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
LES #2 – guess it’s time to move back
They should go out and round up a crew of illegals. i bet they could master those coffee and espresso machines in about 30 minutes.
Whenever I get attitude from a barrista or someone in retail in general, I call them out on it, and loudly.
“we were losers and knew we were losers”
And you grew up and became PLUSAs?
🙂
Amen on the ‘barista’ comment. I used to work at a coffeehouse during undergrad, its easy/brainless, we were losers and knew we were losers entitled to nothing, which is what motivated us to do well in college and get good jobs.
I could be wrong, but I think Starbucks was one of the first companies to use the “barista” term, back when they were only in Seattle.
LES has those great coop complexes: Seward Park, Amalgamated, East River and… Hiiliard? I think? While a lot of it isn’t very child-friendly, those are extremely child-friendly. They’re also cheaper than a lot of brownstone Brooklyn.
I live in and love Park Slope, but I agree that a) NY Mag is a joke (it’s a magazine for and about vile people living vilely — it’s not about any City that I live in or want to live in), and b) the weighting system is ludicrous. Why is housing cost a factor at all, let alone the modal one, if the issue is the “best” neighborhood? I could see it if you were looking at “most affordable” or “best bang for the buck” neighborhood, but “best” implies quality independent of price. If NY Mag were rating cars on this basis, it would put Hyundais ahead of Porsches. I love my brownstone and my neighbors, but I’d happily trade them even up for a brownstone on the UES or UWS. And is housing cost really three times more important than safety? I’d think safety would the most important issue. Would one really want to live in a neighborhood with cheap housing, great transportation and restaurants where there were burglaries and muggings galore?
The guy who designed this metric runs fivethirtyeight.com, and he’s no dummy. I’d be willing to speculate that this is a cynical attempt to purposefully create a stupid metric to incite flame wars and click traffic at the NY Mag site.
I can kinda relate though. What I do for a living isn’t all that hard but a lot of people who do it act like it’s super selective (totally not true) and super hard (totally not true). That’s part of why other people tend to look at people in my line of work like a bunch of clowns.
“it’s not brain surgery, just pour the damn coffee and lose the obligatory barista attitude.”
Apparently, it’s a lot harder than it looks. A quote from one of the Gorilla Coffee owners (speaking about the revolt):
“The training to be a barista is rigorous,” she continued, “and she’s like a drill sergeant. She trains somebody and they become good, and then they become great, and then they become excellent. I don’t understand the perceived hostility. Everybody has a different learning curve and she respects that.”
http://tinyurl.com/y2whcb4
I meant “Rob.” Typing very poorly today.