Sometimes we wish Lockhart Steele would be down here in D.C. We think he’d have a field day analyzing this new development set to go up across the Union Station railyards in Northeast in an area we like to call NewYoFla, the area immediately to the east and west of the intersection of New York and Florida avenues near the railroad tracks.

Anticipating the arrival of the New York Avenue-Florida Avenue-Gallaudet University (that’s an awful mouthful, just call it NewYoFla) in-fill metrorail station on the Red Line, KL Associates and the Neighborhood Development Co. have staked their claim in the neighborhood with a new building named after, from what we can tell, New York Avenue. In NewYoFla, geographic realities seem to all be relative as The New Yorker, to be located at 300 L St. NE, is actually closer to Florida Avenue. So maybe the developers named the building after the metorail station, even though the new station isn’t technically at New York Avenue.

It says all you need to do is walk just six blocks south to the “Union Station Metro and all of its fabulous amenities” (perhaps they’re citing the Bourbon Chicken in the food court, “Yummy! Yummy!”). Or you can walk three blocks north to the “New York Avenue Metro,” even though the closest metrorail station entrance will be a block away on M Street.

Anyhow, we think it could be called the Ellington East. And maybe it’s right for you.