BoCoCa is a
portmanteau
A portmanteau word, or portmanteau (, ) is a blend of words[neighborhoods
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in the
Brooklyn
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borough of
New York City
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:
Boerum Hill,
Cobble Hill, and
Carroll Gardens
Carroll Gardens is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Taking up around 40 city blocks, it is bounded by Degraw and Warren Streets (north), Hoyt and Smith Streets (east), Ninth Street or the G ...
. BoCoCa is not an actual neighborhood, but an
umbrella term
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for the small region of Brooklyn directly south and southwest of
Downtown Brooklyn
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. The relatively new name is not widely used, but is gaining greater currency, even outside the
United States
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.
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
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Tourism is travel for pleasure or bus ...
, 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 is almost never used by actual residents of the three neighborhoods in question.
See also
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South Brooklyn
South Brooklyn is a historic term for a section of the former City of Brooklyn – now the New York City borough of Brooklyn – encompassing what are now the Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Gowanus, Park Slope, Windsor Ter ...
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Dumbo
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FiDi
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TriBeCa
Tribeca (), originally written as TriBeCa, is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City. Its name is a syllabic abbreviation of "Triangle Below Canal Street". The "triangle" (more accurately a quadrilateral) is bounded by Canal Stree ...
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SoHo
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London. Originally a fashionable district for the aristocracy, it has been one of the main entertainment districts in the capital since the 19th century.
The area was develo ...
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NoHo
NoHo, short for North of Houston Street (as contrasted with SoHo), is a primarily residential neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is bounded by Mercer Street to the west and the Bowery to the east, ...
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Nolita
Nolita, sometimes written as NoLIta and deriving from "North of Little Italy",Roberts, Sam"New York’s Little Italy, Littler by the Year"''New York Times'' (February 21, 2011) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. No ...
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NoMad
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References
External links
Map of BoCoCa at BrooklynNow.com
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Neighborhoods in Brooklyn
Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
Boerum Hill
Cobble Hill, Brooklyn