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
great pic! fat and frumpy park slope. yup.
it’s the opposite of sophisticated and fashionable.
do not miss the human eyesores there at all.
also lived in the LES, the housing stock is terrible for what you pay and it’s impossible to escape the douchebaggery drunk people at night.
at least in brooklyn most nightlife is typically centralized on commercial strips – so it’s easy to avoid dried vomit on your way to the subway in the morning.
I have to defend Nate Silver, the man who constructed the statistical model that generated the NY Mag rankings. Nate is a political statistician who runs 538.com and is very transparent about how he generates rankings based on data. He was a essential reading during the Obama election. Anyway, he included his methodology here: http://nymag.com/realestate/neighborhoods/2010/65355/
You can play with the criteria as you see fit, but when you click on the link–that’s the pre-set for how he generated the list. Move affordability down just a little and watch the traditional Manhattan nabes zoom to the top of the list. Push importance of school rankings to zero and see what happens.
Don’t hate on the data, interact with it. Oh, wait, wrong webiste…
and FYI I don’t know Nate, just a fan
I read that Hamill was one of the 4 people who wrested the gun from Sirhan Sirhan.
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The only problem with LES is, it is not as kids friendly as PS.
GOOD. not every neighborhood in nyc SHOULD be kid friendly. what does “kid friendly” even mean!? in order for a city to be, well, a city, there NEEDS to be certain neighborhoods that do not welcome children.
*rob*
Oh, and Benson…you prolly missed this last week…I’m BoerumHill, doppleganger is Boerum Hill.
But you can also call me *Precious*BoerumHill if you prefer. #3 with a bullet, FWIW.
One man’s meat (no homo) is another man’s poison.
Aye, thanks for clarifying Benson.
I don’t read New York mag, so I guess I haven’t seen the articles you reference. I do like some of Hamill’s books, and he is a FANTASTIC speaker (strictly off-the-cuff). He’s gotta be pushing 80 y.o. now? Anyway, I have always thought of him as the quintessential New Yorker (with the exception of his 15 apartment moves…most folks hang onto a great apartment forever once they find one).
The only problem with LES is, it is not as kids friendly as PS. If the magazine took that in to consideration, which it seems they did, then LES will take a beating.
I love LES as much as any under 40 NYer, but it aint a family nabe like many top Brooklyn nabes.
I also love Queens – Jackson Heights, Sunnyside and Forest Hills are great family oriented nabes.