While he wants to get rid of the historically significant Fort George (the neighborhood isn’t abbreviated), he wants to maintain Hell’s Kitchen, which is also historically significant. Why let Yorkville and Lenox Hill get “absorbed” by the UES but keep Hell’s Kitchen separate from Midtown West?

Of course, there are arguments for all of these points. But what I’ve noticed is that “nice” neighborhoods — i.e. where pale people with decent incomes buy apartments (I’m one of them) — tend to get unique identities.

But “bad” neighborhoods, where poor people of color rent (and which, honestly, bear a striking resemblance to most of Manhattan in the 1970s), aren’t allowed to keep their identities. I figure it’s because they’re dismissed by the middle class as places unsafe to visit. Therefore, if the masses don’t visit them, how could they know that a little neighborhood is any different from the one next to it?

Ask an old-time Yorkviller about her neighborhood and how it’s different from those 10 blocks away. Or read “Here Is New York” by E. B. White.

(Wash Heights is huge, btw, bigger than LES, Alphabet City, Chinatown, Little Italy, NoLiTa combined. So why can’t Wash Heights have different neighborhoods? Fort George, Sherman Creek and Hudson Heights are real places, and they’re all different from one another.)

Sorry for going on so long — but why not let people decide for themselves what they want to call their homes?

South border of the Heights is 155th street.

Also, don’t call “midtown west” - “clinton”……it was and will always be Hell’s Kitchen.

Finally, Yorkville & Lenox Hill can just be absorbed by Upper East Side.