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From ntakos in Astoria to tacos in Rockaway Beach, our critics’ favorite comestibles in selected neighborhoods.

Our New York neighborhood ratings map the 50 best places to live in NYC � from Park Slope to Soho to Chelsea. Considering rentals or sales in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Bronx? Check Nate Silver’s neighborhood rankings first.

To find out where different kinds of New Yorkers might want to live, we tinkered with the category weights and came up with some alternative top tens.

A five-borough, 5,000-person poll.

The Yotel chain�purveyors of tiny, chic hotel rooms inspired by Tokyo’s famous �Kapseru Hoteru� capsule lodgings�recently announced plans to open an outpost in Times Square.

Freddie Mercury, the insanely flamboyant front man of Queen, bought this place as his Manhattan pied-à-terre in the early eighties.

Privacy? How old-fashioned. These days, intrabuilding gossip can go global.

The besieged architect Robert Scarano designed thousands of apartments. What do you do if you bought one?

New York hasn’t had a big earthquake in 126 years, and history suggests that we’re likely to have one every century or two. That said, we’re in little danger of a Chile-level megaquake�but it’s also true that the city’s buildings are vulnerable during even a moderate temblor.

The past year’s price dip allowed these longtime renters to become owners.