INVESTIGATE NYC
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  • INVESTIGATE NYC HOME
  • Look Up Your Local (and State and Federal) Elected Officials
  • What Do Your Elected Officials Do?
  • Find Your Districts
  • Community Boards: What They Are, Find Yours
  • Visualize 311 Data: Citywide, Borough-Wide, In Your District & On Your Block
  • Look Up Neighborhood Crime Stats (For This Week/This Year/From 1990) + Map Neighborhood Crime + Find Amazing Vinatge Crime Pics
  • How Old Is Your Building? And Who Owns It? (And Alternatively, Who Owns That Boarded-Up Rat Trap or Vacant Lot Down The Street?)
  • Look Up Your Building's Open Violations
  • Who's Actually in Charge of the LLC that Owns Your Building? (Also: Locate a Scan of the Actual Deed)
  • Look Up Neighborhood Air Quality... If You Dare
  • Locate Nearby Superfunds, Brownfields, Toxic Release Sites, Significant Sources of Air Pollution, More
  • Chart STD & Communicable Disease Rates by Borough, Neighborhood
  • New Yorkers On Their Own Health, Mental Health, Sexual Activity and Bad Habits
  • Find a Photo of Your Home From the Big Bad '80s
  • Look Up Capital Projects Near You (Or: the Strange Case of the Rampant Remediations)
  • Map The "Green Infrastructure" Projects In Your Neighborhood
  • Who Lived in Your Building & On Your Block Back in 1940? Where Were They From? What Did They Do?
  • Birth Rates, Death Trends in Your Neighborhood, Borough
  • Census Data: Neighborhood Population Broken Down by Age, Sex, Ethnicity, More, 2010 & 2000
  • Look Up Neighborhood Income, Poverty Rates, Educational Profile, More
  • See James Baldwin & Family in the 1940 Census
  • Rat Inspections: Your Building, Neighborhood
  • About This Site, Contact
  • Neighborhood Joint Assignment
LOOK UP NEIGHBORHOOD AIR QUALITY, ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS
Generating an air quality report about your own neighborhood is easy: simply click here, choose a topic from the drop down menu (for example, "Asthma and the Environment" or "Outdoor Air and Health"), then input your zip code or click your neighborhood on the map -- that's it, a report will pop up. I definitely recommend creating an “Outdoor Air” report: it’ll include a breakdown of specific air pollutants (definitions here), estimated rates of related hospitalizations, and you'll see how your neighborhood stacks up to the rest of your borough, and to NYC in total. Example: I chose "Outdoor Air," then chose my neighborhood, and like magic, this thorough (and horrifying) neighborhood report popped up. Brief excerpt below:
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Data for these neighborhood reports come from New York City's Department of Health & Mental Hygiene's "Environment & Health Portal," which in fact contains a variety of data (not just data pertaining to air quality). To generally explore portal data: simply go to the portal homepage, click "Environmental Data" (the green box), or the "Health, Behavior, and Population Data" (the blue box) -- and just start looking around. Here's a short, very straightforward tutorial about exploring exploring portal data. You can also do keyword searches for environmental/health topics of particular interest: for example,  "asthma," "pesticides," etc.
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