- Some similarities I noticed in the readings of 4.1 and 4.2 are how race and region affect income. I mention this because if you’re from NYC or have lived in NYC for a couple of years now, you’d notice that the subways stop with the highest income are usually predominately white Americans and urban areas, while the places with the lowest or average income are usually POC’s and rural neighborhoods.
- I live in Canarsie, Brooklyn, and using the map in 4.2, I am a little shocked. The reason I’m shocked is because I know that my family’s salary is below what is reported, and how we live and how our home functions made me think that other people in the neighborhood experience the same, but realizing looking from a different perspective I can see how this is true. As I been into plenty of my friends home and realize they live pretty well and seeing nice cars on the block.
- I do notice a general pattern in 4.2 as plenty of trains that are coming from Brooklyn or The Bronx, are usually lower-working class and once it goes into the city (Manhattan) it rises to upper-middle class to upper class.
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Hey Brandon. I made noticed the same trends in your answer to question 1 as well. The neighborhoods with higher incomes tended to be in Manhattan, more urban, and white, while the more suburban neighborhoods in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens that have a larger POC population were typically a lower or more average income. It’s interesting to hear that seeing the information in Reading 4.2 helped you look at your own neighborhood a bit differently based on the income reported for your stop. I had a similar perspective with my neighborhood, though in my case, I’ve seen it build up and turn from a low-to-middle-class area into a wealthy neighborhood between when the data was collected and today. I would love to see an update to the data to reflect income in these areas for the 2020s!