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 have to agree with Ron on that. Where did this “barista” term come from anyway? YOU MAKE COFFEE! I can teach a GORILLA to make coffee (as he comes full circle).
Gotta agree with *rob* on the barista attitude thing.
yeah what was that whole gorilla coffee thing about anyway? did everyone really quit? honestly tho, people who just serve coffee for a living have a seriously overinflated ego to begin with. it’s not brain surgery, just pour the damn coffee and lose the obligatory barista attitude.
*rob*
Yesterday morning I ate a continental breakfast at a motel somewhere along I-70 in rural Illinois. The other people eating breakfast were fat. Not “haha I snapped your picture while you weren’t looking and there was a roll of skin that New Yorkers can bag on” fat. I mean incapable of walking up and down stairs. I’m talking about people who HAVE TO buy SUVs and big pickups because they can’t get in and out of normal cars.
My favorite guy at breakfast yesterday came in wearing budweiser pajama bottoms and a shirt that said something about deer hunting on the back. He had a moustache.
BoCoCa and park slope are such wonderful nabes.
LOL, in the photo that accompanies the linked article? A lovely street shot down 5th Avenue featuring leafy trees, brick rowhouses, parked bikes, a moped, pedestrians sitting outside a store in the sun and, front and center…GORILLA COFFEE!
Brilliant week to tick off your entire staff and have them quit en masse, Gorilla owners. Simply awesome.
lech admitted last week that he’s a contrarian so he’s just being consistent (wtf?)
“The one dude looks like he has been in college for 15 years and smokes a lot of weed and plays ultimate frisbee”
“What’s wrong with that?”
Oh that was just species identification, not a passing of judgment.
..DH, you’re in the fashion industry, so I know for a fact you spend a lot of time around barfychicks.
*Rob*, if you think those are back boobies you must spend all day with chicks who barf to stay skinny. These are back boobies:
http://tinyurl.com/y6bhojy
And last week I was bagging on fat people. These are a bunch of normals who didn’t have a chance to pose for the picture.