[I was about to post this comment, when I saw that Mark had said (more elegantly) almost the same thing.]

I agree with Gibson that such details are important, but I think he missed that the new name WAS given (as a numeric military designation), which paints the picture of a devastated Manhattan with no visible way to distinguish one area from another. It was "formerly" Central Park because it wasn't a park anymore (or even inhabitable) and the only way to identify the area is to grid everything off geographically.

These two little lines of text did an outstanding job of world-building and are a prime example of what made the film so enjoyable for me.

I'm pretty sure the headline for this article is screwed up. In print, a headline that includes a name or institution ("Congress") followed by a colon (:) followed by a point of view ("don't cripple...") always indicates that the institution or named person is the one espousing that opinion. When I read this headline, I expected an article that related Congress' opinion that the lawsuit should not be crippled. A proper headline would be "Doctorow: don't cripple the suit against the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program" or "Doctorow to Congress: don't cripple the suit against the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program" or "Congress, don't cripple the suit against the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program" with a comma instead of a colon.