Secondary Data Sources:
- Social Explorer: demographic data/maps from U.S. censuses dating back to 1790. Sign up for free using a CUNY email address.
- Investigate NYC: culls online research tools from a variety of city and state agencies, the U.S. Census Bureau, and a few other places. From here, you can look up all kinds of things about your own neighborhood, including air quality, communicable disease & STD rates, the locations of nearby superfunds, brownfields, and hazardous waste sites, former and current crime rates, the kinds of 311 calls being made in your neighborhood, demographics, demographic change, median income, poverty rates, death trends, drinking habits, ongoing & upcoming capital projects, who your elected officials are & what they do, what districts you live in, and more. You can also look up information about your own building, like when it was built and who owns it (and if an LLC owns it, who’s in charge of that LLC), its rat inspection history, who lived in it in 1940, and more.
- The Opportunity Project: A brand new federal website that “brings together data from across the federal government as a tool meant to help community leaders improve services, and to assist residents in getting the most from their communities.”
- ZOLA: A database with NYC Zoning and Land Use info
- NYC Open Data– another source of lots of city data
- Living Lots: A database from 596 Acres of public vacant land in NYC
- Discover NYC Landmarks: a brand new interactive map/database of the city’s individual, scenic, and indoor landmarks, as well as historical districts
Secondary Data and Analysis:
- A 2015 report on Child Well-being in NYC’s 59 Community Districts, from the Citizens’ Committee for Children: this report has lots of recent data that could be of use to all the groups.
- The Welikia Project: Maps of what each block of the city was like (flora, fauna, etc.) in 1609!
- Recent data and analysis on the city’s worst landlords put together by Public Advocate, Tish James.
- Data on Lead paint violations in NYC by zipcode
- 2015 data on threatened affordability by community district
- 2014 data on rent burden in re. to the fight over rent stabilization
- 2013 data visualization of highest and lowest rent prices in NYC
- lots of good stuff on Radical Cartography.net- browse by problem, geography, or genre!
- The Gap: documents a shortage of 7.2 million affordable and available rental units for the nation’s 10.4 million extremely low income (ELI) renter households, those with income at or below 30% of their area median (AMI). Three-quarters of ELI renters are severely cost-burdened, spending more than half of their income on rent and utilities.
- Mapping America’s Rental Housing Crisis: an analysis representing a best estimate of the affordable rental housing gap and federal assistance for extremely low-income (ELI) renter households by county in the United States.
