Parks, NYC

Mapping the proportion of parks in New York

Methods

Parks data is represented in a geojson that was downloaded from NYC Open Data.

The data includes: - park name and location - the type of park listed ie garden, playground, waterfront - the size of the park in acres

The types of park, Lot, Undeveloped, and Buildings and Institutions were removed from the data to more closely focus the data on greenspace availibility. A waterfront park data set was also created to show proportion of developed waterfront areas accross all boroughs.

Results

The tables display that Brooklyn has the most parks out of all boroughs, Queens has the second most, Manhattan and the Bronx are very similar and Staten Island has the least parks. When the data is filtered to only display waterfront parks, it becomes clear that the Bronx has faced disinvestment from the city in developing its waterfront for recreational use. The Bronx has 2 waterfront parks compared to the average across all five boroughs of 8.4 waterfront parks.

ALL PARKS

Summary statistics For all parks across all NYC boroughs

Chart showing all parks across all NYC boroughs

WATERFRONT PARKS

Summary statistics For all waterfront parks across all NYC boroughs

Chart showing waterfront parks across all NYC boroughs