01_Evaluating Amenity Access

FALL / 2022
For GIS
With Letti Campos

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           With trends in New York City policy tending towards the reduction of vehicles, this project imagines a speculative New York City that is vehicle-less and asks the following three questions:

1. Which neighborhoods will be most “livable”? Which neighborhoods are the most amenity-dense, considering healthcare, education, food markets, parks?
2. Which are the most underserved?
3. Are there demographic patterns between the most and least “livable” neighborhoods? If so, what are they?

Using methods of GIS, we gathered 12 sets of publicly available data to create a series of maps, both as process and product, to answer our research question. Below are pages from our report. Our analysis identified two specific areas that are particularly underserved, and it is our recommendation for these areas receive expanded amenity access to better support their residents, whom are mostly Hispanic with an average household income of less than $65K. However, the research also found most of our study area well-served in terms of amenity density. We are pleased to conclude that for the most part, New York City is a very livable city, even outside of subway transit lines. These quantitative analysis can hopefully quell concerns and hesitation against the new policies that place pedestrians and airquality above vehicle use.