The West Edge: a neighborhood name without one
Entertaining story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer this week about neighb names and the real estate hype behind them. They'd have you believe that Fifth and Virginia is now "Midtown," as in Manhattan. New York Alki, indeed. I worked for years in the "West Edge." I think that's a particularly pathetic effort to invent an image. Despite the signs, banners, and murals, it's never caught on. Just like Mayor Charles Royer's signs declaring that Seattle is a "Kid's Place" didn't make it so. (Now good schools, that might have helped ...)
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