Say What? SoCo, No Way!

2008 May 17
by uptownflavor

And if the 125th Street rezoning, a luxury boutique hotel chain, and Columbia’s expansion were not enough to seal upper Manhattan’s fate, brokers have coined a pretentiously trendy name to attract young people to the nabe: “SoCo.”

“South of Columbia University is Hot. SOCO,” reads a listing for a $349,000 studio on 103rd and Riverside Drive on Halstead Property’s Web site.

We did not think anything could be worse than the SoHa moniker condo developers are pushing on Harlem, but maybe college students will be more receptive to the rebranding campaign for Morningside Heights. -via NY Observer

One Response
  1. 2008 May 18
    illoquentgent permalink

    Ha…this has been around since last year. Halstead, I believe, had SoCo and NoCo(north of columbia). It’s become so trivial it’s no longer a novelty. It’s corny now.

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