A Hip Name For Crown Heights

What are all these hip names I hear when talking about Crown Heights:

Crown Heights: CroHei
Crown Heights South: CroSo
Crown Heights North: CroNO

Anonymous wrote: What are all these hip names I hear when talking about Crown Heights:

Crown Heights: CroHei
Crown Heights South: CroSo
Crown Heights North: CroNO

how about.... CROWN HEIGHTS??
Please, we don't need any cute little names to remove the history of the hood...

EOR

East of Ratner.

crown heights is cool enough.

I actually love EOR

Heightster...that's so sad. Who have you been talking to?

Don't go hipsterizing my hood, now....leave it be, brothaman.

How about DoNaTHeNeHo = Dont Name The NeighborHood.

Subject: Re: A Hip Name For Crown Heights

Crown Heights sounds right to me too.

Crown Heights, Crown Heights, Crown Heights

Yeah, cutesy neighborhood names make me want to punch people in the face. The people who actually use them, that is.

And what's with the word "nabe"?? Are there two many syllables in the word "neighborhood"? Or do we spend so much time sending text messages to people that we now have to write in abbreviations?

Sorry - I haven't had any coffee yet. O:)

you right: the reno in my nabe or total retro. oif course the hood....

THE CROWN. good? no? lol....

>>LittleRedMenace, yes there are too many letters in neighborhood to type and say. that's just the way of the future.

Then the future is a terrible place!

Actually, I should talk as I typed "two" instead of "too". I mean, obviously I know the difference (or should I say "dif"?). It pays to reread something before posting it.

I'll accept "nabe" if I have to, but I will punch anyone in the face who uses the term "micronabe" in my presence. Well actually, I'll probably just laugh.

LittleRedMenace wrote:
Actually, I should talk as I typed "two" instead of "too".

I thought that 'two many syllables' in three-syllabled 'neighborhood' was apt.

Actually, I thought that as well upon looking at it again. But I can't lie - I didn't do it intentionally. I'm not as clever that early in the morning.

So back to the topic: anyone for "Crow Hill"?

No- where's the "hill" you're referring to?
I don't mind The Crown, though.....it could grow on me.
Funny though, in certain circles (hip hop) Franklin and Bedford Aves are called F A Rock and Bed Rock , respectively. There's even t-shirts! .....pretty freakin cool, if you ask me.

The Crown just makes me think of these car air fresheners from the 90s.

Subject: THE HOOD

Crow Hill - that’s what our neighborhood was called. Real estate people wanted to attract ppl to the area so they changed the name to Crown Heights.
. PLG area was once called pig town.

How about Crow Town ? lol

Don't know if this is the right place to ask, but..... who knows where/what is Rugby / Weeksville / Wingate ???

Subject: Crown Heights

It's impossible to "create" a hip name. It must be born on its own, something that happens naturally. Like any good nickname, a "hip" neighborhood name suggests itself. Crown Heights is wonderful. You can't make it any hipper, man.

Don't know if this is the right place to ask, but..... who knows where/what is Rugby / Weeksville / Wingate ???

Weeksville is east of Crown Heights. I think of it as being the area directly north of the Albany Projects. In my mind its a pretty small neighborhood being directly adjacent to the Weeksville Heritage Center, but I don't think that was always the case. I get the sense that the area that was historically known as Weeksville is extremely large (kind of like Bed-Stuy is now) and may have included parts of what is now East NY, Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy.

Rugby/Wingate is south of CH proper. Not really sure of the dimensions but I'd say its between Empire and Beverly and from Brooklyn Ave over to, say, Rodgers. I think of Rugby/Wingate as being smaller areas of the neighborhood otherwise known as Flatbush.

I get the sense that the area that was historically known as Weeksville is extremely large (kind of like Bed-Stuy is now) and may have included parts of what is now East NY, Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy.

I once had an appraiser tell me that what I knew as North Crown Heights was actually Weeksville. This was an old timer, must have been in his 70's.

I'm not sure what the boundaries of Wingate are, but I don't think it ends at Brooklyn Ave, because Wingate Field, home of the Martin Luther King Jr concert series is between Brooklyn and Kingston on Winthrop (across from Kings County Hospital).