Nate Siler is a statistician who used to crunch baseball numbers and now runs fivethrityeight.com, probably the best statistical political analysis on the planet.
He’s a recent New Yorker and did a project for New York Magazine analyzing every neighborhood in the five boroughs of New York City.
This is one of those great articles that will mainly start a bunch of arguments among New Yorkers. For the record, my neighborhood is fourth and Brooklyn has 5 of the top 7 (Brooklyn’s Park Slope got the top slot, which will annoy everyone in Manhattan).
There is also a cool, livability calculator that lets you play with the various ratings to find your perfect (or at least optimal) neighborhood. If you crank the restaurant importance up, our neighborhood, Boerum Hill, can rise to the top.
Fun stuff. Let the arguments begin…
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