Nicknames for Places

Maybe you already know this. But I stumbled onto it as I was working on book three in my Safe Lands series. I needed to name an area of my city, and I wanted it to sound cool, like a nickname. I was thinking of some of the areas in Manhattan, like SoHo, and decided to do a little research. I discovered that the name SoHo refers to the area south of Houston Street. (Get it? SOuth or HOuston Street?)

I knew this already from the time I spent going to college in Manhattan. But what I didn’t know was that it was named by Chester Rapkin, an urban planner who, according to his obituary in the New York Times, “first used the term SoHo in a 1962 study of the community, while he was chairman of the University of Pennsylvania’s urban study group.”

This started a trend for nicknaming areas in New York City. Consider the following list:
-DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass)
-NoHo (NOrth of HOuston Street)
-Nolita (NOrth of Little ITAly)
-NoMad (NOrth of MADison Square Park)
-SoHa (SOuth of HArlem)
-TriBeCa (TRIangle BElow CAnal Street)

So I came up with one of my own.
-Cibelo (CIty BELOw the _______ ) I can’t say what or I might spoil book three, and book two isn’t even out yet!

Ever use a catchy acronym in your writing?