Category: Maps
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One Bedroom Heat Map
Zumper.com has a new heat map out that identifies the most/least expensive parts of Manhattan to rent a one-bedroom. The most expensive neighborhoods are Chelsea – $5,120 Tribecca – $5,000 Nolita, East Village, and Lower East Side – $4,890 Inwood – $1,735 Washington Heights – $2000 East Harlem – $2,355 To see the detailed heat…
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High School Graduates
How Calculated: Estimated number of people 25 years and over who have completed High School (Includes Equivalency), divided by the total number of people 25 years and over; expressed as percent. Source: American Community Survey Koch and Co Ephemeral New York has a great article on the stately building, and former department store on 125th street…
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Why Can’t We Have Nice Things?
Flushing has found a way to honor our forefathers and mothers who were buried in an African American and First Peoples cemetery – now a park. This location was used as a public burial ground starting as early as 1840, with over 1,000 individuals buried there until 1898. The new memorial wall includes the name…
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Photoville in Harlem
Photoville – an annual outdoor celebration of photography has a couple of sites in Harlem: Location number 8 on the map (above) is on the esplanade walking and biking path along the East River, between 97th and 98th Streets. The photography represents an afro-futurist vision of presence in an imagined, retro future. The images are…
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Porgy and Bess
The Metropolitan Opera is pleased to offer a 15% discount on tickets to PORGY & BESS to Harlem residents. Please use the code GERSHWIN15 at check out. Tickets and information can be found here: https://www.metopera.org/season/2021-22-season/porgy-and-bess/ The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess Don’t miss the return of the Met’s landmark staging of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, which won universal…
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Limited English
How Calculated: Estimated number of people who do not speak English at home and are not English Proficent, divided by the total population; expressed as percent. Source: American Community Survey We Are All New Yorkers Uptown Grand Central writes: Yo yo here we go! So glad to be a part of TOGETHER, WE ARE NEW YORKalong with creatives from other…
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View the HNBA November Meeting
Our November 9th HNBA meeting is now available to view: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hw0239ynnvnoikt/HNBA%20Nov21.mp4?dl=0 Opioid Injection Site Opens on East 126th Street Mayor De Blasio promised to begin opening opioid injection sites where people can find a safe space to inject illegal drugs, and now his promise has been fulfilled in East Harlem. Corner Resources quietly opened a…
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Incarceration Rates
How Calculated: Crude rate of of incarcerated adults in NYC Department of Correction facilities per 1,000 population ages 18 and older. Addresses at admission to New York City Department of Correction facilities were geocoded; 69% of all records could be geocoded to a valid NTA. Data were limited to those ages 18 years of age…
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Foreign Born
How Calculated: Estimated number of people born outside the US or its territories (which includes Puerto Rico), divided by the total population; expressed as a percent. Source: American Community Survey Ginjan Cafe Featured Ginjan Cafe was featured in a story about the history of the cafe, the incredible effort by the Diallos, and their hope for…
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Households with Someone Who Uses Electric Medical Equipment
How Calculated: Estimated number of households reporting someone using electric medical equipment; expressed as percent. Source: New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey (HVS) A Sign of Our Times A month or two ago I thought this sign for Unk’s Place with a masked Unk, is the kind of image that historians will be able to…
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Court Ordered Evictions
How Calculated: Rate of executed evictions ordered by the New York City Housing Court, including those pending and scheduled as of December 31, per 10,000 housing units. Eviction data are reported by New York City Marshals and gathered from NYC Open Data. For more information, see: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Evictions/6z8x-wfk4 Source: New York City Department of Investigation Odyssey House on East 126 Advances…
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Children Tested With Elevated Lead
How Calculated: Number of children less than 6 years old tested in a given year with blood lead levels of 15 mcg/dL or greater, divided by the number of children less than 6 years old who were tested for lead poisoning in a given year; expressed as cases per 1,000 tested. The numbers in this table…
