Which NYC Neighborhood Do You Live In?

Is it NYC? allows you to discover which New York neighborhood most resembles your hometown. Simply enter your location into Is It NYC? and instantly discover if you're living in a trendy, SoHo-like area or a leafy, outer-borough haven like Forest Hills.

Cosine Similarity

At its core, Is It NYC? is an exercise in geospatial data analysis and similarity matching. Behind the curtain, the map leverages Foursquare data to find a neighborhood's 'venue' profile. For any given neighborhood, the tool meticulously counts and categorizes every venue. Think coffee shops, art galleries, laundromats, bodegas, parks, bars, and everything in between. This creates a unique "fingerprint" for your neighborhood. Once this detailed profile is built, it's just a matter of finding the New York neighborhood with the most similar feature set.

AI Summaries

While the raw, quantitative matching is handled by the Foursquare data, Claude 3.5 Sonnet generates the rich textual summaries, truly bringing each comparison to life. For example, my neighborhood in London is described as:

"East Williamsburg meets Bushwick, with a dash of Jackson Heights. It's a diverse, working-class area undergoing rapid transformation, blending industrial heritage with new developments and a vibrant multicultural community."

Find Every DUMBO in the world?

If you live in New York, Is It NYC? also allows you to find all the areas around the world that are most similar to your neighborhood. You can discover neighborhoods globally that share a similar Foursquare "fingerprint" profile simply by appending the neighborhood name to the Is It NYC? URL. For example, visiting https://isit.nyc/like/DUMBO will show you a map of neighborhoods across the globe that possess a venue profile similar to Brooklyn's DUMBO.