Yankees v. Mets in NY neighborhoods

[ElHalo]

This is kind of an ambitious project. It will take quite some time, but I'd like to do it.

There are a lot of neighborhoods in New York City. I was trying to compile a list of which ones are predominately Yankee fan or Met fan centric. The list goes:

Staten Island:
Annadale
Arlington
Arrochar
Bay Terrace
Bloomfield
Bulls Head
Butler Manner
Castleton Corners
Charleston
Chealsea (not to be confused with Chealsea in Manhattan)
Clifton
Concrod
Dongan Hills
Elm Park
Eltingville
Emmerson Hills
Graniteville
Grant City
Grasmere
Great Kills
Greenridge
Grymes Hills
Heartland Village
Howland Hook
Hugeunot
Lighthous Hill
Midland Beach
New Dorp
New Dorp Beach
New Springville
New Brighton
Oakwood
Oldtown
Pleasant Plains
Port Ivory
Port Richmond
Prince's Bay
Randall Manor
Richmond Town
Richmond Valley
Rosebank
Rossville
St. George
Silver Acres
Shore Lake
South Beach
Stapleton
Sunnyside (not to be confused with Sunnyside, Queens)
Totd Hill
Tompkinsville
Tottenville
Travis
West Brighton
Westerleigh
Woodrow

Manhattan
Battery Park
Carnegie Hill
Chelsea
Chinatown
Civic Center
Clinton
East Harlem
East Village
Financial District
Flatiron
Grammercy
Greenwich Village
Hamilton Heights
Harlem
Inwood
Lennox Hill
Lincoln Center
Little Italy
Lower East Side
Manhattan Valley
Manhattanville
Marble Hill*
Midtown
Midtown South
Morningside Heights
Murray Hill
NoHo
Roosevelt Island
SoHo
Spanish Harlem (this isn't listed by NYC as a registered neighborhood, but in common usage it is)
Stuyvesant Town
Sutton Place
TriBeCa
Tutor City
Turtle Bay
Upper East Side
Upper West Side
Washington Heights
West Village
Yorkville

Outerboroughs to follow.

* This area was the very northern tip of Manhattan up until sometime in the 1800's, when the Hudson river switched its course, and this seperated from Inwood. Technically speaking, it's still under Manhattan's jurisdiction, even though it's now physically in the Bronx.

[Dasperp]

Generally speaking, i'd say Manhattan is mixed but leans Yankee, SI and the Bronx are heavily Yankee, and Queens and Brooklyn are heavily Met. It wouldn't surprise me if there were more Mets fans than Yankee fans in the city itself. I'd say the Yankees' advantage comes from Jersey, Long Island, and Connecticut.

[DoubleX]

Generally speaking, i'd say Manhattan is mixed but leans Yankee, SI and the Bronx are heavily Yankee, and Queens and Brooklyn are heavily Met. It wouldn't surprise me if there were more Mets fans than Yankee fans in the city itself. I'd say the Yankees' advantage comes from Jersey, Long Island, and Connecticut.

Those are my observations as well, except that I'd say that I've observed that Staten Island and Long Island are more evenly split, if not more towards Mets fans. From my observations, I'd say:

Manhattan: Yankees
Bronx: Yankees
Brooklyn: Mets
Queens: Mets
Staten Island: Mets
Long Island: Mets
New Jersey: Yankees
Up-State NY: Yankees
Connecticut: Yankees

[Mattingly]

Manhattan: Yanks/Mets
Bronx: Yanks
Brooklyn: Mets
Queens: Mets
Staten Island: Yanks (not sure, but they do have a minor league team there)
Long Island: Mets
New Jersey: Yanks/Mets (and some Red Sox)
Up-State NY: Yanks
Connecticut: Yanks/Red Sox (depending upon whether the New England portion or not)

[56 chmps]

Manhattan: Yanks/Mets
Bronx: Yanks
Brooklyn: Mets
Queens: Mets
Staten Island: Yanks (not sure, but they do have a minor league team there)
Long Island: Mets
New Jersey: Yanks/Mets (and some Red Sox)
Up-State NY: Yanks
Connecticut: Yanks/Red Sox (depending upon whether the New England portion or not)

I am not sure about you guys but i live on long island and it is mostly yankee fans so i would have to change that one but the rest of the seem correct except connecticut that's a yankee territory.

[Mattingly]

I am not sure about you guys but i live on long island and it is mostly yankee fans so i would have to change that one but the rest of the seem correct except connecticut that's a yankee territory.
Where in Long Island do you live? Or as the people who live there call it, "Lon-ngggggggg EYE-land".

Since they don't have a baseball team, only a hockey team (the Islanders, of course), and since they're next to Queens (Suffolk County, anyway), I thought there would be more Mets fans.

When I lived in Brooklyn, people--even friends of mine--would routinely ask me, "How could I be a Yankee fan here?"

Little did I know that I'd lived a few blocks away from their former management office by Montague St and Cadman Plaza. I think that Court St began on the next block, and it was right near Brooklyn Federal Courthouse.

Despite this being a Yankee-Mets thread, I have known a small number of Red Sox fans in my area, but I haven't obviously asked everyone I meet which baseball team they're a fan of. In Connecticut, which seems in the middle of the rivalry, I'd presume there are primarily Yankee and Red Sox fans, as some parts of CT are in New England and some aren't. The same Metro-North train which travels along Grand Central in Manhattan, Harlem and the Bronx, also travels to parts of Connecticut, so that may be a reason we have Yankee fans there.

[56 chmps]

Where in Long Island do you live? Or as the people who live there call it, "Lon-ngggggggg EYE-land".

Not being rude but nobody calls in lon-ngggggggggggg eye-land we call it Loung EYELIN lol:laugh.

I have lived in both suffolk and nassau and both are predominately yankee fans. Just observations from everyday life, and every school i have ever gone to has also been all yankee fans.

[VIBaseball]

In Connecticut, which seems in the middle of the rivalry, I'd presume there are primarily Yankee and Red Sox fans, as some parts of CT are in New England and some aren't.

It seems odd to think that parts of Connecticut could be considered not New England. But leaving that aside, former Commissioner and Yale President Bart Giamatti remarked that the historical dividing line between Yanks and Sox was New Haven.

I myself grew up in CT as a Mets fan. It's a minority that shouldn't be overlooked.

[DoubleX]

It seems odd to think that parts of Connecticut could be considered not New England. But leaving that aside, former Commissioner and Yale President Bart Giamatti remarked that the historical dividing line between Yanks and Sox was New Haven.

I was just going to post that myself. New Haven is for sure the dividing line. South of New Haven is Yankees/New York Metro area, north of New Haven is Red Sox/New England area. Even New York City radio dies at New Haven. There is a short tunnel on the Merit Parkway just outside of New Haven. On the side closer to New York City, New York radio comes in pretty well, on the other side (which isn't very far), New York radio is virtually dead.