Awesome New York, NY, USA

This is a list of awesome people and things in New York, NY, USA. It is inspired by awesome. Currently, it includes the best programmers and projects. Watch this repo to get notified about changes, especially ranking changes.

Top 15 programmers in New York, NY, USA

These are the 15 most influential programmers in New York, NY, USA. The score (in parentheses) is computed by combining projects, followers, and other information.

1. John Resig @jeresig (79)
2. Jeremy Ashkenas @jashkenas (73)
3. Tim Pope @tpope (67)
4. Roman Nurik @romannurik (54)
5. David DeSandro @desandro (53)
6. Rich Hickey @richhickey (48)
7. Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik (48)
8. David Nolen @swannodette (46)
9. Gina Trapani @ginatrapani (45)
10. Jeremy Feinstein @jfeinstein10 (42)
11. Nicole Sullivan @stubbornella (42)
12. Rick Waldron @rwaldron (40)
13. Daniel Shiffman @shiffman (40)
14. Juriy Zaytsev @kangax (40)
15. Domenic Denicola @domenic (40)

You can find comprehensive statistics at the page for New York, NY, USA at programmermap.com.

5 most popular projects

These are the five most popular projects (by stars) from local developers:

1. backbone (22352)
2. underscore (15104)
3. coffeescript (11510)
4. idiomatic.js (9327)
5. masonry (8280)

The link is taken from the repository description. If no link is provided there, the repository url is given.