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- ↑ Santiago, Amanda Luz Henning. "The New York City neighborhood names that failed or prevailed", City & State , May 31, 2019. Accessed October 11, 2024. "Since 2004, BoCoCa has been lingering as a possible catch-all for the small, adjacent neighborhoods neighborhoods clustered just south of Brooklyn Heights. But as Gothamist astutely said in 2011, 'nobody who actually lives here knows what a BoCoCa is.' A failure by all accounts."
- ↑ Gates, Moses. "What's New York's Newest Neighborhood Name?", Regional Plan Association, November 2, 2016. Accessed October 11, 2024. "Neighborhood names which postdate Nolita, but whose 'common usage' is debatable.... BoCoCa: While there were heated arguments as to whether BoCoCa was in common usage, it was ultimately disqualified as being a term used to refer to three neighborhoods (BoCoCa is a portmanteau of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, and Carroll Gardens) each with their own name in current popular usage, not a neighborhood name in and of itself."
