus station/Union Station area safe?

[Yiuppy]

Originally Posted by paytonc

Sorry, but texting and Twitter will result in ever more abbreviations. We're not in the Victorian era anymore. It really has little to do with New York City.



Not really. It was an industrial area that people didn't really go to, and thus didn't really have a name. Note, for example, that this old thread about the old Greyhound station right in the middle of NoMa never mentions any name for the area -- nor do Post articles about the station opening and closing.
Greyhound bus station/Union Station area safe?

We used to call it... "up there where da bus station at".