how about Union Triangle?

South of Madison.

It just needs a name of it's own that really fits.

Burner Triangle.

Yo.

The 397-acre neighborhood planning area, called the Capitol Hill Urban Center Village (Village), is a densely populated urban neighborhood made up of multiple-family residential areas and storefront commercial streets. The Village is only a portion of what is commonly referred to as "Capitol Hill." The Village's north and east boundaries follow existing borders between multiple-family and single-family housing zones (single-family zones lie outside of the Village). To the south, the Village borders the Pike-Pine neighborhood and, to the west, Interstate-5 separates Capitol Hill from downtown.

I don't know how your neighborhood is categorized. I think of it as part of the Central District for sure. But then, I think of Pike-Pine as part of Capitol Hill, although it really is not.

And, in case you didn't read it, I grew up in the CD, live in the CD and love the CD. So spare me the sanctimonious geography lecture.

And I hope I'll never have to leave. I am
So Mad about the CD!

The Greater Madison Valley Community Council sends me their rag and I love it...but though my roomate and I joke about living in "SoMad", there's no doubt about it: we're in the CD and I for one am damn proud of it. I love it here. The neighborhood is peaceful (except for all the construction...the condos are encroaching!), the people are great. And don't even get me started about the chicken.

Central District, represent.

BTW Union Square is the area at 4th, 2nd Ave Ext, and Jackson, generally north of King Street Station. (Go look.)

http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/public/nmaps/S/NN-1287S.htm

Sorry, that has already been taken by the u-district. Quit trying to steal our name you dumb CD crackheads.

Not sure if it is a bigger area than you were thinking of, but I'd call your neighborhood Lenny Leonard.

http://simpsonspedia.net/index.php?title=Lenny_Leonard

also, your map? that's the CD. deal with it.

Dominic knows he's in the CD. (duh!) He's trying to get more specific because the CD is a big place.

Dominic, I think you just have to do what they do in the U-District and just give your cross streets. For example:

Someone: "Where do you live?"

You: "In the CD"

Someone: "Yeah, but where"

You: "Around 21st and Union"

Fin.

Now if you don't wanna get that specific with a stranger, you can just say "near the Central Cinema".

I think it was technically "Union Hill" neighborhood in the Central district but again, most people just ask for a better idea of where that is and I alwasy had to give a near Capital Hill" reference before they understood.

Going STRICTLY on the people I hang with and trying to let them know where I live - I say it's in the Burner Triangle (which most people now know is in the Capital Hill/Central district fuzzy no-name-zone.

Sorry, but word's already gotten out; I know three other friends who besides myself have all moved into Squire Park in the past two years.

Doink wrote: "Sorry, that has already been taken by the u-district. Quit trying to steal our name you dumb CD crackheads."

Wrong, your dingy, low rent neighborhood is called the *U* District, and it always have been. That's because without the U, there's absolutely no reason anyone would choose to live there. Spare any change?

When someone says they're from The District, everyone knows what district they're talking about.

I too, wish that Summit area had a nickname. I sometimes refer to it as the West Slope. Then people know what I am talking about. I heart Summit!

The City of Seattle is a different political entity from Seattle Schools. And besides, Seattle School reference area maps are way, way, more complicated than those.

Your real argument is that a lot of these neighborhood names don't correspond with current usage. Squire Park, for example, isn't on the map at all.

For reference, here is the whole city map. Drill down from there.

This map just doesn't make any sense if it's meant to delineate neighborhood boundaries, since it both refers to "neighborhoods" that don't in fact exist (e.g. "Minor" or "Mann") while at the same time omitting long-established neighborhoods such as "Squire Park" and "Mapleleaf" for example.

Educated guess: you guys are writing your blog posts in Word, then cutting-and-pasting them, fancy curly quotes and all, onto the web. Please turn off curly-quotes in Word or use a different tool.

I too live on Summit, and since cellphone service -- no matter the provider -- seems to work just barely or not at all on that street (especially on the stretch between Denny and Roy) I've long referred to it as "The Dead Zone." How's that for a neighborhood name?

The Dead Zone will do nicely! I am so honored to live in the same hood as the Stranger's lone sports fan!

i have friends who call it Scummit, but that really applies more to the part of Summit just off Pine where crack is cheap and teeth are scarce.

And since I actually live here- then it's my right to give it that name:
Z-hood

Say it now with me: 'zE-'hud

Depending on how you say it, the name can be ghetto, gay...you name it (I just did!). Now go forth and spead the word.

Cherry Hill sounds cheery but doesn't burn on the edges like some names suggested. I expect that name would be a developer's delight.

I read a suggestion to rename Garfield High after Jimi Hendrix. That may not happen just because Garfield High is so well-loved, but he was an alumnus of the school and the neighborhood.

How about calling the neighborhood Hendrix? It's a name that burns brightly for a wide range of folks. (Maybe renaming Garfield Playfield and Community Center would get that started.)

Hendrix honors the area's African-American heritage, and has room for all kinds of improvisation. It even entails a little connection with the seedy side, although I make a point not to buy heroin on the street corner, just on principal.

I don't care if people don't know where it is already. A place a needs name that makes sense.

Failing that, we say West Madrona or East Capitol Hill.

If it's called "Madison Gateway", does that means it's MadGate? Which is kinda nifty. I have to agree with the Hendrix reference, though, as being the most apt across the board.