Can where you live in NYC impact your health?

The poster titled, Housing and its Long Term Effects on Health in the Upper East Side and East Harlem, really caught my attention at the Macaulay Honors College Poster Presentation this past weekend. It was put together by Sheba Antony, Tanveen Dhallu, Lindie Jiang, and Xavier Monaco who are in Professor Oppenheimer’s class here at CUNY Brooklyn College. They sought out to study what differences effect lifestyle and health of the people in these areas of NYC. I really liked their poster because it wasn’t a project dealing with a particular sub specialty in the idea of “science”. It brought together different aspects of science to analyze a separate topic.

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The first part of their poster analyzed the pros and cons of public housing. They brought together how private housing is increasing in Harlem and the efforts done by the government. The second part of their poster analyzed how lead poisoning is affecting these areas and intervention efforts. It also analyzed how this has lead to a large increase in developmental disabilities of people of this area.

Their poster was well put together and cohesive. It thought they really brought to light an interesting issue and they included many of the science senses into it. Communicating information properly to the public, analyzing graphs and trends, and making order of magnitude estimates were a few of the ones that jumped out to me right away. Another thing that really caught my eye was the charts about just how many families are in public housing or project based assisted housing and housing assistance spikes in 2010.

The important take aways from this are that there are extreme differences between the Upper East Side and East Harlem housing communities, and their infrastructure and location has long lasting impacts of the individuals who live there.

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  1. I agree that this poster was really great and incorporated a lot of different aspects into the project. If you can remember, when discussing the increase in private housing, has their been positive or negative outcomes from this? I also find it interesting that their was a peak in housing assistance in 2010, did the poster or possibly the presenters explain why? Great job Shreya!

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