West Midwood Is On the Map!
Geo-coordinates 40°37'52.2"N 73°57'57.8"W
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| 2016: Google Search For West Midwood Yields Image Above |
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| 2016: Google Maps |
Google
Maps displays West Midwood as a neighborhood name now thanks in part to
Chaudry Mohammad's excellent Wikipedia entry earlier this year, to which the
search results link.
And
yet I can't help thinking that defining ourselves in relation to
somewhere else may not be the optimum choice, raising as it does all
sorts of existential questions as to who we really are. That's why I
prefer another name that embeds an observed topographical elevation
into our communal name...Wuthering Westminster, Rugby Ridge...
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| 2016: The Q Train Begins to Ascend Argyle Heights |
The
land ascends from Newkirk Avenue until it crests near Avenue H. The middle block is Argyle Road. So combining Argyle and H, I
prefer to call this area west of the Brighton tracks and north of the LIRR cut, Argyle Heights. It's so...so...lofty!