reference to the Farsi language, which is a language used officially within Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. The Upper East Side where "everyone can afford Manolo Blahnik shoes" Botox The Bronx Bulimics Central Park, Manhattan Jersey City, home of a Muslim community where women wear a chador. Also a pun on The Door Store, a well-known New York furniture store. E-ZPass, an electronic toll collection system, as well as the Pashtun ethnic group From a Yiddish adjective meaning "stinking, smelly" describing the sometime aromas of the New Jersey industrial wastelands just beyond the Palisades along the Hudson River. There is a popular Middle Eastern Restaurant in that part of Brooklyn called Fattoosh and Yiddish expressions of negativity ("feh!", "ptooey!") for a part of The Bronx that is considered dangerous. Flatbush, Brooklyn This is in Brooklyn, where this place name sounds like the local pronunciation of the popular local expression "Forget about it." The neighborhood of Chelsea, currently a very "gay" part of Manhattan. Also a play on Turkmenistan. The Hudson River. "gribenes" (conventional Yiddish-English transliteration) is an Eastern European Jewish delicacy, "cracklings from rendered chicken fat" Halibut This is the actual name of the road depicted and is the only real name on the map. According to Meyerowitz, the reason is simply that the name is inherently funny: "The name never failed to make me laugh when I approached it." Hip hop with -abad nameplace ending. This overlaps roughly with Bedford-Stuyvesant, the most heavily African-American neighborhood in Brooklyn. and A reference to ranting and being irate, as well as to Iran and Iraq. ... (Also note the jagged lines marking the territory, a reference to the effects of caffeine.) (Conn.) Southwestern Connecticut, a wealthy area that could be considered a stronghold of WASP culture and the article of clothing often associated with them. A pun on candy bar and Kandahar. "Can't stand it" This is in southern Connecticut, with the translation being "car keys", a reference to the many NY workers who commute to the city from Connecticut. This is in Harlem, Manhattan, the "Khlintun" part being a reference to President Clinton's office location in Harlem. Also, "Tunisia" is a primarily Islamic/Arab country in northern Africa. Curs and Kurds A pun on Chechnya and "kvetch". LeFrak City, a housing complex in Queens Presumably referring to Morningside Heights, neighborhood of Columbia University, a primarily "liberal" institution. World Trade Center site Named after