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Baton Rouge has Mall City, Scotlandville, Southdowns. New Orleans has Black Pearl, Fontainebleau, Gert Town, Milneburg, Little Woods, and Tall Timbers.
Tall Timbers is just a subdivison with streets named after trees. (I grew up in Park Timbers-same developers, but named after national parks). And the Black Pearl is a new name, the previous name for that section, if I typed it out, would get me banned.
We also have Back-A-Town and Hollygrove. Then there's Fat City, tea partier discount restaurant capital of Louisiana. One I do like is Village De L'Est, a Vietnamese neighborhood. There's also Pigeon Town, but I think Faubourg Marigny has the prettiest name.
Tall Timbers is just a subdivison with streets named after trees. (I grew up in Park Timbers-same developers, but named after national parks). And the Black Pearl is a new name, the previous name for that section, if I typed it out, would get me banned.
We also have Back-A-Town and Hollygrove. Then there's Fat City, tea partier discount restaurant capital of Louisiana. One I do like is Village De L'Est, a Vietnamese neighborhood. There's also Pigeon Town, but I think Faubourg Marigny has the prettiest name.
Albuquerque has a "Pill Hill", although it's not as common to call it that anymore. In the olden days we also used to have a "Judge's Row" which is now known as the Downtown Neighborhood. We also have a Five Points, but it's outside the city limits. Nob Hill and Bel-Air are inside the city, though. And we couldn't resist the acronym/portmanteau wave so the area immediately east of downtown is now known as "EDo".
Some neighborhood names more original to Albuquerque are:
Dietz Farm
Matthew Meadows
Sawmill
Huning Castle
Martineztown
Hoffmantown
Princess Jeanne Park
Classic Uptown
Mark Twain
Hidden Park
Netherwood Park
Kirtland Addition
The International District
Siesta Hills
Four Hills
Singing Arrow
Supper Rock
Chelwood Hills
Holiday Park
Stardust Skies
Tanoan
High Desert
Volcano Cliffs
Lavaland
Outside city limits:
Primrose Pointe
North Albuquerque Acres
Adobe Acres
Atrisco
Kinney Brick
In and around Albuquerque there are also a few neighborhoods named for the old Spanish families that settled them:
Los Griegos
Los Candelarias
Los Duranes
Los Padillas
There is also the incorporated village of Los Lunas in Valencia County just south of Albuquerque. Some people think it means "the moons" in English, when it actually means "the Lunas", as in the Luna Family.
Cincinnati has Over-the-Rhine, named by German immigrants.
Lower Price Hill, East Price Hill, and Price Hill. Gets confusing.
And a neighborhood called California.
More Cincinnati:
Mount Adams
Mount Auburn
Mount Lookout
Mount Airy
Mount Washington
Walnut Hills
Winton Hills
College Hill
East Walnut Hills
Northside
North Avondale
East End
West End
Westwood
Camp Washington
Pleasant Ridge
Oakley
Hyde Park
Roselawn
O'Bryonville
Madisonville
Sedamsville
Pendleton
Evanston
Bond Hill
Hartwell
Clifton
Clifton Heights
University Heights
Kennedy Heights
Queensgate
Boston doesn't have too many interesting names for neighborhoods but almost ALL of them have nicknames, much more so than the ones here in LA and the nicknames can be pretty cool:
Boston:
East Boston is Eastie
South Boston is Southie
West Roxbury is Westie or West Rox
Dorchester is Dot (and Dorchester Ave is Dot Ave)
Jamaica Plain is JP
Hyde Park is HP
Allston sometimes the Student Slums
Roslinsale can be Rozzie
Mattapan has been typed Murdapan sometimes :/
In Dorchester you also have:
Savin Hill is (completely unfittingly) somtimes Stab n' Kill (but i don't know who came up with this and it's not widely used of course)
Four Corners
Across the river in Cambridge some neighbs still go by their old ward numbers, like Area 4 and Area 9.
And in Somerville you have one of my personal favorites, Powder House Square, as well as the infamous Winter Hill.
Baltimore has a neighborhood called "Hoes Heights."
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