Brooklyn Dominates NY Mag's Best Nabe List
New York Magazine serves up one of its most link-baity and click-generating issues in recent memory with its list of the 50 most livable neighborhoods in the city. There’s plenty of number crunching (the formula weights Safety at 8 percent and Green Space at 5 percent, for example) and a disclaimer that “it is of…
New York Magazine serves up one of its most link-baity and click-generating issues in recent memory with its list of the 50 most livable neighborhoods in the city. There’s plenty of number crunching (the formula weights Safety at 8 percent and Green Space at 5 percent, for example) and a disclaimer that “it is of course impossible to come up with a completely objective answer.” Still, there can be only one Number One, and this year it’s much-maligned Park Slope, land of the stroller moms and annoying co-op members, some detractors would say. “It’s blessed with excellent public schools, low crime, vast stretches of green space, scores of restaurants and bars, a diverse retail sector, and a population of more artists and creatives than even its reputation for comfortable bohemianism might suggest (more, in fact, than younger, trendier Williamsburg),” says MY Mag. “It might not be everyone’s idea of a perfect neighborhood, but statistically speaking (by a hair), there’s nowhere better.” Amazingly, the Lower East Side comes in at Number 2 (really?), followed by Sunnyside, Queens at Number 3 and Cobble Hill & Boerum Hill lumped together at Number 4. Brooklyn continues to dominate the Top Ten with Greenpoint at Number 5, Brooklyn Heights at Number 6 and another combo, Carroll Gardens & Gowanus, at Number 7 and Prospect Heights at Number 9.
The Most Livable Neighborhoods in New York [NY Mag]
Photo by Pete Biggs
This photograph was taken 3 years ago. Not exactly current….
How did we make it to 130 comments and no one has mentioned that woman’s giant, hideous tramp stamp?? Or is it too big and clumsy to fall in that category?? Just wondering 😉
WHAT??!! BED-STUY didn’t make the list?!!! Oh, wait. A 5 year old girl outside playing got shot there last Sunday afternoon during a drive-by.
I’m surprised by Prospect Heights, as most residents there complain about how expensive it is to dine there.
Not to mention the killer up hill walk to the Museum.
Prospect Heights….wow.
Eww…you look at posting history? I didn’t know people did that. How does that work for you? That’s for those serious prove-a-point frownstoners. Staying on topic. I did not miss the point, but thanks for trying.
Hahaha, cillmylandlord, youre missing NOP’s general point…forest for the trees dolly. As for ‘hater’, I glanced at your posting history…pot/kettle/black.
You forgot to point out on your negativity tour…New York City as a whole was a giant slum in the 80s according the rest of the U.S. I grew up in the South and moved to Brooklyn without knowledge of neighborhood. But I do know every urban city changes. The only places I don’t know that change aren’t urban and The Steel Magnolias live there. Pointing out neighborhoods that you and your family thought were slums in the 50s is “shabby genteel”…those neighborhoods were someone else’s paradise and it makes you look like a hater.
cillmylandlord:
Just pointing out the irony that today’s “best” neighborhoods weren’t always thought so.
The cycle of New York neighborhood changes is remarkable.
Which means these ratings probably will pass, too.
NOP