I wish I could live on the Upper West Side of NYC but circumstances (finance$) prevent me from doing so. Where should your inner New Yorker live? This test will give you a rough idea, although I doubt it includes my favorite neighborhood in the list (but you all can help me figure out the various answers to the test by reporting your results). You can see my results below the fold.
| You Belong in the East Village |
 A little bit arty, a little bit punk - you seem to set trends that many people follow. It's likely that you're an academic of sorts, even if it's just on the weekends. |
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"Down to earth and hard working, you're a true New Yorker.
And although you may be turning into a yuppie, you never forget your roots."
I'm not sure where they got that from, but okay! (am a little offended by the yuppie part but oh well...)
I got Brooklyn too.
The first question was really annoying as I like to do at least three of the options everytime I go to New York: Hit Central Park, visit Galleries and Museums, and spend time at used bookstores and going to interesting lectures.
Ah! One can leave blanks in these tests. But even after trying to cheat a few times I'm always sent to East Village. It seems "academic" is just another term for nerd. I'm doomed.
I, too, got Brooklyn. Speaking as a Queens resident, I find this vaguely insulting. Plus, I gotta add that the Brooklyn that I and most of my friends who live there have experienced is far beyond "turning" yuppie. It is effervescently yuppie.
I got SoHo for some inexplicable reason (on personality tests, my artistic interest score never exceeds 10 out of 100). I live in Morningside Heights; I'm not sure which neighborhood I'd live in if I had a choice, simply because Morningside is pretty good as it is, except that going anywhere seems to be uphill both ways.
Well, based on the other comments, this blogthing is not worth even a visit. And whoever composed it is an idiot.
I live in Brooklyn. "Brooklyn" is not a "neighborhood." It's a borough, a county, with over 1M people in it. There are many neighborhoods in Brooklyn, and Queens, Bronx and Staten Island (the "outer" boroughs), each with its own character, history, yadayadayada. Each as distinctive as any Mahattan neighborhood.
Yes, there are still Manhattanites who are afraid to cross bridges or enter tunnels, and see the rest of the city as some amorphous terra incognita. Like witches of yore, they may not cross water. We shall not discuss them further.