City of Churches (Brooklyn)

Borough of Homes

Boogie Down Bronx

Crooklyn

Shao-Lin (Staten Island)

WillyB, Billyburg, Billburg, B-burg

Dead Line

Santa Claus & Sidewalk Santas

Little Odessa; Little Ukraine

Little Poland

Orient Express, or International Line (7 train)

Hymietown; Jew York

New Jack City

Little Brazil

Murder, Inc.

Little India

Power Breakfast; Power Lunch

“On Line” (not “in line")

Bet a Big Apple

NoHo

Chop Suey

Nuyorican

Flagel (Flat Bagel, or Flat)

“Don’t Even THINK of Parking Here,” “No Parking, No Standing, No Stopping, No Kidding”

Alternate side of the street parking

Eurotrash

Mush (sauerkraut & roll)

Bat Mitzvah

Obie

Tony

Off-Off Broadway

World Trade Center; Twin Towers

Never/Rarely (N/R subway lines)

Gypsy Cab

Gypsy Robe

Wilding ("Central Park Jogger” incident)

Garment Center

Oreo

Sayre’s Law: Mayors of NY come from nowhere and go nowhere

5th Avenue (candy bar)

Fashion Avenue; Fashion Capital of the World

Newsradio; “Give us 22 minutes, we’ll give you the world”

Diamond District (Diamond & Jewelry Way)

“Going to the city” (Manhattan)

Bag Lady

Little Colombia (Chapinero or Chapinerito)

Little Hungary

Little Syria

Brooklyn is the bedroom of New York

Pizzeria

Sugar Hill

“Wise Men Fish Here” (Gotham Book Mart)

Museum Mile

Little Old New York

Brooklyn chewing gum (from Italy)

Iraq (LeFrak City); Kuwait (Queensbridge)

Restaurant Row (West 46th Street)

Greenmarket

Pistol (Carnegie Deli); LEO (Stage Deli)

A New Yorker’s View of the World

Fort Apache; Dirty Thirty

Bowery Boy

Who played for Yankees, Knicks and Rangers in the same year?

Dead End Kids

“Does Macy’s tell Gimbel’s?”

Bed-Stuy (Do or Die); Bed-Stuy and Proud of It

Miss Subways

EV (East Village)

Meet Me at/under…

Op-Ed (opposite editorial)

Appetizing Store ("Appy")

Delicatessen Store ("Deli")

Little Germany (Kleindeutschland)

Five Points

Mad. Ave.

Dirty Water Dog

Rockettes

Windy City (summary)

GWB (George Washington Bridge, not G. W. Bush)

Little Bohemia

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

Litterbug

Polar Bears

Little Rumania

Roaring Forties

Flower Market/District & FloMa

Fur District

Zipper

Ladies’ Mile

SpaHa (Spanish Harlem)

SoHa (South of Harlem)

SoCo (South of Columbia University)

Superflack

“Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army”

Bargain District

LoHo

Tootsie Roll

Chicken Divan

Book Row (or, Booksellers’ Row)

MoMA (Museum of Modern Art)