Stuff known as "The [blank]"

The Central Intelligence Agency is commonly known as “The Agency.”
The movie/television industry is referred to by people in show business as “The Industry.”

What other organizations, locations, & other stuff are known as “The [whatever]” even if they’re not unique?

I think this may be a very long list, but here’s one: The British royal family apparently refer to themselves as “The Firm”.

The CIA training facility known as “The Farm”

What I’m gunning for are things that are officially known as Such-and-Such [Thing] but are colloquially referred to as “The [Thing]” – for example, L.A.'s San Fernando Valley (one of multiple named valleys, but commonly called “The Valley”) would count, whereas The Band would not. :wink:

The farm known as “the Farm.”

Didn’t the CIA use to be nicknamed “the Company”? Has that been dropped?

And can we please stop capitalizing the the in the middle of a sentence?

Same for Stanford University.

Also, The Donald.

I thought CIA was not “The CIA” for the same reason you don’t say “THE God”. At least according to the film The Good Shepherd. Although they are inconsistent in the use of THE on their own web site.

Anyhow,

Wall Street is often called “The Street”.

Law, accounting and consulting firms frequently refer to themselves as “the firm”, which thanks to The Firm by John Grisham now sounds more sinister and pretentous than simply saying “the company”.

The City of London, and metonymically the banking and commerce located in it, are referred to as “the City.”

The Hoff?

A lot of people I know here in Chicago call the John Hancock Tower “The Cock.”

Speaking of Chicago, we have The Bean.

Similar to “the Agency”:

“The Mossad” is simply Hebrew for “the Institute”; the organization’s full name is “the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations.”

I once read that the Company actually was a nickname bestowed by outsiders. The people inside the CIA didn’t like it and used the Agency instead.

By the same token, I don’t think the British intelligence agency MI-6 was called the Circus until it was given that nickname in fiction.

In English is it typically referred to as “The Mossad”? I think, other than your post, I’ve only ever seen it as “Mossad”.

In most union contracts, the formally defined terms of art for the two parties are “The Company” and “The Association”, “The Organization”, or some similar generic.

Heh, I think that’s one of Alessan’s peeves. But I’ve been reading (and writing) “the Mossad” for a long time.

This, of course, is true of many industries.

I’ve heard journalists rather pretentiously refer to their newspapers as “the Paper,” whereas everyone else say “the Courier.” Not sure what’s up with that.

Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS.

People in the bay area refer to San Francisco as “the City” also. When in college, anytime some one said they were going into the city, I’d comment that it was a long drive to LA.

As is San Francisco.