Well, well, well. Apparently New Jersey residents—or the Bridge & Tunnel crowd, as some people call them when they infiltrate our fair city—have their own derogatory nicknames for out-of-towners visiting the Garden State. According to the Daily News, summer tourists at the Shore are called FOOTs, which stands for "Fucking Out-Of-Towners." They even have bumper stickers proclaiming "I Ain't No FOOT." Classy! more ›

Of course: Some real estate marketers are bandying about a new neighborhood name for a sliver of already pretty tiny TriBeCa—it's "North TriBeCa"—and they tell the NY Times that North TriBeCa has turn-of-the-last-century buildings (or facsimiles of them); eastern TriBeCa has the high risey buildings which a broker says "feels more like the financial district." But another broker says, "As a marketing ploy, I’d say buyers who come to TriBeCa are among the more sophisticated, and they’re not going to fall for it." more ›

Even though New York City has around 98 monikers, did you know that there is no official city nickname? more ›