According to Brian Merchant in “The Happiest and Saddest Places in NYC, According to Twitter,” researchers at the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) have used Twitter to determine that the happiest place in NYC is Times Square and the saddest is Maspeth Creek, Brooklyn.

details:

–about the study

-when it took place, and for how long

-used 600,000 tweets for their study

-how tweets were used to determine happiness/sadness

–why researchers think these were the results

–parks=happy, transit hubs=sad