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
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The fact that the LES is #2 makes this list lose all credibility.
‘zactly.
*rob*
Rob, I know it’s referred to as a muffin top when the belly hangs over the pants, but what is it referred to when shoulder and back fat hangs over a top?
Prediction: everyone from Park Slope will praise the magazine, rating system and results and everyone from Fort Greene will refer to NY Mag as a worthless piece of trash.
and chickie sitting on the stoop pasty back fat rolls are never attractive. sorry for that catty comment, but i just dont like having to look at that when the weather gets nice hahah
*rob*
“serves up one of its most link-baity and click-generating issues”
Right, and thus the reason for having it as a story here too. Nothing wrong with good marketing Mr.B.
The fact that the LES is #2 makes this list lose all credibility.
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“population of more artists and creatives than even its reputation for comfortable bohemianism might suggest”
bull.f’ing.shit.
while i actually really love living in park slope, that is the most wrong description of it EVER.
*rob*
so that settles it, right?
1. Park Slope
15th St. to Flatbush Ave., Prospect Park West to Fourth Ave.
Sunnyside? I need to look into how livable Queens is, b/c I’ve heard recommendations of Forest Hills and Jackson Hts. It’s very alien to me.
I agree with P.S. being at top (not sure #1). I live there and the criticism from haters is sooo over-the-top exaggerated, probably from people who never set foot there, like when people say BedStuy is nothing but gangs and drugs and crime.