Fewer Women Love the East Village

Do women not love the East Village? That's what it looks like, according to Andrew Hill, a cartographer for CartoDB, according to DNAInfo!

Mr. Hill assembled a map using information from the American Community Survey (DNAInfo said it was the 2014 Census, but the census is every ten years — the last one was in 2010)!

Anyway, take a look at this map:

Map of the East Village.

Each dot represents 10,000 women. A white dot means less than 49% of the population is female; a dark pink dot means more than 52% is female. The other dots would be 50% and 51%, respectively, according to the number line!

A very interesting thing can be seen when looking at the area East of the East Village:

East of the East Village.

More women would rather live in the East River than in the East Village!

What does this mean, for the East Village Today?!

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It's All Over For Another Year

Riding my Citibike up the East River Monday? Tuesday? I passed by the tent where East Village bar Zum Schneider had their Oktoberfest celebration this year. It was up for about ten days, but now it's coming down:

Taking down the Oktoberfest tent.

A great time was had by all, as you can see from my pictures here.

East Villagers love to celebrate their ethnic heritage(s)!

Oktoberfest Has Started!

Do you want to know what's great about Citibikes? It doesn't matter where you are (inside the area serviced), if you need a bike to go somewhere, there's one close by!

Today I passed by Zum Schneider and remembered their tent up on the East River. If I had to go back home to get my bike, I would not have gone up. As it was, I was a block away from a station. I simply got on a bike and rode up!

People were already lining up to get inside:

People lining up to get inside.

The tent was large enough to hold hundreds of revellers!

Inside the tent.

Inside the tent, closeup.

There was room outside, too!

"Anything you can drink, I can drink bigger"!

What Oktoberfest would be complete without an oom-pah-pah band?!

An oom-pah-pah band playing for the crowd.

A great time was being had by all! It really made me wish I drank beer! Next week I'm going to go up and have a pretzel and a bratwurst!

Oktoberfest on the East River

This isn't technically the East Village, but since I mentioned Zum Schneider recently, I think it fits.

Guess who's having an Oktoberfest celebration in a tent on the East River?

Zum Schneider!

Can you believe it?! How great is that?!

I saw this as I rode my Citibike up the river to work on Friday:

Zum Schneider Wiesn tent on the East River.

It's just past the end of Avenue C, on the other side of the FDR (naturally!)

Do you know what "Wiesn" means? It means "Oktoberfest"! Who knew?!

And this just gets better. Take a look at what else will be there!

Zum Schneider Weisen Karussel.

A carousel. Karussel, in German.

A fun time is sure to be had by all!

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If you're like me, you're probably wondering what's on the other side of the tent. Well, this is:

Behind the Zum Schneider Weisn tent.

So revellers will be able to see the river, but won't be able to fall in! And that's good, because people at Oktoberfest parties have been known to get a bit tipsy!