The Effect of Household Income on Street Tree Diversity: A Close Look at Four Brooklyn Neighborhoods

Bianca Costanzo, Ricky Costas-Hernandez, Maliha Azam, Jenna Kuang, Laury Benjamin

we would like to find out whether tree diversity is similar across a subset of four neighborhoods in Brooklyn which differ significantly with regard to the median household income of the residents therein. This is important because trees provide crucial ecosystem services such as filtering air particles and keeping streets cool (Willis and Petrokofsky, 2017). We are interested in exploring the relationship between median household income and tree diversity because tree diversity is important to neighborhood health and quality of life.