Not quite Chelsea or Clinton or Hell’s Kitchen

I am looking at apartments in Manhattan and the realtor s taking me to the area in the 30s between 8th and 10th Avenues.

I have a question. I haven’t really heard of a cutesy name for this area yet. I always consider Clinton aka Hell’s Kitchen to be above 42nd Street and Chelsea to start below 30th and go to about 18th Street or even below. But the West 30s is just called “Midtown West” (MidWe is a possibility)..but how about WEstofGARmentDIstrict or WeGarDi….or NOt-QUite-CLInton — NoQuiCli……or BEtween-CHELsea-and-CLIinton -hmmm BECHELCLI — too tough to pronounce!

I had another idea I want to throw out…..we have Chelsea and Clinton, but somehow we are missing Hillary. I vote that we honor a possible future president by naming the area “Rodham” or “Hillary”…..or give Obama equal time and call the area “Obama Hill” (There’s already “Clinton Hill” in Brooklyn). I’m being optimistic about who our next president will be, but eventually we will want to honor him/her anyway..Washington has a Square and Lincoln has a Center. Let’s honor either our first woman or African-American in the White House. Not that I have any say in the matter, but send your comments anyway.

3 Comments so far

  1. jenny (unregistered) on July 19th, 2007 @ 2:57 pm

    Hey I work in this hood! There’s nothing here, that’s why there’s no name! :) j/k

    A lot of people call it Javitz. My friends refer to it as “the ass end of nowhere.”

    Perhaps East Jersey? :)

  2. Chris Trent (unregistered) on July 19th, 2007 @ 3:15 pm

    i remember a while ago time out dubbed that area “hell’s pantry.” i kinda like that…

  3. Mike Still (unregistered) on July 20th, 2007 @ 2:00 pm

    I like to call it the bustling “Transportation District.” Very posh.


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