"Dividing Line" Streets in NYC (Mastic, Ridge: neighborhoods, living)

[SonnyDaze]

What are some streets across the 5 boroughs that a) divide two neighborhoods or b) divide two parts of the same neighborhood that have stark demographic differences?

Some examples that come to mind are...

-E 96th Street (divides the more wealthy UES from the poorer East Harlem)

-Broadway in Washington Heights/Inwood (east side predominantly Dominican, west side more racially mixed with a lot more white people).


What are some more well known or even lesser known streets?

[LexAveExp5]

Lol I live right on one. Hillside Ave in Queens divides Jamaica from Jamaica Estates

[ShirlMastic Beach]

Cypress Ave, Wyckoff Ave, Irving Ave, and Elderts Lane are what divide Brooklyn and Queens. These are the only non-physical boundaries between any of the NYC boros from one another.

[Kefir King]

Houston St., dividing SOHO from East and West Villages.

[popartist]

Having crossed it on the B16 bus quite a bit lately, Brooklyn's 11th Avenue in the 50s seems to be a very solid dividing line between the Asian neighborhood from Sunset Park and the Hasidic neighborhood of Borough Park.

[RagerNYC]

Broadway in Brooklyn separates Bed-Stuy from Bushwick.

The L train separates Brownsville from ENY.

60th Street from 14- Bay parkway separates Borough Park from Bensonhurst

65 street from 1-Ft Ham Pkwy separates Sunset Park from Bay Ridge.

[Foamposite]

Broadway between Bushwick and Bed Stuy

Coney Island Ave between Kensington and Flatbush

Dyckman Street between Inwood and Washington Heights

[Foamposite]

Originally Posted by Kefir King

Houston St., dividing SOHO from East and West Villages.

I was gonna post this about the LES/East Village, but some traditionalists insist that the East Village is actually the LES

[Foamposite]

Originally Posted by ShirlMastic Beach

Cypress Ave, Wyckoff Ave, Irving Ave, and Elderts Lane are what divide Brooklyn and Queens. These are the only non-physical boundaries between any of the NYC boros from one another.

What about Marble Hill?

[pierrepont7731]

Originally Posted by Foamposite

What about Marble Hill?

What about it? It's pretty tiny and I can't think of any street that really separates anything. Maybe Broadway with the housing projects where you have really poor people, but no one is exactly living it up in Marble Hill.