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
Lech, you just came back from a cross country drive and spent a ton of time with folks in the midwest. Of course these slumfers look good to you. Hell, most of us posting would look like world class triathletes compared to what you’ve been looking at over the past three weeks.
lechecal, are you for serious? all last week you were ragging on people in texas for being fat, and now youre getting angry that someone pointed out someones back boobies?!
*rob*
“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?
Oops, we came in @ #4 (not 3rd) – and only lumped in with Cobble, which got the entire writeup.
So…looking at the full weighting system:
Housing Cost: 25 percent
Transit: 13 percent
Shopping and Services: 9 percent
Safety: 8 percent
Restaurants: 8 percent
Schools: 6 percent
Diversity: 6 percent
Housing Quality: 5 percent
Green Space: 5 percent
Health and Environment: 5 percent
Nightlife: 4 percent
NFW LES comes in #2. Seriously. Love hanging there, but not really where I would want to live.
I’d love to see what you all look like slumfing around on a Saturday afternoon. Fit as fiddles I’m sure.
The one dude looks like he has been in college for 15 years and smokes a lot of weed and plays ultimate frisbee. Other than that I don’t see anyone who looks out of shape (so what if there is a little roll on the top of her shirt. Big f’ing deal. That happens to healthy people).
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great pic! fat and frumpy park slope. yup.
it’s the opposite of sophisticated and fashionable.
do not miss the human eyesores there at all.
“sophisticated and fashionable?” lol. you live in williamsburg. Earth’s moonface mecca!
*rob*
Anything considered best of in New York Magazine is usually for a particular tax bracket. Which is why I canceled my subscription to that magazine 11 years ago, right when I moved to Park Slope, when the nabe was somewhat affordable. But I see not much has changed with the mag as I can’t afford to live in Parks Slope anymore either.
I consider local blogs and websites as my source for best of.
By daveinbedstuy on April 12, 2010 11:13 AM
I read that Hamill was one of the 4 people who wrested the gun from Sirhan Sirhan.
Yep…pretty fascinating guy.
That’s a pretty impressive showing for Brooklyn in the Top 10. A lot of love for BoCoCa. [Ducks to avoid incoming shrapnel]