KPMG released a report today saying that Lala Land is the biggest market for ‘new urban development’ (read: destruction of character of neighborhoods to make way for white-washed, glossy (sub)urbia.) But! Here’s what they said about the LES:
Ride the subway of love: At the 2000 census there were 106,000 never-married men and 104,000 never-married women living on Manhattan Island. However in one Lower East Side neighbourhood there were 2.41 never-married young men per never-married young woman. Tell the girls from Sex and the City that this is Manhattan’s bachelor hotspot. The bachelorette hotspot was a precinct in the Upper East Side where there were 2.45 bachelorettes per bachelor. The bachelorette hotspot is linked to the bachelor hotspot by the Bronx/Brooklyn Subway lines 4, 5 and 6. When you next visit New York perhaps you might like to ride this “subway of love.”
Errrrrr, yeah. Does this explain the radical differences in the two neighborhoods? At all? Maybe a little?