By Corinne Ramey
Wall Street Journal
At New York’s Department of City Planning, staff members are bombarded with requests for information about neighborhoods.
“How do you choose when you get a deluge of requests?” said Joseph Salvo, director of the department’s population division. “The demand just keeps coming up. If we don’t do this, we’re going to be buried.”
“This” is a significantly revamped version of a website with a large volume of neighborhood-level census data, which the department released this month.