What's in a Name?
Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries is a man on a mission, a mission to stem the tide of broker-named neighborhoods like “ProCro” and “Greenwood Heights”! According to City Room, Jeffries is going to introduce a bill next week that would require new names for neighborhoods get approved by community boards, the City Council and the mayor. The…
Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries is a man on a mission, a mission to stem the tide of broker-named neighborhoods like “ProCro” and “Greenwood Heights”! According to City Room, Jeffries is going to introduce a bill next week that would require new names for neighborhoods get approved by community boards, the City Council and the mayor. The bill calls for fining brokers who use unofficial names in their listings and, perhaps, suspending their licenses. City Room quotes Jeffries as saying that real estate agents “are allowed to essentially pull names out of thin air in order to rebrand a neighborhood and have the effect of raising rents or home prices.” A senior vice president for the Real Estate Bard of New York, meanwhile, says it would be “difficult to legislate the use of an official name when these neighborhood names are not legally defined.” Still: BoCoCa, we hardly knew ye.
‘SoBro’ and ‘ProCro’ No Joke to Assemblyman [City Room]
Assemblyman Wants To Prevent Realtors From Renaming Neighborhoods [NY1]
seems like a great proposal. Can we add a rider about people who say “entitled” when they mean “self-entitled”, people who spell toney as tony, and lets sue the NYDN for writing lightpole instead of lamp-post.
Is he the guy from Yard Crashers?
here is where a good advisor would’ve told him “dont waste your time with this”
I heart you Hakeem Jeffries! Corcoran – take that!
seems silly proposal.
Where is ProCo?
So what about places that go back to the original name of 80 years ago… Bedford Stuyvesant would be four different neighborhoods. Also Carroll Gardens the old South Brooklyn and Clinton Hill called in the Brooklyn eagle as simply the Hill.
“Still: BoCoCa, we hardly knew ye. ”
I won’t miss it in the least.
which community is jeffries the assemblyman for? i wanna move there, cuz obviously they don’t have any other problems to deal with.