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The dating site OKCupid created the “heat map” of New York City above for Daily Intel, and it represents “the response rate of each neighborhood per number of messages received. The darker the color, the more likely residents of the neighborhood are to flirt back.” More interesting, though, are some of the observations “Christian Rudder, OkCupid’s resident data whiz,” shares about Brooklyn:
-“After analyzing how members rated profile photos on a scale of 1 to 5, the numbers show that the most attractive potential mates by borough live in the West Village, the Upper East Side, and Brooklyn Heights.”
-“Among Kings County’s happy horndogs, Bushwick shines forth as an examplar of both maximum interest in sex and minimum discernment in message response. Rudder’s explanation for Bushwick’s rise to the top? ‘Viva la loft parties!'”
-“‘The deeper into Brooklyn you go, the kinkier people get — it runs along Bushwick Avenue to Pennsylvania Ave. to the sea,’ [says Rudder]. In ascending order of depravity, the rankings go Williamsburg, then East Williamsburg, then Bed Stuy and Bushwick, then Cypress Hill, then East New York. Relative kinkiness was analyzed by looking at answers to ¡muy scientifico! queries like, ‘Do you like to receive pain during sex?’ ‘Have you ever tried anilingus’ ‘How many sex toys do you own?’ and so on.”
‘The Deeper Into Brooklyn You Go, the Kinkier People Get’ [Daily Intel]
Map by OKCupid from Daily Intel.


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  1. “grown up frat boys going to there finance jobs.”

    haha – you just described about 60% of the people who live in my building in williamsburg. tons of banana republic khakis and tumi bags rolling outta here in the morning. baller.

    yay – it’s almost spring – they’re gonna break out the black north face fleeces soon.

  2. yes, brooklyn heights – super hotties! old people eating chinese, moms in sneakers. grown up frat boys going to there finance jobs. hot hotness. hard to believe there’s a single good looking person in the whole hood. rich men, yes! good looking, not so much. but, doesn’t money=attractive?