I realize this is an old post, but I've just now joined FlyerTalk, and it's the first post I'd like to respond to.
I was born and grew up in the Two Bridges neighborhood, and we definitely called it that. There was a community newspaper that included the name, too. I don't know if it's used much any more (I haven't lived there for a long time). The neighborhood is part of the larger Lower East Side, which at the time also included what's now called the East Village -- a name created by real estate people. I still think of the East Village as part of the Lower East Side.
Originally Posted by
c_stanley
Interesting. In a lot of years in NYC I've never heard a single person use the phrase "two bridges" though. Including a friend that lived smack in the middle of that area on the map. That's the lower east side last I checked, mostly including parts of Chinatown, or the Seaport area, depending on where those lines are exactly. But it's subjective I guess. Though it's not subjective that Chinatown runs well under the Manhattan bridge. If every single storefront has only Chinese characters, that's a pretty good sign. He should have gone for Five Points if he wanted to be creative.
But the real crime is calling Hells Kitchen "Clinton" which is common to taxi cab stickers and... well... basically nothing else.
But it's interesting.