Fort Greene One Of NYC's Best Neighborhoods For Summer Fun: Study

FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN — Fort Greene has landed itself as one of the city's top five neighborhoods for summertime fun, a new study shows.

A RentHop analysis of New York City neighborhoods' parks, outdoor eateries, Citi Bike stations landed Fort Greene in fourth place on a list of the top 10 "summertime fun" spots.

With a score of 84, Fort Greene was only passed by the West Village, which got a perfect 100, and two groupings that tied for second — SoHo, Tribeca and Little Italy in Manhattan and Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill — which all got a score of a 92.

The study looked at various factors that "make a summer day awesome, and not-so-awesome," including how much of the neighborhood is covered in parkland, how many trees line the streets and even how many 311 dog poop complaints were called in to the city.

For Fort Greene, RentHop found that the neighborhoods had nearly 31 Citi Bike stations, 23.68 sidewalk cafes and 3.38 rooftop bars per square mile.

The number of outdoor eating spots were, like most of the other Brooklyn neighborhoods on the list, not much compared to the Manhattan spots. The West Village had more than ten times the number of sidewalk cafes as Park Slope-Gowanus with 153 outdoor spots and Midtown-Midtown South took the title of the most rooftop bars with 39 per square mile.

But, what likely put Fort Greene in one of the top spots was its 13 percent of land that is covered by parks. The study also gave bonus points to neighborhoods that were near Brooklyn attractions, like the Navy Yard.

Here's the top 10 neighborhoods for summer fun, according to RentHop:

1. West Village, Manhattan | Score: 100
2. SoHo/Tribeca/Little Italy, Manhattan | Score: 91
3. Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill, Brooklyn | Score: 91
4. Fort Greene, Brooklyn | Score: 84
5. Gramercy, Manhattan | Score: 83
6. Chinatown, Manhattan | Score: 81
7. Morningside Heights, Manhattan | Score: 80
8. Williamsburg, Brooklyn | Score: 80
9. Upper East Side/Carnegie Hill, Manhattan | Score: 80
10. Park Slope/Gowanus, Brooklyn | Score: 79

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