Geographic Information System (GIS) Maps

WE ACT has produced 31 GIS maps designed to assist us in further accomplishing our goal to bring about a "green and clean" Northern Manhattan. The maps chronicle such elements as polluting facilities and childhood asthma hospitalizations, the diesel bus pollution corellation, waterfront property ownership and existing marine waste transfer and handling facilities. Access our GIS maps by clicking on any of the links below for each map and its corresponding metadata, or click any of the pictures to the right to go directly to a PDF version of each map.  

Maps Generated Around Air Quality Issues

1. Polluting Facilities and Childhood Asthma Hospitalizations in 1996
2. Polluting Facilities and Childhood Asthma Hospitalizations in 2000
3. The Asthma-Diesel Connection
4. MTA Diesel Bus Depots in Communities of Color 
5. MTA Diesel Bus Depots & PA Bus Terminals in Communities of Color
6. The Diesel Bus Pollution Correlation
7.1990 Diesel Particulate Matter Concentrations Among the American Northeastern States (by Census Tract)
8. Asthma Discharge Rates per 10,000 Residents for 1999

Maps Generated with WEACT Around Waterfront Development & Waterfront Access Issues:

 

9. Existing Marine Waste Transfer and Handling Facilities 
10. Waterfront Property Ownership

Maps Generated with the Columbia Center For Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) around Quality of Life Issues:

11. Percent of Persons Under the Age of 17

12. Percent of Single Parent Families

13. Percent of Births to Women Under The Age of 18

14. Percent of Persons Separated or Divorced

15. Median Household Income

16. Percent of Persons Below the Poverty Level

17. Percent of Persons Living in the Same House in 1985

18. Percent of Foreign-Born Population

19. Percent of Work Force Unemployed

20. Percent of Hispanic Population

21. Percent African American (Non-Hispanic)

22. Percent of Housing Units with Less Than One Person Per Room

23. Percent of Vacant Housing Units

24. Percent of Persons 25 Years Old And Over Without a High School Diploma

25. Percent of Low Birth Weights (Less Than 2,500grams [5.5 pounds])

Maps Generated with Inform, Inc. for the National Alternative Fuels Day and Environmental Summit (April 2002):

26. Asthma Hospitalization Rates by Neighborghood Children Aged 0-14, New York City, 2000

Maps Generated with the Northeastern States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) around Air Quality Issues:

27. 1990 Diesel Particulate Matter (PM) Concentrations Across Connecticut's Census Tracts

28. 1990 Diesel Particulate Matter (PM) Concentrations Across Connecticut's Census Tracts (Hartford County)

29. 1990 Diesel Particulate Matter (PM) Concentrations Across Maine's Census Tracts

30. 1990 Diesel Particulate Matter (PM) Concentrations Across Maine's Census Tracts (Lower One-Third)

Maps Generated for South Bronx Clean Air Coalition:

31. South Bronx Environmental Scope

 

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