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  • Barney's Co-Op is the most recent Manhattan transplant to the eclectic Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn's Cobble Hill neighborhood (some people call this 'BoCoCa', for Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carol Gardens, but, you know).

    Shop That Street: Atlantic Avenue Destinations The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Barney's Co-Op is the most recent Manhattan transplant to the eclectic Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn's Cobble Hill neighborhood some people call this 'BoCoCa', for Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carol Gardens, but, you know.

    Shop That Street: Atlantic Avenue Destinations The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • NYCgo. com, NYC's official marketing and tourism organization published their Brooklyn neighborhood highlights for "BoCoCa", Brooklyn Heights, and Dumbo.

    Dumbo NYC 2009

  • GuestofaGuest's Billy Gray points out that the other boroughs fell far below Manhattan's rankings, with Brooklyn peaking at #276 with 11231, "which includes Red Hook and the regrettable BoCoCa acro-hood."

    The Most EXPENSIVE Zip Codes In New York (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Newly compiled from three Brooklyn neighbourhoods – Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens – BoCoCa is where you move when you've tired of Williamsburg's twentysomething hepcat shenanigans.

    Let's move to BoCoCa and Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York City Tom Dyckhoff 2010

  • Red Hook used to be BoCoCa beyond the pale, a decaying crack den past the Gowanus Expressway.

    Let's move to BoCoCa and Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York City Tom Dyckhoff 2010

  • New Yorkers are fond, perhaps overly so, of assembling ever-creative names for newly hot neighborhoods, from NoMad (north of Madison Square Park) to SoBro (the South Bronx) to BoCoCa (Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens).

    NYT > Home Page By JULIE SATOW 2011

  • "My neighbors, most of them don't even speak English, are not going to send their kindergartners to BoCoCa," he said, using a portmanteau for the neighborhoods of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens.

    NYT > Home Page By ANNA M. PHILLIPS 2011

  • NoLita, RAMBO, GoCaGa, BoCoCa, etc. - are meant to give comfort to the prospective property buyer or renter that the neighborhood has arrived and is now officially hip.

    New York Daily Photo Brian Dubé 2010

  • Presented by Husky Dog Productions (HDP), the 10 day Festival will take place throughout the BoCoCa community and encompass all aspects of music, theater, visual and performing arts.

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2010

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  • From Wikipedia:

    BoCoCa is "three adjacent neighborhoods in the Brooklyn borough of New York City: Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, and Carroll Gardens."

    December 4, 2015