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Vine Street functions as Cincinnati's central thoroughfare. It bisects the
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neighborhood, as well as the adjacent
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neighborhood. The street also serves as the dividing line for the "east" and "west" sides of the city. All east-west addresses in the city start at zero at Vine Street. It heads mostly north-northeast from the riverfront area through the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, ascending between Clifton Heights and Mount Auburn until it courses the uptown plateau past the
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. As the eastern perimeter of the campus and the Environmental Protection Agency's regional offices, Vine is called Jefferson Avenue, though it directly connects with Vine Street on its north and south ends. An adjunct, known as Short Vine, essentially parallels Jefferson Avenue and functions as a central artery of the neighborhood of
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, an off-campus business district with a number of shops, music venues, and restaurants. Vine Street and Jefferson Avenue were both realigned in the 1970s to provide a bypass around the Corryville Neighborhood Business District. Previously, Vine St and Short Vine formed a five-leg intersection with Auburn Avenue and East and West Corry Streets. The south legs of Vine and North leg of Auburn were removed to make room for a commercial shopping center. However, Vine St and Short Vine still divide the east and west sides of Cincinnati. The Jefferson Avenue "bypass" is still on the west side of the city. The north end of Short Vine connects to Vine Street at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive intersection. Vine Street (north of Jefferson) descends past the
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and the Vine Street Hill Cemetery. Near the bottom of Vine Street Hill, the street leaves the City of Cincinnati and takes a northwestern heading through the independent entities of
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, home of Ivorydale (Manufacturing heart of
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). In Saint Bernard, it passes beneath the
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, as this segment of
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is known. After a railroad crossing near Ivorydale, it meets Spring Grove Avenue. Vine Street then enters Elmwood Place and serves as the municipality's central boulevard. Vine continues in a northerly direction through the Cincinnati city neighborhood of
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, where it merges with
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at the terminus of Paddock Road. The
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crosses over Vine Street. Passing on through the Cincinnati neighborhood of
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, Vine Street then becomes Springfield Pike when it enters
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. Springfield Pike continues through Woodlawn, Ohio. At the north end of Woodlawn, entering
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, there is a fork in the road. Ohio State Route 4 and Springfield Pike veer off to the left towards downtown
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, while Ohio State Route 747 continues straight north as Congress Avenue through Glendale, and later as Princeton Pike into Springdale near the former
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. Most of the buildings on Vine Street are commercial, and represent the city's historic business district. Vine Street is also known for its large amount of pedestrian traffic, particularly around
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.Chittajallu, Diiip Roy. "How Good Is the Street? a Characteristic - Based Evaluation of Vine, Walnut, and Main Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio". University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, 2004, Pg. 35-42


Places of interest

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* Corporate Headquarters of Kroger * Over-the-Rhine Neighborhood * Bogart's Marquee * Vine Street Hill Cemetery * Main Branch of Cincinnati Public Libraries


External links


Politico Magazine: "The Street That Riots Couldn’t Kill" by MARK PETERSON and NICOLE NAREA
June 16, 2016


References

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