[Cirrus]

I'm not exactly sure how to explain this phenomenon, so hopefully some examples will do it well enough: New York has its “Wall Street financiers” Washington has its “K Street lobbyists” What other cities have similar streets with a business identity attached to them, and where the business is used in common parlance along those lines?

[AZheat]

London has Fleet Street where many of the major newspapers are located.

[brickell]

Madison Ave Ad man- NYC

The closest I can come up with for Florida is Ocean Drive and it's relation to modelling and fashion. They do have their own magazine. I've never heard anyone referred to as an "Ocean Drive model" though.

[JEH-NYC]

Madison Avenue (NYC) is often associated with advertising, though I am not sure if that's still a reality these days.
(oops! Brickell beat me to it!)

[Cirrus]

Do people say "Fleet Street reporters"?

[shappy]

for Toronto:

- Bay Street Bankers
- Jarvis Street Hookers (hey, business is business)

[edsas]

LA's and Beverly Hill's Wilshire Blvd. is the street address "to have" if you work in the entertainment industry. But there's no single profession within the industry that identifies as the Wilshire Blvd (fill in the blanks). It's the closest thing I can think of in LA, though.

[AZheat]

Cirrus,
Yes, they're often called "Fleet Street reporters". I saw the expression many times in a google search and of course it's been famous in the British publishing industry for a very long time.

[beesbees]

Except there's no newspapers based there anymore...

[AZheat]

Beesbees,
Well, I wouldn't argue that point with someone who lives in London but I believe Fleet street has been famous for about 250 years in the publishing industry and I understand that many businesses left in the 1980's. I was just trying to think of a famous street associated with a profession and it popped into my head. I'm old, maybe I'm just showing my age.

[vid]

New York had Newspaper Row. No Newspapers left there but it was famous.

[MayorOfChicago]

Chicago has Printers Row and Jewelers Row. Not sure how active they are now though.

[HomeInMyShoes]

In the old days, St. Louis had Washington Avenue as a great American garment district.

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h217/HomeInMyShoes/ThreeHours/DSC_0041.jpg

[Latoso]

LaSalle St. Bankers in Chicago.

[marmorek]

Vancouver - Hastings Street Drug Dealers

[staff]

Celsius Street Hookers
Industri Street Drug Dealers
Von Rosen's Street Gangsters

etc.

[CONative]

Denver - 17th St. ("Wall Street of the West")

[bryson662001]

In Philadelphia: Pine St = Antique Row = Antique stores

S 4th St = Fabric Row = Tailors and fabric stores

Sansom St = Jewler's Row = jewlery stores

S Broad St = Ave of the Arts = Theaters and
performing arts

[bcp]

denver

17th street attorneys / firms

[The Chemist]

Calgary: 4th Avenue oilmen?

[Shawn]

Beacon Hill Brahmins, used since coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1860.

[beesbees]

Beesbees,
Well, I wouldn't argue that point with someone who lives in London but I believe Fleet street has been famous for about 250 years in the publishing industry and I understand that many businesses left in the 1980's. I was just trying to think of a famous street associated with a profession and it popped into my head. I'm old, maybe I'm just showing my age.

It was once a major publishing centre.. although the last agency, Reuters, left in 2005. (From Wikipedia, as reliable as that is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Street )

[Xelebes]

Refinery Row (14th Street NW) - oil refineries
Avenue of Champions (118th Avenue NW) - sports venues


in good ol' Edmonton

[ctman987]

Would these streets counts as hearts of cultural business identities:

Mulberry Street - Little Italy - NYC
Hanover Street - Little Italy - Boston
Atwells Avenue - Little Italy - Providence
Franklin Avenue - Little Italy Hartford

[HurricaneHugo]

San Diego:

B Street Bankers
El Cajon Boulevard Hookers

[Overground]

Do people say "Fleet Street reporters"?

The term Fleet-Streeter is used quite often. Of course most of the papers have now moved to Canary Wharf but I think the old nickname will still be used.

[Taller Better]

Except there's no newspapers based there anymore...

Doesn't matter. "Fleet Street" often refers to the newspaper business in general. It is a metaphor used internationally.

[giovanni sasso]

In Philadelphia: Pine St = Antique Row = Antique stores

S 4th St = Fabric Row = Tailors and fabric stores

Sansom St = Jewler's Row = jewlery stores

S Broad St = Ave of the Arts = Theaters and
performing arts


yeah but none of them are "blank street blankers".

HOWEVER ... the flyers -- you know, the team with the worst record in the NHL -- are still called the broad street bullies despite not winning the stanley cup in 31 years.

elsewhere, we've got kensington ave hookers ... i'm sure the 13th street boys have a name i'm not aware of. (perhaps "13th street boys"?)

[volguus zildrohar]

That would be 'Bois'.