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NYC's 40 Most Eligible Singles, According To Painfully New Yorky Dating App 'Hinge'
The singles are ranked by profile likes, educational prestige and career success.
NEW YORK, NY — Of the litany of dating apps trying to profit off the craterous demand for human connection carved out by the Single And Chronically Unsatisfied Millennial Of The Two-Thousand-Tens, Hinge, a career- and status-centric "relationship app" for "the community of people who want more," has to be the New Yorkiest. (And where, after all, can you find a higher concentration of single and chronically unsatisfied millennials than in New York City, fertile land of commitment phobia and backup-option overstock?)
Hinge wasn't always so New Yorky. The app's strategy when it first launched in 2013 was to match daters with friends of friends, using data pulled from their Facebook profiles.
That didn't work, business-wise. "We were just going to lose out essentially to Tinder over time as it swallowed us because we weren't different enough and our product wasn't living up to our vision," Hinge's CEO told NPR.
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So, in 2016, the app upped its Manhattan factor. In their Hinge profiles, users now list where they live, where they work and where they went to school, and answer cutesy questions about their hopes and dreams and favorite local hangouts.
Hinge's latest effort to build a larger customer base is equally New Yorky: The company released a definitive list Tuesday of the 40 most eligible singles currently using its platform.
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Singles were ranked based on 1) number of profile "likes," 2) success within their respective industries and 3) the prestige of their college education.
The resulting Top 40 list reads like a Forbes ranking crossed with a casting portfolio for ABC's "The Bachelor": A bunch of well-groomed 20-and 30-somethings, smiling out from a series of suspiciously professional-looking portraits, emblazoned with personality-defining sound bytes and sorted by career/alma mater/location.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Hinge's highly eligible humans are most densely clustered in Williamsburg and the East Village (five each). Kips Bay, the West Village and Chelsea tie for a close second (three each).
Below is Hinge's full ranking, in all its New Yorkiness, with the most eligible single at spot No. 1. Likin' what you're seein'? Download the app here.
No. 40: Tyler McCaine
Work: Analyst at HFF
Education: Colgate University
Hometown: Westchester, NY
Neighborhood: Flatiron District
No. 39: Nicole Diamond
Work: Manager, Global Special Events at Ralph Lauren
Education: University of Miami
Hometown: Brookville, NY
Neighborhood: Chelsea
No. 38: Josh Shapiro
Work: JPMorgan Chase
Education: Colgate University
Hometown: New York, NY
Neighborhood: Lincoln Square
No. 37: Guerin Schwarberg
Work: Invest Forward
Education: Vanderbilt University
Hometown: Mission Hills, Kansas
Neighborhood: Lower East Side
No. 36: Kirsten Robinson
Work: Senior Copywriter, Editor at Surf Yoga Beer
Education: James Madison University
Hometown: Fairfield, CT
Neighborhood: West Village
No. 35: Roy Chung
Work: NEXT Model & Founder at ZenProspect
Education: Wesleyan University/UC Berkeley
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Neighborhood: Williamsburg
No. 34: Monique Stafford
Work: Child Care Professional and Entrepreneur
Education: Dickinson College and Bucknell University
Hometown: Washington, DC
Neighborhood: Upper West Side
No. 33: Joe Woodard
Work: Product Manager at Jet.com
Education: University of Pennsylvania
Hometown: Torrance, CA
Neighborhood: Kips Bay
No. 32: Lauren Weiner
Work: Tutor and/or Curriculum Writer
Education: MS, Columbia University; BA, University of Miami
Hometown: Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Neighborhood: Kips Bay
No. 31: Steven Chasin
Work: Morgan Stanley
Education: New York University
Hometown: Larchmont, NY
Neighborhood: Financial District
No. 30: Carly Ettinger
Work: Content-Trend Analyst at StyleHaul
Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
Neighborhood: Gramercy
No. 29: Brant Talesnick
Work: Attorney at Emmet, Marvin, and Martin LLP
Education: The George Washington University
Hometown: New York, NY
Neighborhood: Gramercy
No. 28: Andi Cross
Work: Global Business Development - Huge, Inc
Education: The George Washington University
Hometown: Broomall, PA
Neighborhood: Financial District
No. 27: Peter Roessler
Work: Vice President, Investments at David Lerner Associates, Inc. and songwriter/producer for Late Nite Cable (band)
Education: University of Rochester; IAE Business School; Berklee College of Music
Hometown: Fairfield, CT
Neighborhood: Greenpoint
No. 26: Kelly Shea
Work: Russell Tobin & Associates
Education: Siena College
Hometown: Oceanside, NY
Neighborhood: Hell's Kitchen
No. 25: Alexandre Perrein
Work: Financial Analyst
Education: Northeastern University
Hometown: Greenwich, CT
Neighborhood: West Village
No. 24: Ayana Dawkins
Work: Data Analyst at IBM
Education: Columbia University
Hometown: Princeton Junction, NJ
Neighborhood: Lower East Side
No. 23: Jordan Barker
Work: Founder & Principal at Bark Equities
Education: Syracuse University
Hometown: Armonk, NY
Neighborhood: Upper East Side
No. 22: Lizzy Sieverding
Work: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Education: University of Rochester School of Nursing
Hometown: Chappaqua, NY
Neighborhood: Alphabet City
No. 21: Dan Fleishaker
Work: Protagonist Creative Agency
Education: Cornell University
Hometown: New York, NY
Neighborhood: Williamsburg
No. 20: Amanda Stoneall
Work: Social Media Strategist at WWE
Education: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Hometown: Lake Geneva, WI
Neighborhood: Williamsburg
No. 19: Ian Weinberger
Work: Associate Music Director of Hamilton The Musical
Education: Northwestern University
Hometown: Evanston, IL
Neighborhood: Hell's Kitchen
No. 18: Jessica Rossman
Work: Director of Communications and Marketing at F-Factor
Education: University of Wisconsin Madison
Hometown: Sharon, MA
Neighborhood: Flatiron District
No. 17: Matt Sutton
Work: Vertical Marketing Manager at Facebook
Education: University of Virginia
Hometown: Waterford, VA
Neighborhood: Bowery
No. 16: Asa Jordan
Work: Marketing at ESI Design
Education: Duke University
Hometown: Ossining, NY
Neighborhood: Midtown East
No. 15: Ben Lebowitz
Work: Head of Social Media, Figliulo & Partners
Education: Fordham University
Hometown: Miller Place, NY
Neighborhood: West Village
No. 14: Caroline Hansen
Work: Travel Specialist at Indagare Travel
Education: University of Delaware
Hometown: Westfield, NJ
Neighborhood: Chelsea
No. 13: Jon Freeman
Work: Psychology & Neural Science Professor and Lab Director at NYU
Education: PhD, Tufts University. BA, New York University
Hometown: Weymouth, MA
Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
No. 12: Naomi Shah
Work: Jeweler
Education: Michigan State University
Hometown: Farmington Hills, MI
Neighborhood: Chelsea
No. 11: Trent Spangler
Work: JPMorgan Chase
Education: The Ohio State University
Hometown: Columbus, Ohio
Neighborhood: Upper East Side
No. 10: Andy Allen
Work: Model Management Group
Education: University of Pittsburgh
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
Neighborhood: East Village
No. 9: Kalpana Nagampalli
Work: Feldman Law Group, Intellectual Property Litigation Rated by Superlawyers
Education: University of Pennsylvania Law School
Hometown: Jamshedpur, India
Neighborhood: Kips Bay
No. 8: Dave Altarescu
Work: Verizon Digital Entertainment, Head of Product Marketing
Education: Berklee College of Music
Hometown: Chappaqua, NY
Neighborhood: Williamsburg
No. 7: Kelci Nienhuis
Work: Social Media Marketing
Education: DePaul University
Hometown: Holland, MI
Neighborhood: Park Slope
No. 6: Adam Olson
Work: Global Training Program Manager at Google
Education: The University of Arizona
Hometown: Villa Park, CA
Neighborhood: Alphabet City
No. 5: Katie Suskin
Work: Senior Product Designer at Big Human
Education: University of Washington
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Neighborhood: Bedford-Stuyvesant
No. 4: Daren Miller
Work: Google
Education: Duke University
Hometown: Saint Petersburg, FL
Neighborhood: Williamsburg
No. 3: Megan Markham
Work: Mount Sinai Children's Environmental Health Center
Education: The University of Texas at Austin
Hometown: Austin, TX
Neighborhood: East Village
No. 2: Chris Cafero
Work: Actor, Writer, Comedian -- Select Credits: The Night Of (HBO), Billions (ShowTime), As The World Turns (CBS)
Education: The George Washington University
Hometown: Norwalk, CT
Neighborhood: Astoria
No. 1: Mia Donahue
Work: LinkedIn
Education: Bucknell University
Hometown: Shamong, NJ
Neighborhood: East Village
All images courtesy of Hinge
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