The Community Parks Initiative is an investment in neighborhood parks that are situated in areas with higher-than-average poverty and that have historically received inadequate maintenance and development.
NYC Recovery and Resiliency projects seek to boost the ability of parklands to withstand disruptive events such as extreme weather. The High Performace Landscape Guidelines support a strategy to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change through the green infrastructure benefits of absorbing stormwater, reducing the urban heat island effect, and increasing habitat.
This mapping project displays CPI Zone and Parks property data utilizing Neighborhood Tabulation Areas as the unit of measure. Resiliency projects are displayed as points. Click on a park, neighborhood, or project point to pull up more information.
To geographically present NYC Parks initiatives, such as CPI Zones and Walk-to-a-Park Service Areas, while exploring demographic and economic statistics.
Identify neighborhoods with greatest need
Identify Parks initiatives and progress
To identify walkability to parks, I used a shapefile of a combined buffer analysis (half-mile to larger parklands and a quarter-mile to smaller parks) which was mapped thematically to the Neighborhood Tabulation Areas using Carto's "intersect and aggregate" analysis tool. Polygon color was measured by value density and exported as a GEO JSON.
For the Resiliency Projects, I used Carto's "filter by column" analysis to select only those projects managed by the NYC Parks Department and styled the points' changes by zoom level.
This project was created by Jonathan Kovacs. Jonathan is an Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management graduate student at The New School. He is interested in maps, distributed energy resources, and loud drums.
Click on the map to show how many parks are within walking distance of that point: