The Yankees ended up winning the Subway Series in five games, with Jeter winning the MVP after batting .409 with a pair of home runs, but had it played out differently, the shortstop may have been looking for a new neighborhood to call home.

“I’ve joked about it before, but I really mean it – I moved to Manhattan when I was 21 years old, but if we didn’t win that World Series against the Mets, I think I would’ve moved out of the city,” Jeter recently told YES Network’s Jack Curry on “YES We’re Here.”

“In my mind, it was a battle for New York, and we were playing for something pretty special, winning three championships in a row.”

The Yankees had won the World Series in 1998 and 1999, beating the Padres and Braves, but the 2000 October classic came with a different kind of pressure — beyond just becoming the fourth team to three-peat in MLB history.

The Mets had won Game 3 to cut the Yankees’ series lead to 2-1 before Jeter led off Game 4 at Shea Stadium with a first-pitch home run off Bobby Jones, stealing the momentum back and sending the Yankees on their way.

“The Mets had a great team, and all eyes were on New York. We had to win,” Jeter said. “I felt as though we had everything to lose. I hate it when a team says, ‘well, we have nothing to lose,’ because you have a World Series to lose. But, I think for us it was a little bit more than that, so thank God we were able to win that series.”