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They concentrated on schools because, given how densely populated New York City is, a 2006 study that was cited suggested that schools may be a significant source of exposure to BC and PM2.5 because they are frequently situated close to busy roads and heavy truck routes. in which "6.4 million US children attended schools within 250 m of a major ...
The drawing of school districts is rooted in real estate redlining, a form of lending discrimination against Black families that began in the 1930s. Banks in the U.S. denied mortgages to people of ...
New York City accounts for only 1% of United States greenhouse gas emissions while housing 2.7% of its population. [2] In September 2012, New York was named the #1 "America's Dirtiest City," by a Travel+Leisure readership survey that rated the environmental quality of 35 prominent cities in the United States.
Ronald Chaluisan, the executive director of the nonprofit think thank Newark Trust for Education, says the digital divide is the modern-day version of redlining, the discriminatory practice that ...
The lack of investment in neighborhood infrastructure and amenities have resulted in communities of color living in areas far hotter than those of their white neighbors.
The concept of digital redlining is an extension of the practice of redlining in housing discrimination, [2] [3] a historical legal practice in the United States and Canada dating back to the 1930s where red lines were drawn on maps to indicate poor and primarily black neighborhoods that were deemed unsuitable for loans or further development ...
An obscure 47-year-old law designed to right the historic wrongs of redlining was the ‘original ESG framework,’ execs say. Just look at how Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy have changed Dylan Sloan
The New York Times ran an article on October 12, 2010, "Lauded Harlem Schools Have Their Own Problems", [35] in which they exposed the "low student performance in most of the neighborhood's public schools" and the dismissal, by the board of trustees, of an entire class of 8th graders when their performance was deemed "too weak to found a high ...