- A1) Los Angeles, California. The city also has the simply named Arts, Fashion, Financial, Furniture and Decorative Arts, Jewelry, Old Bank, Toy, and Wholesale Districts.
- A2) Boston, Massachusetts. The most famous neighborhoods include Fenway/Kenmore, where the Boston Red Sox play, and the North End, the Italian section of town.
- A3) New Orleans, Louisiana. The French Quarter is both the name of a neighborhood (Vieux Carre) and one of the city's thirteen districts.
- A4) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The city is split into North, Northeast, Northwest, West, South, and Southwest Philadelphia, plus Center City, the original city limits.
- A5) San Diego, California. The hundred plus neighborhoods include Egger Highlands, Emerald Hills, Swan Canyon, and another South Park.
- A6) Phoenix, Arizona. The city refers to its fifteen divisions as "urban villages".
- A7) Chicago, Illinois. These four neighborhoods come from, respectively, the West Side (Humboldt Park), the South Side (Hyde Park), the North Side (Lakeview), and Downtown (The Loop), which are the four main sections of the city.
- A8) Washington, D.C.. The planned city is divided into eight numbered wards.
- A9) Miami, Florida. There is also a Little Havana and a Model City.
- A10) San Francisco, California. The city is broken into more than a hundred neighborhoods, including Chinatown, Embarcadero, Nob Hill, the Presidio, and Telegraph Hill.
- A11) Atlanta, Georgia. There is also a Little Five Points, which lies two and a half miles to the east of downtown and Five Points.
- A12) New York, New York (bonus point for also giving the borough, Brooklyn). My favorite Brooklyn neighborhood name is RAMBO, which stands for Right After the Manhattan Bridge Overpass and has nothing to do with Sylvester Stallone.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
City Sections - Random Trivia Answers
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