Read’s Mari’s posting on the issue of neighborhood names that revisits the hot topic Bill posted about on this blog a few months ago: What’s in a Name.
What’s in a name?
I’ll probably get back to my regular blogging after Labor Day. But I wanted to start blogging about a topic I keep coming back to and that is neighborhood names. Part of the problem is I’m not from Washington, DC. A lot of us aren’t from the District. And some few natives I have known, hailing from other parts of the city aren’t necessarily familiar with all parts of town. Armed with ignorance and unencumbered with any childhood attachment of names, we get into petty squabbles of if where Bloomingdale ends and Eckington begins and if Bloomingdale is a part of Eckington at all.
Why does it matter?
Read the rest at In Shaw (an historically gentrified blog): What’s in a name?.
Bates Area Civic Association 
When people ask where I live, I say “East Shaw”. No one knows the name “Truxton Circle” except Google, and it’s even harder to use that name because the circle doesn’t exist anymore.