Gothamist: Map of the Day: Sick Hospitals

Opportunity Agenda

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:26:45 -0500

To address "nutbag's" comment about the hospitals - there is no propaganda going on here. All our data comes from the New York State Department of Public Health and their SPARCS data set. While I don't know the exact date of the closures of Peck and Boulevard, they most likely closed right around 1985 or soon there after. that is why they are "active" in the 1985 data, but closed every decade thereafter. 20 years ago IS a long time, but it is within the scope of our map, which attempts to show two decades worth of trends.

Jonas Cord

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:36:05 -0500

It's not a mashup, it's a map.

Nutbag

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:06:56 -0500

There's a bit of propaganda at play here, at least two of the hospitals listed as closed have been closed for an extremely long time (boulvard in queens, Peck in brooklyn), and a few other hospitals seem to be missing entirely.

Will

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:52:29 -0500

Hey Jake - thanks for the shout out!