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  • Community Level Violent Crime and Incarceration Rates in NYC

    It is interesting to compare the map above with the jail incarceration rate map, below. Source: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/wwl-plan.pdf Free COVID-19 Testing Cayuga wants to get the word out that they are offering free COVID -19 testing at 2183 3rd Avenue on Monday, March 8th, 9:30-4:00

  • Housing Units in New Buildings Since 2010

    Source: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/wwl-plan.pdf Harlem’s Jewish Past The Jewish presence in Harlem before The Depression has given us a number of landmarked structures that have (often) since been converted into churches. One of the most elegant of these buildings is, of course, the Mount Olivet Baptist Church which was once Temple Israel. But Jewish Harlem had more…

  • International Women’s Day Petition

     Get Ready! International Women’s Day (March 8) will be here before we know it! What better way to celebrate and honor the women in your life than to make International Women’s Day a New York State holiday!  The Red Carpet for Justice Coalition needs your help in the campaign to get the New York State Legislature to adopt…

  • White Demographic Increases and Decreases: 1990 – 2016

    The patterns of white New Yorkers since 2016 results in a fascinating map of our city. Downtown/central Brooklyn has seen the largest increases, as has Central Harlem. Meanwhile the neighborhoods where white New Yorkers are leaving, tend to be on the fringes of the city, in lower density communities, and in Queens, in particular. cbhttps://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/wwl-plan.pdf…

  • Jobs Held by New Yorkers Without a Bachelor’s Degree

    From: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/wwl-plan.pdf Support Black Farmers Corbin Hill will be holding two webinars this month on Black farmers in New York State.   There are only 139 Black farmers among the 57,000 in NYS in a $42 billion industry. Feeding the food insecure is noble and necessary but not sufficient.  This series speaks to the struggle and pathways…

  • Diversity and Origins

    New Yorkers come from many different countries. Here is a map of the largest national groups to immigrate and locate in the 5 boroughs. Below are the top 1-5 national groups in NYC: And below is a map of the 6-10th largest national groups in NYC: The clustering is fascinating, and note how Staten Island…

  • Murder, Density, and Cars

    Here are a 3 maps I’ve come across recently. The NYPD maps, of course, murder and other crimes committed throughout the 5 boroughs. As you can see, the data below shows a non-random distribution of murders committed in NYC: This data (the latest available) is a year’s worth, from Oct. 2019 – Oct. 2020. Below…

  • Opioid Treatment Programs 2019/2020

    Our latest data from a 2019/2020 FOIL request to OASAS has yielded this map of the location of Opioid Treatment Programs in the 5 boroughs and their admission totals: Zooming into our neighborhood you can see how OASAS has oversaturated Harlem and East Harlem as well as the South Bronx: Franciscan Handmaids of Mary Motherhouse…

  • HNBA January Meeting – Jan. 12, 7:00 PM

    On Tuesday, January 12th at 7pm, Join HNBA in welcoming: Liz Crotty on who is running for Manhattan DA Ruth McDaniels who is running to replace Bill Perkins on the City Council Valerie Bradley from the Marcus Garvey Park Alliance We hope you’ll be able to attend with questions for the candidates. For the Zoom link, subscribe to…

  • Black Demographic Increases and Decreases: 1990 – 2016

    Black New Yorkers have seen notable losses in population in Manhattan. The most intense increases occurred in southern Brooklyn and Queens, while the largest decreases have been seen in Downtown/Central Brooklyn and in Central Harlem. https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/wwl-plan.pdf

  • Life Expectancy at Birth

    From: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/wwl-plan.pdf Infant Mortality New Home for Silicon Harlem Silicon Harlem – currently located up at 148th Street – is going to have a new home, along with affordable and mixed income housing on West 126th street. The project is called Balton Commons, and is a $19-million mixed-use development currently under construction at 267 West…

  • NYC’s Worst Landlords’ List

    (The Harlem Contributors) Every year around this time there is a listing of the worst landlords in NYC, as determined by HPD complaints. Patch has an article on it: https://patch.com/new-york/harlem/26-harlem-buildings-appear-citys-worst-landlord-watchlist I have taken the worst in Harlem and created a map to illustrate where they are located. Interestingly, the largest grouping is in northern, West…