For this assignment, you will be expected to gather and submit background data about your neighborhood. Consult various sources for data about the neighborhood of your choice listed below.
Indicators that you should be looking at include the racial/ethnic composition of the neighborhood, socioeconomic make-up, age distributions, and other important quantitative indicators. In addition, you should present data on crime and justice.
If it is possible, you should also take a number of photos that would represent the chosen neighborhood and insert those in the Neighborhood Report.
Contents
Background Info:
- New York Neighborhood Data Profiles: https://furmancenter.org/neighborhoods
- NYC Neighborhood Census Data: http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/nyc_data/nbhoods
- New York City: Research and History: http://guides.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/c.php?g=288385&p=1922453
- NYC Census Factfinder: https://popfactfinder.planning.nyc.gov/#11.67/40.7198/-73.9515
- Search for your congressional district: https://census.gov/mycd/
- Google Maps: www.google.com/maps
- NY State data: https://data.ny.gov/
NYC Specific Crime Info:
- Historical NYC crime data: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/crime-statistics/historical.page
- NYC Borough and Precinct crime data: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/crime-statistics/borough-and-precinct-crime-stats.page
- NYC Compstat: https://compstat.nypdonline.org/
- NYC Crime Map: https://maps.nyc.gov/crime/
- NYPD crime data/statistics: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/crime-statistics/crime-statistics-landing.page
- Local incarceration data: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/origin/ny/2020/zipcode.html
