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[randomness]

"Upstate starts at ______ Street"

125th
105th
96th
14th
Houston

All of these have hits on google when you search for `"Upstate starts at" street'.

(I have no idea what the person who said 105th is talking about. I could imagine someone saying 110th, since it's "Central Park North". I figure 105th is a typo.)

I was thinking of the quote "The Midlands start at Tottenham Court Road", from the movie Kinky Boots, and realized I'd heard something parallel said about Manhattan. For people who know London or New York, these are basically equivalent hyperbolic statements. One may even have inspired the other.

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[redbird]

I have been known to refer to my neighborhood as Upstate Manhattan.

[randomness]

I like that. :)

[donnad.livejournal.com]

I'm from Massachusetts, Upstate New York starts at Albany/I90. :)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

The equivalent Boston statement has got to involve "Western MA starts at..."

So far I've googled and found "...the Canal" (don't know which canal they mean) and Route 128.

Given the number of people I know who live within 128 who think it's the edge of the outer darkness, I can see that being popular.

[donnad.livejournal.com]

"Western MA starts at..."

Worcester.


Northern Mass... North of route 2, outside of 495. Inside 495, probably north of the 128/93 interchange.

Anything inside 128 is "In Town"

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

Upstate New York starts above Poughkeepsie. That's where the commuter rail stops.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Nah, Western mass doesn't start until at least Sturbridge.

(I live in Holyoke, clearly I have a wacked estimation of this. :) )

[donnad.livejournal.com]

Sturbridge?

Sturbridge is pretty close to due south of Worcester. It's like one exit west on the Mass Pike. I consider Sturbridge South Central. Worcester being Central. And more people have heard of Worcester...

:)

[dirque.livejournal.com]

if you're taking commuter rail, you're already upstate.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Sturbridge is actually a third of the way from Worcester to Springfield. It's farther west of Worcester than 128 is west of Boston.

It *is* south, but it's also west.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Nope, it starts around the town Eureka.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Western Massachusetts starts around Eureka? I don't think so.

You can't get away with fobbing off your fiscal problems on us that easily.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

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