The New York City neighborhoods that have the worst health and poverty, also tend to have more injuries from traffic. These are some of the finding from a new online tool put together by urban planners at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the advocacy group Transportation Alternatives.
Using census data and publicly available information from the city, the two groups say there's a link between disparities in city services with health and race. For example, in the city council districts with the highest rates of asthma--91% of residents are people of color. And those districts tend to be hotter in the summer, due to lack of green space. They also have slower bus speeds. And, compared to the city average, have fewer bike parking spaces.
The groups hope their findings will spur the city council to prioritize marginalized communities by reducing traffic and building more green spaces.
You can see how your area stacks up at spatialequity.nyc