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Map: Where NYC Singles Are Concentrated, Sorted By Gender
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John Del Signore
Published Feb 11, 2013
Modified Feb 11, 2013
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John Del Signore
Published Feb 11, 2013
Modified Feb 11, 2013
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Women outnumber men in NYC 1.07 to 1, making the dating scene in this town a horrid crocodile swamp of depraved treachery and self-loathing, at least from a single lady's point of view. Or maybe the problem is just that men are pigs—census data also shows that single never-married men between the ages of 20-34 actually outnumber single women by 742,400 to 729,500. Whatever the odds, there is STILL TIME to meet someone specialadequateavailableout on parole in time for Valentine's Day, and this handy map is here to help mingling singles of both genders find someone unattached with a pulse.
Real estate website Trulia looked at the ratio of men living alone to women living alone across NYC, subtracting estimates of the gay and lesbian population in order to come up with this map that focuses on "men and women interested in dating someone of the opposite sex." (For homosexual singles, Trulia points to their "Welcome to the Gayborhood" post.) So if you're a single bro looking to share your emotional unavailability with the woo-girl of your dreams, try stealing a dog and walking it around on the Upper West or Upper East Sides. And if you're an uptown single lady tired of drinking boxed wine alone in the studio apartment your parents bought for you, take a cab down to Lower Manhattan or—if you're adventurous—become a regular at Dutch Kills in Long Island City, the neighborhood with the highest ratio of single men to women. (Except during Warm Up.)
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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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