{"id":2999,"date":"2016-02-03T15:09:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T20:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.renthop.com\/blog\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2016-02-03T15:10:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T20:10:21","slug":"is-your-borough-the-worst-at-shoveling-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/blog\/is-your-borough-the-worst-at-shoveling-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Borough the Worst at Shoveling Snow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.renthop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/unshoveled-sidewalks-300x182.png\" alt=\"unshoveled sidewalks\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/unshoveled-sidewalks-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/unshoveled-sidewalks-768x467.png 768w, https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/unshoveled-sidewalks-1024x623.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/unshoveled-sidewalks.png 1360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Winter is coming&#8230; Winter is here! This phrase couldn&#8217;t be more true especially after last month&#8217;s historic blizzard, Jonas. (Excuse our Game of Thrones reference.)<\/p>\n<p>While most people spent their time cuddled up at home with Netflix with the heat on full blast, our data scientist, Shane Leese compiled open 311 data to crank out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renthop.com\/study\/new-york-city-ny\/icy-sidewalks.html\">RentHop&#8217;s new data study<\/a> that shows which borough had the highest number of complaints for un-shoveled sidewalks.<\/p>\n<p>Intriguingly,\u00a0Brooklyn topped the list of boroughs with the most complaints for unshoveled sidewalks, with 16.13 complaints per square mile. Brooklyn soundly beat Manhattan (14.81 per square mile), Queens (8.51), the Bronx (6.39), and Staten Island (3.88). And apathetic shoveling in Brooklyn is nothing new \u2014 the borough has topped the list of complaints for snow-and-ice-clogged sidewalks for at least <i>three winters in a row<\/i>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Featured on:<\/p>\n<p>DNAInfo:\u00a0https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20160203\/prospect-heights\/this-neighborhood-got-most-snowy-sidewalk-complaints-after-blizzard<\/p>\n<p>Village Voice:\u00a0http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/news\/which-borough-is-the-worst-at-shoveling-snow-hint-its-the-one-where-the-most-people-live-8228753<\/p>\n<p>New York Post:\u00a0http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/02\/03\/the-worst-snow-shovelers-in-nyc\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter is coming&#8230; Winter is here! This phrase couldn&#8217;t be more true especially after last month&#8217;s historic blizzard, Jonas. (Excuse our Game of Thrones reference.) 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