Names for U.S. congressional districts

[AN63093]

Suggestion- the names should be ones that locals would actually use.

Let's take NY for example (just using this as an example since I'm a NYC native).  Not trying to pick on people here, but some of these names are not ones that locals would ever use.  For example, NY-12- no one calls this area "Queensboro."  People only use that word when they're referring to the bridge itself.  Likewise, no one says "Manhattan East" or "Manhattan West."  When people refer to each half of Manhattan, they say "West Side" or "East Side," (or if adjacent to Central Park), "Upper West Side" and "Upper East Side."  Road signs use those terms too, so it's not just a colloquial thing.  When people go north in Manhattan, they'll say "I'm going uptown" (or "downtown" if heading south).  Nobody says "Manhattan North."  If people are going to a specific neighborhood in Uptown Manhattan, they'll say it ("I'm going to my friend's place in Washington Heights.")

Or take VA for another example.  In the Tidewater/Hampton Roads area, nobody says "Tidewater South" (or north).  That's not a thing.  My suggestions for the region would be:

VA-2: VA Beach
VA-3: Norfolk
VA-4: Richmond

(these are using the new VA boundaries)


Here are some NYC suggestions:

NY-5: Jamaica
NY-6: Queens
NY-7: Brooklyn
NY-8: Bedford-Stuyvesant/Canarsie (would also work- East New York)
NY-9: Flatbush
NY-10: Manhattan- West Side
NY-11: Staten Island
NY-12: Manhattan- East Side
NY-13: Harlem (or maybe "Upper Manhattan" since it also contains Inwood, Wash Heights etc)
NY-14: East Bronx/Queens (would also work- Pelham)
NY-15: South Bronx


Some explanations:

NY-6 is Queens since it contains a lot of the quintessential Queens neighborhoods (Kew Gardens, Forest Hills, Flushing, etc), and no one defining neighborhood.  Same thing for NY-7, since all the "quintessential" Brooklyn neighborhoods are there- Bklyn Heights, Williamsburg, Park Slope, Cobble Hill, etc.  NY-10 and 12 are hard since they have random pieces of Brooklyn and Queens in them, but I went with Manhattan for two reasons- first, it's the most defining characteristic of the district, and second, for brevity ("NY-12: Manhattan-East Side/Astoria/Long Island City" is too cumbersome).  

NY-14 is the hardest to name I think, since it has large sections of two boroughs and those two sections are very different.  Maybe you could do East Bronx/Jackson Heights or Pelham/Queens, to differentiate it from the other Queens district.