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Most of the Neighborhood Prefers the Yankees

A new study shows that residents favor the Yankees over the Mets.

The majority of your neighbors are Yankees fans — at least according to a new study by transit directions website HopStop.

The site 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.

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

Citi Field was less popular in every borough of New York according to the study, including in Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and Gowanus, which were all given the “Moderate Yankees Neighborhood" rating. Boerum Hill was ranked the 10th most Yankee-loving neighborhood in Brooklyn, Gowanus was ranked sixth and Carroll Gardens came in at number 15.

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The odd neighborhood out was Cobble Hill, which according to the study, moderately prefers the Mets. Cobble Hillians, explain yourselves!

North Riverdale in the Bronx had the most Yankees fans in the city, and Pomonk in Queens had the most Mets fans.  

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

What do you think? Does this data seem accurate?


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