Social Explorer aggregates demographic information from Census data into data maps or tables. Use it to for focused searches on your neighborhood or borough.
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From NYU's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, the database allows users to choose a NYC neighborhood and retrieve data about it in terms of housing units and vacancies, land use, income, school attendance, crime and other factors. The results can then be mapped or charted in various ways. Access is free, but users must register for the site.
This compendium of data, facts and figures over a wide range of fields quantifies many aspects of New York City and, in some cases, the metropolitan region. From the Weissman Center for International Business at Baruch College.
After years of Bloomberg-era declines, the number of traffic-related fatalities in New York has suddenly spiked. Why? Inside the imperfect science of traffic safety. From New York magazine.
