The New York hotspot for indie music is Manhattan, not Brooklyn, according to data from the music-streaming service Spotify.
That's the counterintuitive conclusion DNAinfo drew from a map linking to playlists of roughly 100 songs distinctively popular in nearly 1,000 different cities across the world that was posted on the Spotify website.
According to those playlists, users in Jamaica, Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn listen mostly to hip hop and all kinds of Latin music, from merengue to Soca.
Reggae is particularly popular in Jamaica, the home of the indie reggae label VP Records.
Brooklyn's hipster contingent listens to a lot of Jamie xx, the indie electronic music artist whose album "In Colour" dropped last month. Brooklyn-born rapper, and current Rikers inmate, Bobby Shmurda's tracks appear on both Queens' and Brooklyn's playlists.
The Bronx must be home to lots of broken hearts because bachata — the lyrics of which often describe tormented love — is especially beloved in the borough.
In Manhattan, users listen to a number of indie darlings: St. Vincent, Balmorhea, Ryn Weaver, VÉRITE, Florence + the Machine, Cayucas and Neon Indian. (Is this a case of non-hipsters trying too hard to prove they read Pitchfork?)
And they've got some soul; a couple of Leon Bridges songs appear on the New York, New York list.
The mapmakers at Spotify didn't even acknowledge Staten Island and its musical preferences. What nerve.
