Chelsea, Park Slope among NYC’s friendliest LGBTQ neighborhoods

No other neighborhood in New York City (and perhaps, the country) holds as much historical and cultural significance for its role in the gay liberation movement as Greenwich Village. It is the home of the Stonewall Inn and has one of the nation’s largest concentrations of LGBT historic sites, monuments, organizations, and bars. But other NYC neighborhoods are gaining momentum as some of the city’s friendliest LGBTQ neighborhoods. Artificial intelligence website Localize.city, which provides buyers and renters with important details about NYC, has rounded up their list of the city’s most friendly LGBTQ neighborhoods.

Localize.city used data sets, including census data and the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce’s public list of LGBT-owned businesses, to develop an algorithm that identified the amount of LGBTQ bars, venues, social services, community organizations, and various groups within neighborhoods. Localize.city acknowledges that the data only reflects a tiny portion of the queer population since it primarily includes male or female-identifying people in unmarried, same-sex relationships.

In Manhattan, Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen were found to have the greatest concentration of LGBTQ services and resources, as well as the largest clusters of LGBT-owned businesses in the city. The report also notes that census data shows that Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen have the highest rates of same-sex couples in the city.

In Brooklyn, neighborhoods like Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, East Williamsburg, Bushwick, and Bed-Stuy were found to be the among the most LGBT-friendly neighborhoods in the borough. Park Slope has some of the city’s most same-sex couples, particularly female same-sex households, while Windsor Terrace (a cheaper alternative to Park Slope) has the third-highest concentration of female same-sex households in the city.

Source: Curbed New York

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