Outlawing New York's Imagined Neighborhoods

Hero New York Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries is “writing legislation” (translation: getting attention for a project that will never become a law) that would somehow “punish real estate agents for inventing neighborhood names and for falsely stretching their boundaries.” (It would also require city approval for the naming of neighborhoods, which, no way, no how, no thank you.) And yes, while it’s most amusing that the alleged law would forbid making up silly new neighborhoods, it would be nice if something could prevent the realtor-based spread of Williamsburg into Brownsville. Who else is to blame for all of this? Curbed. They’re monsters like this! Also New York mag, which recently went postal on TWENTY HOT MICRONEIGHBORHOODS. Twenty hot illegal microneighborhoods!