Recently, the Stranger discovered a neighborhood called South Park, after a pair of women were attacked by an alleged madman. When the Stranger acknowledges that Seattle’s city limits extend south of Yesler, it’s a noteworthy event. But sometimes, when their writers find themselves far from their cozy Capitol Hill nesting grounds, they don’t quite get those city limits–or neighborhood names–right.Case in point: This week, Lindy West writes about the newly-opened Hooters dueling-piano casino “of South Park,” which she describes as “a semi-industrial, working-class neighborhood south of Seattle.” A seemingly innocuous sentence, but one which contains a couple key errors that folks who live down that way will recognize in a heartbeat. One, the neighborhood of South Park, save for the “sliver by the river” which the city refuses to annex because it would consequently have to take on the costly South Park Bridge fix, is in Seattle proper, not “south of Seattle.” Second, the new Hooters isn’t even in South Park, it’s in Boulevard Park–which is, in fact, “a semi-industrial, working-class neighborhood south of Seattle.” See what a difference a word can make?
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