Baseball Study Has Amazin' Results

Douglaston and Little Neck residents are listed among the city's top five most loyal Yankees fans in a new study by transit directions website HopStop.

But the site's data did not place residents from the northeast Queens neighborhoods among the most dedicated to the Mets. 

HopStop dug into its data and analyzed the locations of all searches for directions to both Citi Field and Yankee Stadium since the start of the season - and found that things are looking pretty dismal for the Mets.

“We were surprised by how few Mets neighborhoods there were outside of Queens and Brooklyn, and how extreme the disparity was,” said Alexandra Dao, the community manager for HopStop.

According to the study's results, Citi Field was out-searched on HopStop by Yankee Stadium by more than a 2-to-1 margin.

Douglaston and Little Neck were ranked number five in the city for searches to Yankee Stadium. Bellerose and Floral Park were also considered "strong Yankees neighborhoods."

The Queens neighborhoods most loyal to the Mets included Cambria Heights and Far Rockaway.

The results were calculated using a formula that divided the number of Yankees direction searches in a neighborhood by the number of home games so far this season, and then divided that number by the number of Mets searches divided by the number of home Mets games.

“The Yankees versus Mets is an ongoing debate in New York,” said Dao. “So, we thought it would be fun to look into our data and figure out where each borough and neighborhood's alliances lie.”