Pandora Maps Brooklyn’s Musical Taste: Hair Bands in Greenpoint, Jewish Comedy in Borough Park
As far as informal audio cartography goes, you could do worse than looking to the collective Pandora stations of a neighborhood to get a feel for what everyone is listening to. The site controls 78% of internet radio streaming, so it gives a fiarly good, if not quite perfect, impression of what people are tuning in for. The results, which the streaming service released this week, rank the most popular genres in several New York City neighborhoods. In Brooklyn, predictably, the results vary widely by neighborhood.
In Greenpoint, you can expect to listen to hair metal, and in Borough Park, Jewish Comedy is popular, but so is progressive house music. Below, a breakdown of the data by neighborhood:
Borough Park
Jewish Comedy
Norteno 2014
Progressive House
Bushwick and Williamsburg
Mariachi
Quinceanera
Corridos
Canarsie and Flatlands
Gospel
Contemporary Gospel
Reggae Rock
Central Brooklyn
Gospel
i-Pop
Afrobeat
East New York and New Lots
Dub
Reggae Rock
i-Pop
Flatbush
Afrobeat
i-Pop
Dub
Greenpoint
Hair Bands
Hipster BBQ
Hipster Cocktail Party