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
OK… I’m going to rethink my suggestion of TriBeFA. It sounds like Tribeca with a speech impediment. The north slope kids would be made fun of.
I would be interested to hear The What’s thoughts on this.
Jeebus, Benson. I know its Monday, but starting out the week obliquely ripping on Pete Hamill’s musings…
Whole lotta grumps around here.
Jester;
Nope: tan Accord.
I actually think you could have a list that has some meaning based on set criteria –
But this list clearly wasnt done in any legitimate scientific manner…the results make ZERO sense
By benson on April 12, 2010 10:41 AM
Does anyone really take these types of articles seriously, particularly from New York Magazine?
NY magazine is such a joke. Anyone want to bet that within 6 months they’ll run another Pete Hamill story about how much Park Slope has changed from the days of his youth, when real “woiking people” lived there?
Ha ha! Yeah, Pete Hamill/NY Mag are good for at least one of those every 6-9 onths or so.
I agree that if the LES was #2, then this is just pure bullshit. There can’t be a worse neighborhood to actually live in.
I lived on both the LES and in the Slope (with pre-schoolers, I might add). You can’t beat the perks of living in the Slope with young kids, but the LES had a lot to offer, too, especially if your kid was accepted to NEST. K-12, taken care of, all in walking distance. Seward Park was on our doorstep, as was the subway. Walking distance to Soho and the East Village. And this was back in the day when the LES was just beginning to transform.
Triangle below Flatbush. Awesome!