What's the environment?

It's everything around us: our air and water, the climate, our city's buildings and streets, and the society that we live in. It shapes our lives and our health.

We collect data from many different sources, and we put them together in different ways to show how environments affect health. Explore how here.

Data Stories

Efforts to reduce air pollution should focus on neighborhoods with the worst health impacts.

Every year in NYC between 2015 and 2017 (the most recent years for which …

Staying safe in cold weather

Cold weather can be dangerous. Here are some tips for staying safe this …

ZAPPA: A tool to understand air quality policies

How do we know what air quality policies …

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Key Topics

Core issues that affect our city, our health, our lives.

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Neighborhood Reports

Get data for your neighborhood on select topics:

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Data Explorer

View maps and trends for hundreds of datasets.

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Maps show us what neighborhoods have the most or the least of something.

An example of a trend chart showing data over time.

Trends show us how something has changed over time - if it's going up, going down, or staying stable.

An example of a scatterplot, showing the relationship between two datasets.

And links show us how an environmental factor might be related to a health outcome.

About us

Learn more about the Environment & Health Data Portal, and the Health Department team behind it.

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