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Whilst surfing around on Flickr this morning we came across an amazing set of maps by Qaanaaq-- "GIS maps of stuff I think is interesting. Made mostly with ArcGIS 9 and Illustrator." The map above documents how people get to work in the five boroughs-- blue is public transit, red is cars, and green is walking. Similar data is mapped in different colors here-- it's strange how so many people use public transit in Red Hook. Related transit maps: proximity to subways (don't move to Eastern Queens and Southern Brooklyn if you want to commute by rail-- you'll definitely need a car).
Qaanaaq has also mapped a lot of housing and demographic information-- here are links to a bunch of them:
-- NYU properties around Washington Square (they own everything!)
-- home ownership in NYC (lots of people still rent!)
-- rental values in Brooklyn (Brownstone Brooklyn is expensive!)
-- race in the five boroughs and in Brooklyn (still really segregated)
-- household income (Manhattan is very rich, but so is Staten Island).
Great stuff! If you want to see more, check out all 94 posts in our NYC maps archive.
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why is it "strange how so many people use public transit in Red Hook"?
maybe a quick look at the corresponding income map would illustrate why public transportation is so heavily relied upon.
Is it just me or does the first map show almost no public transit for red hook besides one tiny blue cluster, but the Flickr one is all solid green. What gives?
there is almost no public transit for red hook.
there's 2 bus lines. that's all adam.
and all those people from the green map take it to the train.
one map shows the amount of transportation and the other map shows the number of people using it. two different variables.
and OP why is it strange that most people use public transportation in red hook? 70% of the neighborhood lives in the projects and 45% lives under the poverty line. there ain't a lot of cars per person floating around here.
"don't move to Eastern Queens and Southern Brooklyn if you want to commute by rail-- you'll definitely need a car)."
What ever happened to two-fare travel? bus to a subway and then another subway. As far as I know, in Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and many areas in the North East Bronx (where I live) commuters have chosen to ride the express bus and then walk or take the subway once in Manhattan.
-Might want to revise the text in the link.