Justice
Measuring a Neighborhood's Green Spaces So They Can Grow
One New York City neighborhood had basically given up on open space. But thanks to some new data, they were able to advocate for it, and get it.
Stand at the corner of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue, to take a random intersection in New York’s East Harlem neighborhood, and you wouldn’t have a clue that you are within a 10-minute walk of one of the world’s great urban open spaces in one direction (Central Park) and a beautiful waterfront esplanade in the other (the walkway that runs along the East River).
Instead, you would see asphalt, concrete, and treeless streets in every direction.