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
nice weather yesterday and I took opportunity to walk thru parts of Park Slope, Fort Greene, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, CobbleHill and Brooklyn Hts. It is one vast great area , great buildings, bursting with people, street-life and culture. Hard to beat anywhere. I have lived in the area for past 35 years and keeps getting better and better.
I feel very fortunate that this is where I ended up after college.
I dated a tan Taurus once.
Sorry Biff – I am PS but the list is crap – I haven’t fully analyzed it yet but LES #2 and Red Hook ahead of Sunset Park, Riverdale (highest Bronx nabe = 38?) and Upper West Side…give me a f’ing break – the list doesn’t even seem to match their criteria – well based on any normal ratings.
Exactly Benson –
They’re also trying to quantify something that really can’t be.
No gunplay at press time.
***Bid half peak comps***
BTW: I live in Park Slope, so I guess I should be happy that they rated it #1. Nevertheless, I stand by my comments above. Anyone who takes these surveys seriously should have their heads examined.
Benson, do you drive a tan Taurus?
Antidope… I thought that was incontrovertible by now.
I would say, though, that the triangle north of Union Street could most definitely develop it’s own name. Tribefa? (Triangle below Flatbush Avenue?)
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? They’ll also run a story about how gentrifiers (read: their readers) are over-running the very neighborhoods that they recommend in this article.