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BoCoCa

Neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City

BoCoCa

Neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City

Streetscape in the center of BoCoCa

BoCoCa is a portmanteau word combining the names of three adjacent neighborhoods in the Brooklyn borough of New York City: Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, and Carroll Gardens. BoCoCa is not an actual neighborhood, but an umbrella term for the small region of Brooklyn directly south and southwest of Downtown Brooklyn. The relatively new name is not widely used, but is gaining greater currency, even outside the United States. One of its earliest appearances in print came from the November 1, 2002 issue of Newsday where it was described as one of several new acronyms for New York City locations alongside DUMBO and SoHa. Among the publications using BoCoCa to classify neighborhoods are the Not for Tourists guide and New York magazine, both of which list BoCoCa together with neighboring Red Hook.

NYC & Company, New York City's "official marketing, tourism and partnership organization", has conferred recognition of the term BoCoCa on its web site. However, it is a word that has not gained traction and is almost never used by actual residents of the three neighborhoods in question.

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References

  1. Vandam, Jeff. (March 14, 2004). "The Newest Entry In Neighborhood Scrabble". [[The New York Times]].
  2. (February 6, 2015). "From FiDi to DUMBO, neighborhood names take more than letters". Real Estate Weekly.
  3. Egeln, Harold. (October 30, 2007). "Is 'BoCoCa' Getting A British Accent?". [[Brooklyn Eagle.
  4. (1 November 2002). "Hot Spot". [[Newsday]].
  5. "NFT - Not For Tourists - New York - BoCoCa / Red Hook". Not For Tourists, Inc..
  6. "Best of New York Neighborhood Guide - BoCoCa/Red Hook". New York Media LLC.
  7. "about us / nycgo.com". NYC & Company, Inc..
  8. "nycgo.com". NYC & Company, Inc..
  9. Santiago, Amanda Luz Henning. [https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2019/05/the-new-york-city-neighborhood-names-that-failed-or-prevailed/177294/ "The New York City neighborhood names that failed or prevailed"], ''[[City & State]]'', May 31, 2019. Accessed October 11, 2024. "Since 2004, BoCoCa has been lingering as a possible catch-all for the small, adjacent neighborhoods neighborhoods clustered just south of Brooklyn Heights. But as Gothamist astutely said in 2011, 'nobody who actually lives here knows what a BoCoCa is.' A failure by all accounts."
  10. Gates, Moses. [https://rpa.org/news/lab/whats-new-yorks-newest-neighborhood-name "What's New York's Newest Neighborhood Name?"], [[Regional Plan Association]], November 2, 2016. Accessed October 11, 2024. "Neighborhood names which postdate Nolita, but whose 'common usage' is debatable.... BoCoCa: While there were heated arguments as to whether BoCoCa was in common usage, it was ultimately disqualified as being a term used to refer to three neighborhoods (BoCoCa is a portmanteau of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, and Carroll Gardens) each with their own name in current popular usage, not a neighborhood name in and of itself."
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