Looneyville, Erie County, New York

My all time favorite US place name.

Is that where Mel Blanc was from?

On a serious note, for anyone interested in the history of Looneyville, NY and how the post office got it's name, see below:

it's should be its.

"Pronoun trouble" ...

What Wt1's map and caption doesn't tell you is the real reason they changed the name: the name was needed elsewhere, for Manhattan and surrounding bouroughs.

Sure it wasn't based on a certain city near lake Michigan? Seems much more likely.

Nope. The letters NY don't lie.

Given that Looneyville is a suburb of Buffalo and about 10 miles from the Canadian border, the NY has nothing to do with NYC. Their weather is a lot closer to Chicago than NYC, and anyone would have to be looney to spend the winter in either.

Touched a NYC nerve, did I? I suppose most people in the former Looneyville and much of the rest of upstate NY feel about the same way about NYC as NYCers feel about them. It's the same with Chicago and downstate Illinois.

My soul is with the downstaters and upstaters rather than with denizens of either metropolis.

But, since Looneyville went the way of all flesh many moons ago, we can bury the hatchet now (to mix a bagful of metaphors)??? Pax et bonum to you.

Here's something more on Looneyville, NY that should put things in perspective. The Rand McNally Atlas suggests that in its heydey (1895) Looneyville, NY had a whopping population of 40 ... with an active post office! Here's a map showing the land owners and businesses of that community:

Actually Looneyville still exists as a hamlet, just Google it. It probably does not have a post office.

And after living in NYC for over 60 years I do dislike it a great deal when people make snide remarks about it, my experience is that most have never even been here. They just watched Death Wish or something and think it's true.

Oh, I've been there, many times. And my ancestors were there, farming and running an inn in what is now Lower Manhattan in the 1650s. They moved to Long Island in the later 1600s and on to Pennyslvania by the mid-late 1700s.

I don't mind snide remarks about Chicago--I make them myself. And as far as snide remarks are concerned, snide remarks by city-folk aboutabout Downstate or Upstate are just as snide, no more and no less. It's a city-country divide, not this city versus that city.