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Whoa, Nelly! The neighborhood name game continues as The Brooklyn Paper reports residents of a seven-square-block micro-neighborhood south of Prospect Park are rallying, and possibly succeeding, to rename their community "Stable Brooklyn" (as in: horses). Councilman Bill DeBlasio supports these residents, who reportedly want to "restrict the size of new buildings in the area bounded by Caton Avenue, Prospect Expressway, Coney Island Avenue and Ocean Parkway"—but not everyone is on board, even though the paper notes that "The Department of City Planning also uttered the name in recent documents about a proposed rezoning of an area that many residents know as Kensington." Some real estate agents chimed in (of course) saying it made the neighborhood sound "messy," and the CB7 district manager declared: "You can’t call one block this neighborhood and the next block another neighborhood without someone taking offense." But the Stable Brooklyn Community Group have been at this for 3 years and show no signs of stopping.
Stable Brooklyn 11218-ish
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11218 = Kensington
This is moronic, "Stable Brooklyn"? What neighborhood has the name of the borough in it's title? China Manhattan? Beach Queens?
These people need to make better use of their time.
The area is Kensington. Period. Besides, what will we have to rename ourselves should the Kensington Stables ever close...
At least call it Brooklyn Stable, it at least almost makes sense for what they are trying to get at.
What's a waste of time is having to go around cleaning up after Mr. McLaughlin's ill-conceived story.
Our community group is not on a "quest" to rename anything. I never said that nor is anyone I know of on such a quest. We have far better goals. What I did say to Mr. McLaughlin was that the name came about because when we organized our neighborhood group it was in response to out of scale development. We were setting up a website and we needed a domain name, quite frankly. The pun seemed to fit because it fit with our goals of trying to stabilize the flux that was occurring around us and it incorporated the stables, one of the defining features of the area. End of story. But apparently not a good enough story for him, so he made up his own.
It is true that the area does seem cut off from other parts of Windsor Terrace (of which it is technically a part) because of the high-volume streets surrounding it. We also feel more aligned with Kensington because of the particularly large road to our north (a Moses-era entrance ramp). I imagine the name of our group got included in the re-zoning ULURP because we were so active as a group in getting our ideas heard. Nonetheless, I'm sure if you ask anyone who lives here, they will continue to say, "I live on the border of Windsor Terrace and Kensington, near the horse stables...do you know where that is? No? Well, then do you know where Ocean Parkway and Coney Island Avenue begin?...etc.."
If anyone wants to know more about the community plan we developed, feel free to read our report at (you know) www.stablebrooklyn.com
Thanks!