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
i’m okay with tip jars at coffee places.
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And tip-jars at coffee places are insulting. You do pretty much what the guy at McDonalds is doing.
wait. those are TIP jars!!? i thought they were for when youre short on change and you dont realize it til you already ordered you coffee or something.
*rob*
Actually I am afraid most of you are wrong – in order to PROPERLY make good coffee (and by coffee I mean espresso) a certain skill is involved and in fact DIBS most Italian restaurants in NYC even some “good” ones, have no clue how to make a proper cup (there was an article about that a few years ago).
That being said a little skill sure, but it is still monkey work once you get the hang of it – and since 99% of the competition is horrible; frankly a super-automatic will get you to the top of the pack – so those disgruntle morons at Gorilla should go back to work – but please dont say making espresso properly is totally unskilled – since it is still tough to get a good cup in this city.
And tip-jars at coffee places are insulting. You do pretty much what the guy at McDonalds is doing.
On the barista thing…it’s totally ridiculous. EVERY good Italian restaurant has a big coffee / espresso machine as complicated as at a coffee house and they don’t neeed special baristas to operate it.
At the ones I see in Philly at Osteria and Amis, arguable two of the best Italian restaurants in the US (along with their sister Vetri), they have highly complex espresso machines (one of them cost $85,000) and you know who works them???? The busboys, not even the waiters.
Rob, go apply for a side job at gorilla if & when they re-open
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“The training to be a barista is rigorous,” she continued, “and she’s like a drill sergeant.
omg WAAAAAAAh it’s so hard to make coffee waaaaah. some people really shouldnt be allowed to open their mouths.
*rob*
DIBS, funny you don’t end with “I need to speak with the manager about this attitude” but rather “I need to see the kitchen / stock room staff”
“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!