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]
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o and btw…park slope is a total douche neighborhood. cool people DO live there, but they are older cool people. anyone in their 20s in park slope is a DOUCHE.
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anyone who lives between whitehall and 100th in manhattan is a total toolshed.
TOOLSHED.
i was walking around the LES about a month ago…breaking my no-manhattan-on-the-weekend rule.
ugh. so many frat morons, jersey chicks w/ fedoras…wanted to vomit.
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Bkrules, breathe. I was being dramatic to make a point. Service workers like anyone else are humans, and should act like it. Too many of the coffee shop workers forget they’re coffee shop workers, and act as though you’re bothering them and they’re wasting their time with you because obviously they’re cooler/hipper and should be on a stage wowing audiences.
“I used to work at a coffeehouse during undergrad, its easy/brainless, we were losers and knew we were losers entitled to nothing”
Glad to see such respect for work.
I don’t know what your problem is that you put people down because you don’t think their job is hard enough or special enough or whatever.
I don’t know the first thing about making coffee, and I don’t know the first thing about what happened at Gorilla Coffee except, apparently, everybody quit and walked out.
What I do know that people who work are entitled to fairness and pay, and that all people, whether they work or not, are entitled to be treated with basic courtesy and decency. If you’re a customer and you treat people behind the counter with disrespect because you don’t think their job is special enough, it’s not actually about them being losers. It’s about YOU sucking.
sigh, if only i made more money so i could live in murray hill.
“1. West Village
2. Tribeca
3. Soho
4. Nolita
5. Central Greenwich Village
6.East Village
7. Midtown East
8. Murray Hill
9. Chelsea
10. Midtown West”
I agree with the top 5. #6 should be UWS, #7 should bePark Slope. After that, whatever.
For all those complaining about cost of housing being overly weighted, Silver/NY Mag does take that into account. A list of best ‘hoods if cost is no object has no Brooklyn neighborhoods at all:
The Cost-Is- No-Issue List
1. West Village
2. Tribeca
3. Soho
4. Nolita
5. Central Greenwich Village
6.East Village
7. Midtown East
8. Murray Hill
9. Chelsea
10. Midtown West
they also include a livability calculator in which you can weight various factors yourself. It’s actually pretty cool:
http://nymag.com/realestate/neighborhoods/2010/65355/
2002!!!!! That was before the start of the Mutant Asset Bubble.
Someday Baristas Will Lose the Attitude.
“”Whenever I get attitude from a barrista or someone in retail in general, I call them out on it, and loudly.”
Not to mention show tune singers at gay bars!”
LMAO. This means YOU Thursday night show-up-35-minutes-late-non-show-tune-singing-bad-piano-player at the Duplex!!