NYC Environment and Health Data Portal

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Description

Web tool providing information on neighborhood built environment, asthma, climate, housing, and outdoor air, intended to show how environments affect health.

Questions this resource can help answer

What are air quality conditions and health impacts in my NYC neighborhood?

What are other other environmental, climate, and health factors that might affect vulnerability to air pollution in my NYC neighborhood?’

How can I design a web data portal that provides neighborhood level information on air pollution and vulnerability?

How do I use this resource?

This web tool allows you to see information about environmental and health conditions in New York City neighborhoods. You can generate reports for five different domains, including built environment (Active design), asthma, climate, housing, and outdoor air. The outdoor air domain includes information about recent levels of criteria pollutants, emissions from heating fuels, air toxics, traffic density, and health burdens from PM2.5 and ozone. Reports also include population and demographic information. Select a neighborhood to see a detailed report. Within the report, you can click on an air pollution indicator to get additional details including its relative ranking compared to other neighborhoods.

Pro tips

You can get a complete dataset of pollutants for all neighborhoods by clicking on “Full dataset in the lower right hand corner of the indicator report.

Resource information

Resource owner

Government

Format

Website

Backup URL

Update Frequency

Real-time

Geographic Coverage

county, Local (city, municipality), New York

Technical specifications

Methodology

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