I'm inclined to agree that there's something wrong with this map or its interpretation. My neighborhood is yellow and if there's a single bohemian living here, I have yet to see him or her.

Good one dhex!

ok the cat map post was pretty damn funny

Why would you want to be a bohemian anyway? It is NOT fun..you cannot pay your bills..you live day to day praying that the next job will last long enough so you can have some money in your pocket..your lucky if you get to eat..every piece of clothing has paint/charcoal on it..you hope your phone isn't turned off..it isn't fun to be a gypsy.

i don't see the czech republic anywhere on this map.

liars!

the redder the neighborhood = the more academic degrees + the _less_ income. surely a terrible way to define "bohemian," but still an interesting measure. wonder what it would look like on a state-by-state US map? the barista poets and waiter-actors make much more in NY than elsewhere.

PPS: Yuppie=Young Urban Professional

ie: 20-something, well-educated people working in higher-than-average paid professions

The word "Bohemian" doesn't match her personal definition. Bohemians are artists who do not live normal lifestyles. Her definition is not even close.

Of course, we're all free to make our own definitions for words. For example, let's make the word "cat" mean "dog." I'll make a map called "CAT MAP" and put locations of dogs (now called "CATS") on there. People will be understandably confused.

(PS: I'm Puerto Rican and never went to college, but yes, I do make art sometimes.)

If you read the artist's statement, you'll see she defines a bohemain as an older, financially stable hipster. Does that mean that older hipsters are yuppies? Well, yes. Shot in the dark: everybody who's posted here (including me!) is actually a yuppie.

I have to agree with Bohemian CRAPsody. The red places on the map are hotbeds for yuppie-dom. It's quite awful.

Youth + College Degree + Household Income does NOT dictate how artistic a community is (assuming you're using the word Bohemian correctly). This is a *yuppiness map,* not a Bohemia map.

If you used this formula for Berlin, for instance, the map would probably be all blue. That city has an overflow of non-college educated, low-paid artists, and many people say Berlin is giving New York some real competition for "Bohemianess."

Gerritsen Beach & Mill Basin...bohemian?! Maybe by 2025.

You need a real job.

Doesn't the Morningside Heights hot zone just point to the somewhat obvious fact that there are many thousands of grad students at Columbia, and that there's not much else up in Morningside Heights except for Columbia?

Didn't the Morning News publish those maps, oh, on February 9th 2004?

A little late to the table today Dobkin?