I recently moved to Lincoln Place between Washington and Classon Avenues. This puts me on the Crown Heights definitively states that the border between the neighborhoods is Washington Avenue. Most older New Yorkers hew to this view as well, but this map illustrates why new residents of the disputed zone between Washington and Franklin resist the characterization of the blocks as Crown Heights.

The Prospect Heights wiki is more ambivalent about the location of the border. Here I kind of feel that the wiki reflects the attempt of recent arrivals to the area to get lumped in with the “diverse” Prospect Heights instead of the black Crown Heights.

Right I’m leaning towards saying I live in Crown Heights, but I’m also thinking about saying that I live on (air quotes) the disputed border between Prospect Heights and Crown Heights.