NUMBERS OF NEW YORK

One way to understand a metric-driven city is through the numbers. With the vast amount of data collection in New York City, our team parsed through databases to show how the city’s environment, traffic, gun violence, food prices and tourism marketing affect you.

How Polluted Is the City?

We mapped the city’s 101 neighborhoods by their air quality, per the Environmental Protection Agency standard, and identified the most severely polluted areas.

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of the city's neighborhoods are highly polluted

The Racial Skew in City Gun Violence

A deep dive into the last 10 years of shootings in New York City sheds light on the magnitude of gun violence in the black community and its adverse effects on mental health.

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of victims over the last decade were black

Fewer Cars, But at What Cost?

A calculator based on a proposed congestion tax in Manhattan could help drivers of passenger vehicles estimate the potential cost of their commute into the borough.

dollars could be the max annual fare

The Cost of Being Vegetarian Differs by Neighborhood

We compared the cost of a plant-based diet in low, middle and high-income neighborhoods following the city’s plan for “Meatless Mondays” in public schools.

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price difference between SoHo and Hunts Point

How New Yorkers Describe Their Homes

Our parsing of Airbnb data shows how New York City residents describe their homes to potential renters, revealing the most-used adjectives for each borough.

listings show that "cozy" is the top descriptor