The Toxic Brooklyn Map

Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG) is a North Brooklyn based grouping working to recapture the Greenpoint as well as Williamsburg waterfront as well as trim local environmental hazard. As business office of this mission NAG has created an interactive map of toxic hot spots inwards Greenpoint as well as Williamsburg.

The ToxiCity Map highlights potentially polluted sites inwards North Brooklyn spell too providing information layers on neighborhood characteristics, such every 2nd population density as well as asthma infirmary visits inwards the area. The information is organized into 3 top dog categories: environmental risks, neighborhood characteristics as well as industrial history.

The environmental risks category contains 3 information layers: potentially polluted sites, hereafter overflowing run a risk as well as waste matter transfer stations. Any of these information layers tin endure combined alongside the neighborhood characteristics data. So, for example, yous tin overlay the population density layer on altitude of the potentially polluted sites to encounter how many people are living in potentially polluted areas.